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Demi Moore was launched to stardom along with the rest of the Brat
Pack. But while her colleagues’ careers were cooling in the 90′s,
Moore’s star kept rising. By the middle of the decade, Moore was the
highest-paid actress in Hollywood. But soon after her career peaked,
Moore walked away from it all to focus on her personal life. So, what
the hell happened?
Demi Moore came from humble beginnings. Her parents separated before
she was born – a fact she did not discover until she was 13. She was
cross-eyed as a child and also suffered from a kidney dysfunction.
When Moore was 15, her mother left her husband and moved to Hollywood
to work for a magazine-distribution company. Two years later, Moore’s
adopted father took his life.
At the age of 16, Moore moved out on her own. She dropped out of high
school during her junior year to pursue a career in entertainment.
Three weeks before her 17th birthday, she met rock musician, Freddy
Moore who was married to another woman. Six months later, at the age
of 17, Demi was married.
Around this time, she lied about her age in order to pose for the
cover of the adult magazine, Oui. She paid her dues in some low
budget films before nabbing a regular paycheck on the soap opera,
General Hospital from 1982-1983.
All of this was pre-Brat Pack.
Moore’s first major role came in the 1984 comedy, Blame it On Rio.
Moore played Michael Caine’s daughter on a family getaway. As this is
a remake of a French farce, sexual high-jinks ensue between Caine and
his best friend’s daughter. Blame It On Rio bombed at the box office
which can probably be blamed on the terrible reviews it received.
Later that year, Moore starred opposite Jon Cryer in the comedy/drama,
No Small Affair.
Cryer played a 16-year old photographer who gets swept up with a 22-
year-old singer played by Moore. Moore’s character is your run of the
mill manic pixie dream girl getting Cryer’s character into trouble so
he can learn important life lessons.
At one point in the movie, Cryer and Moore pass a billboard featuring
Diana Ross. Moore’s character comments on how Diana only needs one
name, “Diana”. She wonders allowed if that will ever happen to her.
While her character does gain some measure of fame by the end of the
movie, Moore may as well have been talking about herself. One day,
she would be known as “Demi”.
In 1985, Moore officially joined the Brat Pack with St. Elmo’s Fire.
St. Elmo’s Fire had the good fortune to come out just four month’s
after John Hughes’ similarly themed high school coming-of-age drama,
The Breakfast Club. Although the two films are not linked in any
meaningful way, St. Elmo’s Fire was regarded as a kind of follow-up
film. It was another ensemble coming-of-age film this time focusing
on recent college graduates.
While The Breakfast Club received positive reviews, St. Elmo’s Fire
received mixed to negative reviews. But riding the wave of the Brat
Pack movement, it was a box office hit all the same. Although I have
never sat through the film all the way through, I can feel St. Elmo’s
fire burning in me.
(If you’re a Gen X-er, that song is now stuck in your head. Sorry
about that.)
Before I move on, let’s pause a second and explain the Brat Pack to
those who are too young to remember it. Because the truth is, they
haven’t had anything quite like it. In the mid-80′s, coming-of-age
comedies and dramas were quite popular. These films prominently
featured a group of young actors and actresses.
Some members of the Brat Pack are open for debate. But if you
appeared in either The Breakfast Club or St Elmo’s Fire, you were
either a member of the Brat Pack or you were Mare Winningham.
For the most part, the Brat Pack had a short reign over Hollywood.
The label adversely affected their careers. Many struggled with drug
and alcohol abuse. But while Anthony Michael Hall and Molly Ringwald
saw their careers fizzle, Moore only grew more popular.
In 1986, Moore starred in no less than three films! The first was
“About Last Night…” a romantic comedy/drama based on the David Mamet
play Sexual Perversity in Chicago.
Moore starred opposite Rob Lowe as a couple whose relationship starts
as a one-night stand. Elizabeth Perkins and Jim Belushi co-starred
back before Jim Belushi’s name was code for “do not watch this”.
