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Not all movies are created equally. While some movies christen stars and directors as the next best thing, and sometimes overnight, some movies can ruin careers just as fast. Hollywood is an industry entirely cultivated on image, which can make the decision to act in or direct certain movies feel precarious and calculated like a game of chess. And like chess, one poor decision can lead to ruin. But which are the greatest movies that have actually derailed careers?
Whether some movies are actually so bad that the actors can’t ever escape their stank or misunderstood masterpieces that needed time and perspective to be positively reevaluated, these 32 movies heavily derailed the careers of their stars or directors. Everyone loves a good comeback story, but for many in Hollywood, they’re still waiting to overcome what these movies did to their reputations.
32. Wind (1992) and Jennifer Grey
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America had the time of its life with Jennifer Grey after the now iconic 1987 film Dirty Dancing. But while filming the 1992 yachting movie Wind, a passing remark from the movie’s cinematographer led Grey to get plastic surgery for her nose. The result rendered her unrecognizable to all of Hollywood, even to her own Wind co-stars. Not only that, but Wind’s totally unremarkable reception took the, ahem, wind out of Grey’s sails. Suddenly, a once-promising rising career was airless. In her 2022 memoir, Grey wrote: “Overnight I [lost] my identity and career … I spent so much energy trying to figure out what I did wrong, why I was banished from the kingdom. That’s a lie. I banished myself.”
31. The Love Guru (2008) and Mike Myers
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The painfully unfunny and casually offensive flop The Love Guru was the nail in the coffin for Mike Myers' stardom throughout the 2000s. After rising through Saturday Night Live and launching hit film series like Wayne’s World, Austin Powers, and Shrek, Myers started taking hits to the face with the unpopular live-action adaptation of Dr. Seuss' seminal childrens' book The Cat in the Hat. In 2008, Myers wrote, directed, and starred in The Love Guru, a bizarre rom-com in which Myers appears as a celebrity guru tasked with spiritually reorienting the star player of the Toronto Maple Leafs. The movie bombed hard with both audiences and critics, and Myers' career never fully recovered afterward.
30. Superman Returns (2006) and Brandon Routh
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Superman may be bulletproof, but Brandon Routh was not invincible to the highs and lows of Hollywood. In 2006, Routh rose from obscurity to play the iconic Man of Steel in Bryan Singer’s Superman Returns, a continuation of the original film franchise that starred the late Christopher Reeve. While Superman Returns was no disaster, its melancholic qualities and baffling script (where Superman himself hardly speaks) didn’t align with the zeitgeist. Ultimately its biggest casualty was its leading man Routh, whose movie work afterward hardly took him back to the skies. Routh enjoyed something of a redemption arc however, playing theDC Comicshero Ray Palmer (aka The Atom) in the DC TV shows Arrow and spin-off Legends of Tomorrow. In 2019, a crossover special saw Routh reprise his Superman in an acclaimed performance.
29. Vice Versa (1988) and Judge Reinhold
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After leading the teen movie classic Fast Times at Ridgemont High and co-starring with Eddie Murphy on Beverly Hills Cop, Judge Reinhold was on a rocket ship to Hollywood stardom. But the actor quickly burned out before the ’80s even ended with the box office disaster Vice Versa, a strange family comedy where Reinhold plays a father who switches bodies with his own son via a magical relic. In a 1992 L.A. Times interview, Reinhold observed: “[Vice Versa] was really the end of my highfalutin Hollywood career … That’s when the phone stopped ringing.”
28. Glitter (2001) and Mariah Carey
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27. From Justin to Kelly (2003) and Kelly Clarkson
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It was one of the weirdest contractual stipulations for winning American Idol: Starring in a maddeningly safe rom-com for teens. After Kelly Clarkson won the first season of the hit singing competition, she was forced to appear with runner-up Justin Guarini in a vapid movie musical about college kids who meet and fall in love over spring break, or something. In multiple interviews, like with Time in 2006 and UsWeekly in 2018, Clarkson has gone on record saying she never wanted to make the movie. “I knew when I read the script it was going to be real, real bad, but when I won, I signed that piece of paper, and I could not get out of it,” she told Time. While Clarkson allowed her movie career to tank, she hasn’t stayed out of the limelight with a successful music career and a secondary career as the host of The Kelly Clarkson Show.
26. Mallrats (1995) and Shannon Doherty
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25. Steel (1997) and Shaquille O’Neal
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After making his acting debut in the 1994 film Blue Chips, NBA superstar Shaquille O’Neal appeared to have found a second calling as an actor, his Razzie nomination for “Worst New Star” notwithstanding. Following his starring role as a rapping genie in 1996’s Kazaam - another critically panned performance - O’Neal suited up the DC Comics superhero Steel in yet another unpopular movie. This was pretty much the final straw for “Shaq” in Hollywood, as O’Neal did little more than cameo as himself in R-rated comedies afterward. (He remained dominant on the court, however, and retired in 2011 as one of the greatest basketball players of all time.)
