Movies that ended careers

You know the one.

Mommie Dearest

Catwoman

John Carter - Taylor Kitsch

Goin' Coconuts -- Donny and Marie Osmond

25 million dollars' worth of film and no movie

Elizabeth Berkley - Showgirls

Fron nowhere to oblivion

r7 see r1

WSS 2021

Jill Clayburgh and the tedious stink bomb Luna (1979)

Terribly miscast in the lead role as an incestuous opera diva, I’m sure Jill jumped at the chance to work with Bertolucci but the movie ended up bogged down with unearned pretension and plodding storytelling. No it didn’t end her career overnight but it did nothing to help it. After this it was the very middling It’s My Turn and then basically no longer a prominent leading lady

J Low's film career

The Color Purple 2023

Jill in the R11 poster doesn't even look like that in the film where she has long hair.

Bobby Deerfield ended Marthe Keller's Hollywood career

I think Hanna K ended Jill's A career. Pity as she looks very beautiful in the Israeli locations.

The Love Guru = Mike Myers

Son of the Mask = Jamie Kennedy

Rollerball = Chris Klein

Michael Beck in Xanadu.

To quote him: "The Warriors opened a lot of doors in film, for me, which Xanadu then closed."

Marthe Keller is/was one of the most unappealing and boring “stars” ever… I love 60s/70s cinema so I’ve sat through too many otherwise compelling films that she nearly ruined (Marathon Man and Black Sunday especially). I guess you “had to be there,” but any appeal that she has/had whatsoever is lost on me.

Madonna in Swept Away.

Heather Locklear in The Return Of Swamp Thing

Valerie Bertinelli in C.H.O.M.P.S.

They're both lucky that network TV welcomed them back into the fold.

r11 I never heard about Luna. There aren't too many incest themed films as far as I know.

r23 Much to my surprise (and delight) Conrad Bain also stars in C.H.O.M.P.S. Looks like it might be an amusing watch. Maybe Connie B shows some skin...

She’s actually not a bad actress! She’s definitely a character actress if you’ve seen “The Butler” and “Precious” but she definitely is not a leading lady.

I wish Carey had made about 5 more movies. She was pretty good.

This movie kicked off the end of Matt Damon’s movie star career. “The Great Wall”, “Downsizing”, and “Suburbicon” all bombed.

Uma Thurman in Motherhood. Either that, or My Super Ex-Girlfriend.

Don't even get me started on Linda Blair and Ron Eldard.

R21 Marthe Keller was also in Billy Wilder's Fedora. Not sure you had to be there since her career never took off though I thought she was effective in Black Sunday.

Daisy Ridley in The Rise of Skywalker

Klinton Spilsbury - "The Lone Ranger."

Marthe Keller has a reasonably sized supporting role in the 1998 Isabelle Huppert film The School of Flesh.

It’s pretty surprising Uma Thurman is not more regarded given that Kill Bill 1&2 are some of the most popular movies of the last 50 years, not to mention Pulp Fiction. It remains quite bizarre that Uma did not get nominated for any of them, especially with Harvey in his heyday. Perhaps she’s just not embraced by Hollywood and/or didn’t “play the game” with Harvey at the time.

R29 - Ron Eldard made two bad choices. He shit his pants in the 1999 The Runner and he played a cross-dressing gay in the 2005 Fathers and Sons.

Clayburgh turned down Norma Rae to do Luna something she later admitted was a huge mistake. The production was chaotic from the beginning with an unfinished script.

was Jill too urban for Norma Rae?

Mia Sara in Legend.

From the mini-series Lace, to the girlfriend of Ferris Bueller, then this tripe and oblivion.

Oops, that was Phoebe Cates in Lace. My bad.

Phoebe Cates married Kevin Kline and retired.

Some actors don't even need a whole movie to end a career...

[quote]was Jill too urban for Norma Rae?

They told her they would reset it in Soho.

The main reason the A listers turned down Norma Rae was $. The budget was too low. Sally was cheap.

Eric Roberts in The Coca-Cola Kid.

Warren Beatty in Bulworth.

Sherilyn Fenn in Fatal Instinct.

There's so many more that were building momentum in movies and one bomb sent them back to TV. Now that movies are streaming and are no longer straight-to-video, they're making several crappy movies a year that no one sees. (Mickey Rourke, James Remar, Nicholas Cage,etc.)

