War of the Worlds (2005, Tom Cruise).
YES! Just leave the absolutely positively dead son out of it. You can’t show all that death and destruction (human gore fertilizing entire plains?) and then say, “But, oh, *perfectly* happy ending.”
Incidentally, that’s one “ending” LOTR: ROTK *did* leave out: “The Rousting of the Shire,” wherein we learn of the sad effects of Mordor’s domination
The Swimmer, Burt Lancaster, 1968