“About Last Night…” received mostly positive reviews and was a modest
hit at the box office. More importantly, it showed the Moore was
capable of doing more adult roles than the typical John Hughes movie.
Moore’s next film was the zany John Cusack movie, One Crazy Summer.
One Crazy Summer was the follow-up to director Savage Steve Holland’s
Better Off Dead. Both films received mixed reviews at the time of
their release. But their zaniness set them apart from a lot of other
80′s teen comedies and they have developed a small cult following.
Moore’s last film of 1986 was the ironically titled Wisdom.
Wisdom was a crime drama written, directed, and starring the multi-
talented Emelio Estevez. Moore and Estevez were engaged at the time,
so her presence in Wisdom is somewhat excusable.
How bad is Wisdom? (Spoiler Alert: Turns out it was all just a
dream.) Wisdom was an embarrassing bomb both critically and
commercially. Fortunately for Moore, as writer, director and star,
Estevez took the blame for it.
In 1988, Moore starred in The Seventh Sign, an apocalyptic thriller
about a pregnant woman whose baby may or may not signal the end of the
world. The reviews were bad and the movie wasn’t a hit. But once
again, Moore put distance between herself and the Brat Pack.
In 1989, Moore appeared opposite Sean Penn and Robert De Niro in the
comedy, We’re No Angels.
Moore played a prostitute whose deaf-mute daughter is rescued by
escaped convicts pretending to be priests. Oh, and the whole thing
takes place during the Great Depression.
It’s probably no surprise that We’re No Angels got mixed reviews and
was a bomb at the box office. But who cares? The point is that while
her colleagues were floundering in the likes of Weekend at Bernies,
Moore was getting to work with De Niro and Penn.
Up until this point, Moore had never appeared in a movie that was both
a critical and commercial hit. That changed in 1990 when she starred
opposite Patrick Swayze in Ghost.
No matter what you think of the movie (personally, I don’t care for
it), it’s impossible to deny its cultural impact. The image of Moore
and Swayze making sexy pottery while Unchained Melody plays on the
soundtrack is iconic.
Expectations for Ghost were non-existent. Neither Moore nor Swayze
was considered a box office draw at the time. The movie was a mash-up
of genres, part comedy, part tear jerker, part super-natural
thriller. And it was directed by Jerry Zucker of Airplane! and The
Naked Gun.
And yet, somehow, Ghost was a hit.
Believe it or not, Ghost was actually nominated for Best Picture in
1990! Whoopi Goldberg took home an Oscar for Best Supporting
Actress. For her part, Moore was nominated for a Golden Globe for
Best Actress.
Moore followed up Ghost with a string of box office disappointments in
1991. The first was the aptly titled Nothing But Trouble.
Nothing But Trouble was a big-budgeted comedy written, directed and
starring Dan Aykroyd. It is exhibit A in the argument that Dan
Aykroyd should never be allowed to have that much creative control
over a picture.
Nothing But Trouble wasn’t just a bomb and a critical failure. It
became a cautionary tale. But much like Wisdom could be blamed on
Emilio Estevez, Aykroyd (and to a lesser degree an increasingly lazy
Chevy Chase) took the fall.
Next came the crime thriller, Mortal Thoughts. Moore played a woman
who’s best friend was suspected of killing her husband (played by
Moore’s real-life husband, Bruce Willis).
Personally, I saw Mortal Thoughts at a screening along with Thelma and
Louise. Both featured rape as a key plot point and Harvey Keitel as a
well-intentioned cop investigating the murder that follows. Of the
two, Mortal Thoughts was the more depressing.
Of the three films Moore released in 1991, Mortal Thoughts fared
best. But it still got mixed reviews and did so-so box office.
Moore finished out the year with the romantic fantasy film, The
Butcher’s Wife in which she played a psychic who marries a butcher and
then falls in love with Jeff Daniels while using her clairvoyance to
help the kind of sleepy, rustic town full of eccentrics that only
exists in movies like The Butcher’s Wife.