Brandon Routh

"Town & Country" ended Warren Beatty's career more than "Bulworth" did, R44. "Town & Country" had a huge budget because the film was reshot several times, and it still ended up being terrible.

R46 that POS cost $90M

Billy Eichner

Welcome to Mooseport.

r22 No movie ended Madonna's movie career. She never had a movie career.

Actually, Madonna did have a movie career: Dick Tracy, A League of Their Own, Evita, Desperately Seeking Susan, Body of Evidence, Snake Eyes . . . 2002s Swept Away ended her career

Exorcist II -- Linda Blair

As soon as her chubby ass started tap-dancing, it was all over!

I came to post what R20 did.

Michael Beck was hot shit after The Warriors. After Xanadu, he was unemployable.

Sorry R51, but Madonna has only ever made sporadic films that were mostly unsuccessful, and her status as a musical juggernaut is what has allowed her to keep trying after every failure.

She only did well in ensemble casts in which her lack of acting talent could be hidden by limiting her onscreen presence (A League Of Their Own, Desperately Seeking Susan, Bloodhounds of Broadway, Blue In The Face), or when her clumsy overacting didn't matter because she basically had to play a caricature (Dick Tracy, Who's That Girl). Every time she's tried to be a serious actress and the majority of the focus was on her, everything turned out to be a disaster.

Also, she's done 14 proper films in a 40-year-long career. That is an embarrassingly limited filmography for "a star".

^ Just to add, none of those movies made or broke her "career". Madonna's success and/or failure had nothing to do with her movies

R7 I've never seen so many poles mistreated since World War 2!

[quote]Sherilyn Fenn in Fatal Instinct.

In 1993, I think it was BOXING HELENA rather than FATAL INSTINCT that ended Sherilyn Fenn's career.

They were both released around the same time in the fall, but HELENA was just too damn weird and creepy and flopped the hardest.

Not to mention, HELENA was a shit show behind the scenes that had bankrupted Kim Basinger, who was originally signed to star but pulled out at the last minute and was taken to court by the filmmakers where she lost and had to pay an exorbitant fine.

Music/Sia

When I first saw it I wanted Michael Beck in The Warriors to ride my horny twink ass and cum on my face

The Wiz- Diana Ross. She talked Berry into doing this . Critical flip.

MADONNA IS A MOVIE KILLER!

Patti Horse face LuPony is the last person to talk about movie killers. Who wants to see Patti on a 70' screen? She could take out her tits and even the horniest imprisoned man would look away.

I was horrified when Patti took out her udders in Summer Of Sam.

And the guy playing her husband sucked on her nipples.

Acting with her fully clothed was tortuous enough!

[quote]I was horrified when Patti took out her udders in Summer Of Sam.

[quote]And the guy playing her husband sucked on her nipples.

[quote]Acting with her fully clothed was tortuous enough!

Kwitcherbitchin! At least you didn't have to go down on her. I'm still traumatized.

Summer of Sam was brilliant and would have been a huge hit, but everyone kept asking for refunds after seeing Patti’s tits.

R57 Yeah, “Fatal Instinct” was the aftermath of what she could get after “Boxing Helena”.

“Hanging Up” kicked off the end of Meg Ryan’s career. She had a string of flops after that - “Proof of Life”, “ Kate & Leopold”, “In The Cut”, and “Against the Ropes”.

Her famous end.

It’s bad when a movie gets A LOT of press and ends up being a huge bomb.

R51 what the hell is the Madonna movie "Snake Eyes"?

Why Matt LeBlanc never really made movies again.

This ended him as a leading man.

Edward Norton

After Star then Darling Lili bombed, Julie Andrews’ film career took a nosedive.

Elizabeth Berkley

Bitches be slipping

[quote]“Hanging Up” kicked off the end of Meg Ryan’s career. She had a string of flops after that - “Proof of Life”, “ Kate & Leopold”, “In The Cut”, and “Against the Ropes”.

Not to mention her scandalous affair with the contentious Russell Crowe on the set of PROOF OF LIFE (2000) leading to her divorce from the affable Dennis Quaid, really tarnished her image as "America's Sweetheart."

R77- THIS is the movie than ended her career.

r76 Learn to look at posts before yours

Any character named "Granny Tapper" has gotta be a rea! hoot.

