Why did Elisabeth Shue's career go straight down the shitter?

She cray. When she went to Harvard she used to wander around Cambridge, talking to herself. Very bag-lady-esque. There were other stories but I can't remember them now.

She went to Harvard?

Are you confusing her with her Soapdish character?

She aged out and she was in some duds (The Saint, Hollow Man)

She has an annoying face.

She could be very charming and winning in many roles, but I'm not sure if she had much range.

The light is soooo bright, black jack on a Saturday night! Surviving coronavirus!!! (Oh wait it’s leaving Las Vegas but I need to more relevant.)

The light is soooo bright, black jack on a Saturday night! Surviving coronavirus!!! (Oh wait it’s leaving Las Vegas but I need to more relevant.)

No, I'm not confused.

As a kid out of high school she went to Welleseley. At some point she transferred from Wellesley to Harvard and then she left early but I think she may have only had a semester left. She went back to finish the semester and get her degree after she was a famous actress when the charm of Hollywood wore thin. That's where the "she walks around town and talks to herself like a bag-lady" story came from, her later stint at college. I don't actually know if she managed to finish the second time.

If it's any consolation, she did better than her brother!

I got the feeling her family was wealthy, or at least upper middle class, and she is married to Davis Guggenheim, a director and I think also a son of upper middle class or wealthy. She may not want/need to work.

Soapdish is a fabulous movie, with perfect performances from everybody, even people who are bad in other stuff. Sally Field Carrie Fisher, Cathy Moriority, Terri Hatcher, some marginal soap hunk who was still funny in what he was called upon to do, Kevin Kline, Whoopie Goldberg, Robert Downey Jr., Gary freaking Marshall, Kathy Njimy. Only one bad performance and that was Elizabeth Shue. Yes, she was the "straight woman" but she also turns diva and she played it no differently than if she was in a serious movie. No timing, no flair, no energy..

I believe she was in serious contention for the lead in The Good Wife but declined due to the shooting location. If she had taken the part she might have won an Emmy and got a cosmetics campaign out of it.

Shue, Elizabeth. Hygienically challenged. Has begun acting increasingly erratic; "very cold and aloof to fans." "Nasty disposition." Linked with Val Kilmer. Posed/poses for naughty pictures.

That’s the vintage gossip.

I liked “Cousin Bette” but she was terrible in it.

Her eyebrows. They just didn't work...

I really wished instead of shitter we would use the term “Crapper” and honor this very distinguished man. For god’s sake he is the person who invented the floating ballcock. Why did so and so’s career go straight down the crapper” has a wonderful ring to it. For your consideration on the next crash and burn thread.

She probably either took time off to have kids and could never get back or she wouldn't fuck Weinstein.

Shue, Sharon Stone and M all competed for Best Actress in 1996. And in the last decade, Shue and Stone were reduced to bit parts in movies in which M was the star.

Of the three of them M is obviously the better actress.

Because her brother was into too much drama living on Melrose.

R20 Andrew looked so good on the Melrose reunion show they had last week on the Youtube. I don’t think he was a troubled sibling like a Kristy, a Justine or a Philip.

She graduated from Harvard in 2000. She is from a wealthy family. Her dad was president of a company and her mom was a bank executive.

She was already in her mid-30s when Leaving Las Vegas hit. Her follow-ups weren't very good. She did better on TV, she was a cast member on CSI for the last few years.

Well it’s questionable for her to fall back on babysitting if she doesn’t find work as an actor.

She, Lea Thompson and Sarah Michelle Gellar were all in a Burger King commercial before they hit the big time.

Because she spells her name with an S instead of a Z.

She auditioned for the Ione Skye role in Say Anything... (1989), being a runner-up along with Jennifer Connelly.

She was one of several Hollywood actresses considered for the role of Vivian Ward in Pretty Woman (1990), portrayed by Julia Roberts.

She auditioned for the Sherilyn Fenn role in Of Mice and Men (1992)

She was slated for the Adrienne Shelly role in Teresa's Tattoo (1994). (read in edition of Film Review magazine in 1994)

She was considered for the Anne Heche role in The Third Miracle (1999).

She was originally cast in The Number 23 (2007) but was let go due to her third pregnancy and replaced by Virginia Madsen.

She was tapped to reunite with Val Kilmer in The Hard Ride in 2007. The film was also to star Karl Urban whom she would later star alongside in The Boys (2019 TV series).