24. Fantastic Four (2015) and Josh Trank
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23. Norbit (2007) and Eddie Murphy
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After cultivating his stardom in the 1980s and cementing it in the 1990s, Eddie Murphy began to falter in the 2000s with duds like The Adventures of Pluto Nash. While the 2006 drama Dreamgirls allowed Murphy to show a more serious side to his craft - in a role that critics highlighted as one of his all-time best performances - the baffling, painfully unfunny Norbit from 2007 turbo-charged Murphy’s downward trajectory. Murphy never stopped acting, but a straight decade of slop made his starring role in 2019’s Dolemite Is My Name feel like a comeback. Murphy hadn’t left; he just wasn’t doing anything that was worth paying any attention.
22. The Master of Disguise (2002) and Dana Carvey
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In fairness to Dana Carvey, his stated reason for stepping away from movies was to spend time with his kids. Still, it’s not a leap to think that the infamously terrible The Master of Disguise and its catastrophic reception in 2002 didn’t have something to do with the SNL alum’s withdrawal into his shell. After The Master of Disguise fooled no one, Carvey didn’t act for nearly 10 years, and even then in only cameo capacities or voiceover work for The Secret Life of Pets series. Despite the foul stench of his last major cinematic effort, his short-lived sketch show The Dana Carvey Show in 1996 is often regarded as one of the most influential comedy shows ever.
21. After Earth (2013) and Jaden Smith
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20. Grease 2 (1982) and Maxwell Caufield
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Unlike most movie stars who endure setbacks later in their careers, Maxwell Caufield was seemingly just starting when the maligned Grease 2 did anythingbutgas him up. Though Caufield was firmly positioned to follow the footsteps of predecessor John Travolta, the lesser sequel to Grease bombed in theaters and permanently hindered Caufield’s film career, though the actor found stable work on television. In 2022, Caufield told TooFab that Grease 2 had an immediate chilling effect for him. “I didn’t work for practically two years,” Caufield said. He described a three-picture deal with Paramount that died with Grease 2. “I was stone cold dead in Hollywood.”
19. Howard the Duck (1986) and Lea Thompson
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18. Gigli (2003) and Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez
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17. Kiss of Death (1995) and Jade (1995) and David Caruso
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You can’t deliver a killer pun and put on aviators without thinking of David Caruso. But while the now-retired actor held it down on CSI: Miami for 10 seasons, his film career was a different cold case. After spending most of the 1980s and 1990s as a supporting player and a leading role in the successful procedural NYPD Blue, Caruso was ready to break out in 1995 with starring roles in the movies Kiss of Death and Jade. Unfortunately for Caruso, both pictures fumbled badly. (He was even nominated for the Razzie for “Worst New Star"twice, thatsame year.) Caruso made his last movie in 2001 before returning to TV with CSI: Miami. When the show ended in 2012, so did Caruso’s life as an actor when he willingly retired.
16. In the Cut (2003) and Meg Ryan
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After turning heads in a New York diner in When Harry Met Sally…, Meg Ryan became an unstoppable force with a string of hits across the 1990s. She collaborated with Tom Hanks not once but three times in some of the era’s all-time best rom-coms, fell in love with an angelic Nicolas Cage in City of Angels, and showed she possessed a wide range with serious thrillers like Courage Under Fire. But in 2003, her leading role in Jane Campion’s psychological thriller In the Cut, which garnered negative reviews, dispelled Ryan’s image as “America’s sweetheart” and her career slowed afterward. (In the Cut has since enjoyed reappraisal as a feminist thriller.) Ryan says she took the movie’s dismal performance as an opportunity to focus on other parts of her life, including her family. “I took a giant break because I felt like there’s just so many other parts of my experience as a human being I wanted to develop,” she told People in 2023.
15. I Know Who Killed Me (2007) and Lindsay Lohan
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14. Heaven’s Gate (1980) and Michael Cimino
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13. Jumper (2008) and Hayden Christensen
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Hayden Christensen had the role of a lifetime when he played Anakin Skywalker in George Lucas' Star Wars prequel series, albeit in a performance that was widely criticized as wooden and lifeless. When his time on Star Wars ended with 2005’s Revenge of the Sith, Christensen took a leap of faith on himself to anchor Doug Liman’s sci-fi tentpole Jumper in 2008. But Christensen didn’t soar, as his performance was again deemed the culprit for Jumper’s unremarkable presence. While Christensen kept acting, including returning to Star Wars for the shows Obi-Wan Kenobi and Ahsoka, Christensen never again held Hollywood in the same Force-chokehold he did before.