The Butcher’s Wife bombed and Moore was nominated for a Golden
Raspberry Award.
Of everything Moore did in 1991, she was best known for this:
The Aug 1991 cover of Vanity Fair featured a very pregnant (and very
naked) Moore. The cover was extremely controversial at the time with
some claiming it sexualized pregnant women while others claimed it was
liberating. The image became iconic and has been parodied
repeatedly. In a way, it did more to make Moore famous than the
movies she was starring in.
In 1992, Moore rebounded with a supporting role in A Few Good Men.
She got third billing. But at least she was in an Oscar-nominated
courtroom drama instead of a Dan Aykroyd courtroom comedy. A Few Good
Men received good reviews and was a much-needed hit at the box office.
A Few Good Men helped stop the free fall Moore’s career was in. But
an A-List star is expected to deliver hits in starring roles. With
Adrian Lyne’s Indecent Proposal, Moore did just that.
The movie co-starred Moore and Woody Harrleson as a young couple whose
relationship is threatened when a wealthy businessman played by Robert
Redford offers them one million dollars to sleep with Moore’s
character.
This totally plausible scenario became a cultural touchstone as women
across America asked their husbands and boyfriends if they would whore
them out for a million dollars and millions of husbands and boyfriends
lied.
Indecent Proposal got mixed reviews. But it turned into an event
movie that reshaped Moore’s career.
Moore was nominated for both an MTV Movie Award and a Golden
Raspberry. Which I think says a lot about the MTV Movie Awards.
The 90′s were a strange time. Michael Douglas was the king of dark,
sexy adult thrillers. So it makes perfect sense that he and Moore
would co-star in a movie after the success of Indecent Proposal.
Disclosure was based on a novel by Michael Chrichton. Chrichton
actually sold the rights to the novel for $1 million dollars before it
was published. It turned out to be a mix of 90′s buzzwords like
“sexual harassment” and “virtual reality” without really having much
to do with either one.
Reviews for Disclosure were mixed. But it was another hit that helped
cement Moore’s image as a sexy screen vixen.
Given Moore’s screen image, it probably makes sense that she was next
cast in a sexy adaptation of The Scarlet Letter.
What doesn’t make sense is why anyone would want to make a sexy
adaptation of Hawthorne’s tale of Puritanical hypocrisy. There was
nothing sexy about The Scarlet Letter, but the makers of the 1995
adaptation completely missed the point.
Infamously, the movie changed the downbeat ending of the novel. In
the novel, the adulterous priest dies for his crimes. But in the
movie, he saved by a tribe of politically correct Indians! It’s a WTF
momement if ever there was one. But so was reimagining The Scarlet
Letter as a tale of sexual liberation.
Not surprisingly, The Scarlet Letter received scathing reviews and
bombed at the box office. Moore continued her streak of Golden
Raspberry nominations.
In 1995, Moore also appeared as part of the ensemble in the girl power
flick, Now and Then. The movie, which theorized that Christina Ricci
would grow up to look like Rosie O’Donnell was also savaged by
critics. But it was a mild hit.
I am really only mentioning it to prevent someone from bringing it up
in the comments section.
Moore started off 1996 with another thriller opposite Alec Baldwin in
The Juror. The Juror continued Moore’s losing streak with critics and
audiences alike.
She also did voice-over work in Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame
and Beavis and Butthead Do America.
Moore’s big movie in 1996 (and one I believe lead to the end of her
career) was Striptease.
Moore was paid $12.5 million dollars to star in the racy comedy which
at the time made her the highest-paid actress in Hollywood. There was
a lot of buzz around Striptease due to Moore’s paycheck and her nude
scenes. It seemed like every time you turned on the TV, Moore was
explaining the research and training that went into the role.