She was offered the lead role in The Good Wife (2009-2016) with the role finally going to Julianna Margulies.

She was slated as series regular for TV series Pitch (2016) but departed and was replaced by Ali Larter.

She has expressed ambivalence appearing in Cobra Kai, reprising her role, Ali, from the original 1984 film The Karate Kid. The series serves as a continuation of the original films.

In 2019, Shue took a leading role in the American superhero drama television series, The Boys, with Karl Urban and Jack Quaid, and will be playing the lead role in the TNT television pilot Constance, playing a corrupt former beauty queen. In the latter she will also be one of the executive producers along with Robert Downey Jr. (whom she previously co-starred with in Soapdish and Heart and Souls) and his wife Susan Downey among others. Constance is not going forward to series so remains to be seen it the pilot will air as a television movie.

She has already filmed Greyhound opposite Tom Hanks, to be released in 2020.

If you read her Wiki page, it doesn't look like her career went down the shitter. She's been working steadily for years. She just didn't become a household name and face.

R26 That makes me sad, Hollywood is a hard place.

R25, yes. Elisabeths with that form of spelling tend to be unfortunate cases.

R26, is she appearing in Cobra Kai Season 3?

R31. See the last sentence of R26.

I offered to give her the lowdown on how to make it big in this town..... after I went down on her town while touching myself to get big. Stupid bitch ran. Now, who’s the sorry one?

Didn't she or Ralph Macchio reveal that they didn't really get along during Karate Kid? I thought I remembered reading that she was kind of a bully to him.

R34, she was way mismatched for him as a romantic interest in Karate Kid. Like Leo and Kate Winslet in Titanic.

I remember hearing that her family called her Lisa. I never really understood nicknames. If you wanted to call your daughter Lisa, why didn't you just name her that?

She couldn't deal with having a prettier brother.

Because Broadway doesn’t go for booze and dope! Now get outta my way,—I gotta guy waitin for me.

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She was better than Cage in Leaving Las Vegas. Her role is actually harder than his. She's the one who has to be sober for 2 hours. DL fave Sue Sarandon has her Oscar.

Just as Natalie Wood is the only wood that couldn't float, Elisabeth Shue is the only shue you can flush straight down the shitter!

I remember that story in Rick James' book about he and Elisabeth hanging out on an LA beach at night snorting cocaine and talking about everything under the sun. He said she was educated in everything. This was around 1984/1985.

Isn’t she rather a similar age and type to Jennifer Jason Leigh?

Rachel McAdams reminds me Elisabeth Shue in terms of her acting.

Dear Angelique... Dear Angelique...

In terms of Hollywood, the Shue simply doesn't fit.

I remember being shocked when she turned up in a guest starring arc on 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' several years back. It was such a throw-away role, but perhaps she and Larry David are friends or something. Either way, I thought to myself that she had certainly fallen from great heights of being a movie star to popping in to cameo on a sitcom.

I adore her. The latest thing I saw her in, was "Hamlet 2", which I really enjoyed. My favorite of her films, is "Adventures In Babysitting".

She end up being in crap movies like Piranha 3D and House At The End Of The Street playing fat Jennifer Lawrence's mom

Elisabeth was in the last two episodes of Cobra Kai this season and I have to say, she was radiant.

She was a chubby, snotty bitch. That's why her career went down the shitter.

She’s shitting all over Celeste

Watching Cocktail now as a Tom Cruise joke but she definitely has an ease in front of the camera. It's clear why she would have done well as a junior actor but not really have the talent to take it to the next level.

I'm watching Cocktail too! It's on HULU and it's terrible

She was great in The Boys

I get the feeling that acting was never a big passion for her.

I was always distracted how she seemed to'lead with her chin', as in jut it out when she was supposed to be dramatic.

According to Timothy Busfield, she and Anthony Edwards were dating during the filming of the first or second Revenge of the Nerds movie (i want to say it was the original).

I like how she shades Karate Kid, Ralph Macchio and Cocktail in certain interviews.

I've always loved Shue but she could never be sexy with her boxy/manly figure. She was more manly and athletic than Andrew. That is fo sho.

Years were kinder to her than they were to her baby brother. I admire Andrew for deciding to age naturally but he has under eye wrinkles of a 90-year old.

R61 My gawd she looks terrible. No wonder her wife dropped her for sexy TJ Holmes.