12. Head (1968) and The Monkees
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It might be cruel and unfair to The Monkees and their fans, but the group has always been a manufactured clone of The Beatles without the same level of talent and magic. The Beatles found new dimensions to their success appearing in experimental features like A Hard Day’s Night and Help!, so it stands to reason The Monkees attempted the same with the reflective musical movie Head, which The Monkees also released an accompanying album. But A Hard Day’s Night it is not, and Head only contributed to The Monkees living in the shadow of their Liverpool inspirations. In a lot of ways, Head was an end to The Monkees, acting as both a finale for their NBC TV series and the end of their first wave of fame. It was only through the enduring devotion of their fans that The Monkees persevered with an occasional output of music, culminating with the acclaimed Good Times! in 2016 and their final album Christmas Party in 2018.
11. Showgirls (1995) and Elizabeth Berkley
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10. Battlefield Earth (2000) and John Travolta
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9. Abduction (2011) and Taylor Lautner
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As the breakout hunk from Twilight, Taylor Lautner seemed primed to be the next big action hero of the 2010s. His legitimate mastery of martial arts would have suited him well in an era of nonstop superhero franchises. But the 2011 vehicle Abduction, a rudimentary action-thriller in the spirit of the Jason Bourne series, did anything but make a hero out of Lautner. Critically panned and underperforming at the box office, Abduction severely impacted Lautner’s post-Twilight career and the actor never lived up to his promising start. Lautner even tried a second time with 2015’s Tracers - a movie that looks exactly like Abduction even on the poster.
8. Cutthroat Island (1995) and Geena Davis
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7. Batman & Robin (1997) and Alicia Silverstone
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6. Freddy Got Fingered (2001) and Tom Green
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5. The Next Best Thing (2000) and Rupert Everett and Madonna
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4. John Carter (2012) and Taylor Kitsch
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The hit NBC series Friday Night Lights launched Taylor Kitsch to mainstream recognition, positioning him to step up into a higher plane of fame. With a leading role in the 2012 sci-fi summer tentpole John Carter, Kitsch was practically groomed for blockbuster stardom for the next decade. But while Andrew Stanton’s lavish film adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' classic novels is beloved now, it simply didn’t hit it bigenoughin 2012 to recoup its eye-watering production costs. John Carter was a historic disaster for Disney on proportions never seen before, compelling Disney to lean heavier into brand acquisitions like Marvel and Star Wars, the latter of which it acquired from absorbingLucasfilmonly a few months after John Carter’s underwhelming release. As for Kitsch, his appeal as a movie star was never again luminous, with only a handful of interchangeable gritty thrillers and a return to TV with shows like Waco, The Defeated, The Terminal List, and the second season of the HBO anthology series True Detective.
3. Josie and the Pussycats (2001) and Rachel Leigh Cook
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The 2001 movie Josie and the Pussycats is embraced today as a cult classic. But when it first opened all those years ago, its lukewarm reception and box office failure cut the mic off for at least one of its main stars: Rachel Leigh Cook. Though Cook found overnight fame with the 1999 teen comedy She’s All That, Cook mysteriously saw her career stall after Josie and the Pussycats didn’t make noise. (At least at first.) Her co-stars saw different outcomes. Rosario Dawson continued enjoying success, including landing a major role in the Star Wars franchise as Ahsoka Tano, while Tara Reid enjoyed roles in American Pie 2 and Van Wilder (opposite Ryan Reynolds) before her own career floundered. Though we can hardly call being a fixture in the Sharknado series “floundering.”
2. Catwoman (2004) and Halle Berry
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Only a year before Batman found new life on the big screen, his archenemy and love interest Catwoman had her standalone spin-off in the 2004 disaster Catwoman. A bonafide Hollywood starlet at the turn of the century, not to mention a historic recipient of the Best Actress Oscar - being the first Black woman and person of color in Academy Awards history to do so - it made every sense for Halle Berry to whip out her claws for a juicy superhero movie. (Berry was already playing Storm in the ensemble X-Men franchise, but Catwoman was letting Berry stand on her own.) But Catwoman didn’t purr for critics nor audiences, with the movie having the dubious reputation as being one of the year’s worst. The movie scratched Berry’s once-sterling career, and while she’s kept working even in high-profile movies - like a John Wick sequel in 2019 - nothing has fully enabled her anticipated comeback.
1. The Godfather Part III (1990) and Sofia Coppola
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3Secret Level review: “An uneven experience with serious highlights that ultimately make up for the misses”
3Secret Level review: “An uneven experience with serious highlights that ultimately make up for the misses”
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Secret Level review: “An uneven experience with serious highlights that ultimately make up for the misses”
4Skeleton Crew review: “Perfectly captures the vibes of classic Star Wars with a swashbuckling twist”
4Skeleton Crew review: “Perfectly captures the vibes of classic Star Wars with a swashbuckling twist”
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Skeleton Crew review: “Perfectly captures the vibes of classic Star Wars with a swashbuckling twist”
5Creature Commandos review: “James Gunn’s heartwarming, R-rated tale about super-monsters proves that the DCU is in good hands”
5Creature Commandos review: “James Gunn’s heartwarming, R-rated tale about super-monsters proves that the DCU is in good hands”
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Creature Commandos review: “James Gunn’s heartwarming, R-rated tale about super-monsters proves that the DCU is in good hands”