And yet, the movie stunk. As a comedy, it wasn’t funny. And despite
the fact that Moore had been voted MTV’s Most Desirable Female for
several years, the scenes of Moore stripping weren’t very sexy. In
short, nothing about the movie worked.
Following in the high-heeled footsteps of Showgirls, Striptease got
terrible reviews and bombed at the box office. And as the highest-
paid actress in Hollywood, a naked Moore took the blame.
Striptease cleaned up at the Golden Raspberry Awards including a “win”
for Moore as Worst Actress.
For Moore’s next role, she returned to the kind of 90′s headlines that
made Disclosure a hit. This time, it was the issue of women in the
military in Ridley Scott’s GI Jane.
GI Jane is a pretty by-the-numbers military flick. It’s like An
Officer and a Gentleman if the “gentleman” in question was the world’s
highest paid actress.
By this point, beating up on Moore was a national past-time. Reviews
were bad, probably worse than the film deserved. And the movie bombed
in the US. The fact that it was a hit overseas was cold comfort.
Moore won another Golden Rassie.
GI Jane and Striptease were a one-two punch of high profile
disappointments for Moore. In the span of two films, Moore had become
something of a punchline. Her response was to walk away into semi-
retirement.
In 1997, Moore also appeared as part of an ensemble in Woody Allen’s
critical misfire, Deconstructing Harry.
Her next movie was 2000′s Passion of Mind. Even though few saw the
film, Moore was nominated for another Golden Raspberry. Moore’s co-
star Joss Ackland described her as being “not very bright or
talented”.
After a divorce from Bruce Willis and a high-profile relationship with
Ashton Kutcher, Moore attempted a comeback with 2003′s Charlie’s
Angels: Full Throttle. On paper, this seemed like a smart career
move. Moore played the villain which meant the film’s success or
failure didn’t rest on her shoulders. Also, a sequel to a popular
film seemed like a sure thing.
Unfortunately, the first Charlie’s Angels was one of those movies that
was a hit in spite of the fact that nobody liked it very much. The
sequel got approved even though there really wasn’t any demand for
one. Like the original, the sequel got bad reviews. Unlike the
original, Full Throttle was not a hit.
And Demi Moore won another Golden Raspberry. Those guys really had it
in for her!
In 2006, Moore appeared as part of the ensemble in Bobby, a
fictionalized account of the assassination of Bobby Kennedy. I would
skip over this movie save for the fact that it was written and
directed by Moore’s former fiance and Wisdom auteur, Emilio Estevez.
The next major role for Moore was in the thriller, Mr. Brooks,
opposite Kevin Costner. It was a return to the genre that made Moore
a superstar. But both Moore and Costner’s stars were fading. Mr.
Brooks represented a base hit rather than a full-on comeback for
either star.
Since then, Moore has appeared mostly in direct-to-video releases.
She had a small part in the 2011 film, Margin Call. And she got
second billing in the Miley Cyrus fil, LOL, which has been plagued
with problems that have prevented a release in the US.
Posted by lebeau
Demi Moore was launched to stardom along with the rest of the Brat
Pack. But while her colleagues’ careers were cooling in the 90′s,
Moore’s star kept rising. By the middle of the decade, Moore was the
highest-paid actress in Hollywood. But soon after her career peaked,
Moore walked away from it all to focus on her personal life. So, what
the hell happened?
Demi Moore came from humble beginnings. Her parents separated before
she was born – a fact she did not discover until she was 13. She was
cross-eyed as a child and also suffered from a kidney dysfunction.
When Moore was 15, her mother left her husband and moved to Hollywood
to work for a magazine-distribution company. Two years later, Moore’s
adopted father took his life.
At the age of 16, Moore moved out on her own. She dropped out of high
school during her junior year to pursue a career in entertainment.
Three weeks before her 17th birthday, she met rock musician, Freddy
Moore who was married to another woman. Six months later, at the age
of 17, Demi was married.
