I actually enjoyed this movie just not so much for the ending, but I suppose Mickey Rooney wanted to stress that greed for money can't help you find your dreams costing Taggart his whole family. What was especially fun was seeing all the old actors possibly in their last performance one after the other. And also finding Randy Travis and Larry Gatlin to be pretty fair actors although they didn't get to sing until the closing credits. You might say the movie is a cross between "Of Mice and Men" and "Unforgiven".
