Audio problem: On the bridge, sounds of a nearby boat can be heard; however, a boat is never actually seen nearby, nor any lights on the water.

Annie (1982)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: John Huston
Starring: Tim Curry, Albert Finney, Bernadette Peters, Carol Burnett, Ann Reinking, Aileen Quinn
Miss Hannigan becomes a better orphanage director. So the Hudson Street Orphanage is made a better, a cleaner and a warmer home for the minor Hudson Street orphan girls.
Annie: Leaping lizards!
Question: Question regarding the search for Annie's parents: When Mr. Warbucks launches the nationwide search for Annie's parents using the best legal and investigative minds of the day, should they not have discovered that said parents died in a fire? The authorities somehow knew there was an abandoned child and where to send the parents' "junk", and Miss Hannigan was informed of the deaths. Obviously, someone knew Annie was at the orphanage and whose child she was. How did Warbucks' top notch team of private eyes miss that?





Answer: Miss Hannigan's box of Annie's parents' things might have the only record of her birth certificate. This is the 1930s, after all. Paper records went missing all the time.
Captain Defenestrator