Around this time, she lied about her age in order to pose for the
cover of the adult magazine, Oui. She paid her dues in some low
budget films before nabbing a regular paycheck on the soap opera,
General Hospital from 1982-1983.
All of this was pre-Brat Pack.
Moore’s first major role came in the 1984 comedy, Blame it On Rio.
Moore played Michael Caine’s daughter on a family getaway. As this is
a remake of a French farce, sexual high-jinks ensue between Caine and
his best friend’s daughter. Blame It On Rio bombed at the box office
which can probably be blamed on the terrible reviews it received.
Later that year, Moore starred opposite Jon Cryer in the comedy/drama,
No Small Affair.
Cryer played a 16-year old photographer who gets swept up with a 22-
year-old singer played by Moore. Moore’s character is your run of the
mill manic pixie dream girl getting Cryer’s character into trouble so
he can learn important life lessons.
At one point in the movie, Cryer and Moore pass a billboard featuring
Diana Ross. Moore’s character comments on how Diana only needs one
name, “Diana”. She wonders allowed if that will ever happen to her.
While her character does gain some measure of fame by the end of the
movie, Moore may as well have been talking about herself. One day,
she would be known as “Demi”.
In 1985, Moore officially joined the Brat Pack with St. Elmo’s Fire.
St. Elmo’s Fire had the good fortune to come out just four month’s
after John Hughes’ similarly themed high school coming-of-age drama,
The Breakfast Club. Although the two films are not linked in any
meaningful way, St. Elmo’s Fire was regarded as a kind of follow-up
film. It was another ensemble coming-of-age film this time focusing
on recent college graduates.
While The Breakfast Club received positive reviews, St. Elmo’s Fire
received mixed to negative reviews. But riding the wave of the Brat
Pack movement, it was a box office hit all the same. Although I have
never sat through the film all the way through, I can feel St. Elmo’s
fire burning in me.
(If you’re a Gen X-er, that song is now stuck in your head. Sorry
about that.)
Before I move on, let’s pause a second and explain the Brat Pack to
those who are too young to remember it. Because the truth is, they
haven’t had anything quite like it. In the mid-80′s, coming-of-age
comedies and dramas were quite popular. These films prominently
featured a group of young actors and actresses.
Some members of the Brat Pack are open for debate. But if you
appeared in either The Breakfast Club or St Elmo’s Fire, you were
either a member of the Brat Pack or you were Mare Winningham.
For the most part, the Brat Pack had a short reign over Hollywood.
The label adversely affected their careers. Many struggled with drug
and alcohol abuse. But while Anthony Michael Hall and Molly Ringwald
saw their careers fizzle, Moore only grew more popular.
In 1986, Moore starred in no less than three films! The first was
“About Last Night…” a romantic comedy/drama based on the David Mamet
play Sexual Perversity in Chicago.
Moore starred opposite Rob Lowe as a couple whose relationship starts
as a one-night stand. Elizabeth Perkins and Jim Belushi co-starred
back before Jim Belushi’s name was code for “do not watch this”.
“About Last Night…” received mostly positive reviews and was a modest
hit at the box office. More importantly, it showed the Moore was
capable of doing more adult roles than the typical John Hughes movie.
Moore’s next film was the zany John Cusack movie, One Crazy Summer.
One Crazy Summer was the follow-up to director Savage Steve Holland’s
Better Off Dead. Both films received mixed reviews at the time of
their release. But their zaniness set them apart from a lot of other
80′s teen comedies and they have developed a small cult following.
Moore’s last film of 1986 was the ironically titled Wisdom.
Wisdom was a crime drama written, directed, and starring the multi-
talented Emelio Estevez. Moore and Estevez were engaged at the time,
so her presence in Wisdom is somewhat excusable.
How bad is Wisdom? (Spoiler Alert: Turns out it was all just a
dream.) Wisdom was an embarrassing bomb both critically and
commercially. Fortunately for Moore, as writer, director and star,
Estevez took the blame for it.