Do infomercial count?

Yes, and so does "Burlesque."

What’s Happening?

[quote] Do infomercial count?

Yes it do.

R78 big mistake on Meg's part cheating on Dennis Quaid at the time, because he had just gained a slew of young female rom-com fans via the remake of "The Parent Trap," which was a big hit at the box office and very popular on home video afterward and also launched Lindsay Lohan's once-promising career.

Miles O’Keeffe, Tarzan, the Ape Man.

R84- I prefer

WHAT'S HAPPENING !!

For a big guy, that Rerun sure could bust a move!!

Jeanne Tripplehorne - Waterworld. Juilliard was so embarrassed they quietly stopped inviting her to alumni events.

r35 after watching 'Bastard Out of Carolina' I could never look at Ron Eldard the same way. What a creep he played

R71 Abel Ferrara's Dangerous Game originally titled Snake Eyes

[Quote] Also, she's done 14 proper films in a 40-year-long career. That is an embarrassingly limited filmography for "a star".

R54 compare her to Cher, Diana Ross, Dolly Parton and Olivia Newton John. Madonna was topping the charts and performing to sold out audiences throughout the world while also making films.

several flops ended Julia's run: Eat, Pray, Love, Larry Crown, Secret in Their Eyes, Ben Is Back . . .

And he never acted in a major motion picture again.

Unless they make another one in his 90s

[Quote] MADONNA IS A MOVIE KILLER!

AND FATTI LUPONE IS A BONER KILLER

If Looks Could Kill

The Christine Jorgensen Story (1970)

Bittersweet Love (1976)

George Chakiris and Karen Mossberg

Madame X (1966)

de Sade

Forget Paris

Well..it didn't help!

R103 - Debra Winger has made films since Forget Paris.

R105 not successful ones

Exposed

The 1944 Republic Pictures film Three Gobs, a Gal, and a Gangster, starring Helen Lawson, Frank Gorcey, Bud Frangioma, and Betty Jarvis, only ran a week before being pulled. Some say it was because Helen did roller skate spins and wore no undergarments.

It took Miss Lawson two decades to recover her career.

I don't think Ishtar did anything for Elaine May's directing career.

What movie(s) made Michael J. Fox go back to doing TV (Spin City)?

Out in the Dark ended Divine’s career.

Kansas, and Fresh Horses (and Weekend At Bernie's?) pretty much ended Andrew McCarthy's above-the-title Hollywood career.

Catwoman

Heather Graham and Joseph Fiennes

R114 Joseph even showed his lovely cock in that movie

Heaven's Gate ended the directing career of Michael Cimino AND bankrupted the studio that financed it.

Light of Day, Bright Lights, Big City and Casualties of War indicated that few moviegoers were interested in a Michael J. Fox-led or costarring drama, R110. Roughly a half-decade later, Life with Mikey, For Love or Money and Greedy killed off his mass appeal movie comedy prospects.

[quote]The 1944 Republic Pictures film Three Gobs, a Gal, and a Gangster, starring Helen Lawson, Frank Gorcey, Bud Frangioma, and Betty Jarvis, only ran a week before being pulled. Some say it was because Helen did roller skate spins and wore no undergarments.

It would've been a smash if they'd included Vera Hruba Ralston.

R116 - no Cimino directed other movies after that.

R119 I think 99 percent of the people in entertainment on this thread continued to work, but in a greatly diminished capacity. As in their mainstream success and the big money, awards and acclaim were over. HG was supposed to be another Oscar pic for Cimino. He nearly bankrupted the studio to achieve it. But the critics and public hated it. Of course he directed other things, but nothing came close to TDH.

[Quote] Debra Winger has made films since Forget Paris.

Winger followed up Forget Paris (1995) 6 years later with 2001s Big Bad Love followed by Radio (2003) and Eulogy (2004)

She is in that AnnE/Jonathan Demme film too about the wedding.

R122 2008s Rachel Getting Married starring Anne, Bill Irwin and Rosemarie DeWitt!

Lost Horizon killed the Burt Bacharach/Hal David collaboration of many years, and ruined producer Ross Hunter, previously an extremely successful producer.

Merv lost all respect for Lanie after this.

I might be along in this but I really enjoyed That Old Feeling.