In 1988, Moore starred in The Seventh Sign, an apocalyptic thriller
about a pregnant woman whose baby may or may not signal the end of the
world. The reviews were bad and the movie wasn’t a hit. But once
again, Moore put distance between herself and the Brat Pack.
In 1989, Moore appeared opposite Sean Penn and Robert De Niro in the
comedy, We’re No Angels.
Moore played a prostitute whose deaf-mute daughter is rescued by
escaped convicts pretending to be priests. Oh, and the whole thing
takes place during the Great Depression.
It’s probably no surprise that We’re No Angels got mixed reviews and
was a bomb at the box office. But who cares? The point is that while
her colleagues were floundering in the likes of Weekend at Bernies,
Moore was getting to work with De Niro and Penn.
Up until this point, Moore had never appeared in a movie that was both
a critical and commercial hit. That changed in 1990 when she starred
opposite Patrick Swayze in Ghost.
No matter what you think of the movie (personally, I don’t care for
it), it’s impossible to deny its cultural impact. The image of Moore
and Swayze making sexy pottery while Unchained Melody plays on the
soundtrack is iconic.
Expectations for Ghost were non-existent. Neither Moore nor Swayze
was considered a box office draw at the time. The movie was a mash-up
of genres, part comedy, part tear jerker, part super-natural
thriller. And it was directed by Jerry Zucker of Airplane! and The
Naked Gun.
And yet, somehow, Ghost was a hit.
Believe it or not, Ghost was actually nominated for Best Picture in
1990! Whoopi Goldberg took home an Oscar for Best Supporting
Actress. For her part, Moore was nominated for a Golden Globe for
Best Actress.
Moore followed up Ghost with a string of box office disappointments in
1991. The first was the aptly titled Nothing But Trouble.
Nothing But Trouble was a big-budgeted comedy written, directed and
starring Dan Aykroyd. It is exhibit A in the argument that Dan
Aykroyd should never be allowed to have that much creative control
over a picture.
Nothing But Trouble wasn’t just a bomb and a critical failure. It
became a cautionary tale. But much like Wisdom could be blamed on
Emilio Estevez, Aykroyd (and to a lesser degree an increasingly lazy
Chevy Chase) took the fall.
Next came the crime thriller, Mortal Thoughts. Moore played a woman
who’s best friend was suspected of killing her husband (played by
Moore’s real-life husband, Bruce Willis).
Personally, I saw Mortal Thoughts at a screening along with Thelma and
Louise. Both featured rape as a key plot point and Harvey Keitel as a
well-intentioned cop investigating the murder that follows. Of the
two, Mortal Thoughts was the more depressing.
Of the three films Moore released in 1991, Mortal Thoughts fared
best. But it still got mixed reviews and did so-so box office.
Moore finished out the year with the romantic fantasy film, The
Butcher’s Wife in which she played a psychic who marries a butcher and
then falls in love with Jeff Daniels while using her clairvoyance to
help the kind of sleepy, rustic town full of eccentrics that only
exists in movies like The Butcher’s Wife.
The Butcher’s Wife bombed and Moore was nominated for a Golden
Raspberry Award.
Of everything Moore did in 1991, she was best known for this:
The Aug 1991 cover of Vanity Fair featured a very pregnant (and very
naked) Moore. The cover was extremely controversial at the time with
some claiming it sexualized pregnant women while others claimed it was
liberating. The image became iconic and has been parodied
repeatedly. In a way, it did more to make Moore famous than the
movies she was starring in.
In 1992, Moore rebounded with a supporting role in A Few Good Men.
She got third billing. But at least she was in an Oscar-nominated
courtroom drama instead of a Dan Aykroyd courtroom comedy. A Few Good
Men received good reviews and was a much-needed hit at the box office.
A Few Good Men helped stop the free fall Moore’s career was in. But
an A-List star is expected to deliver hits in starring roles. With
Adrian Lyne’s Indecent Proposal, Moore did just that.
The movie co-starred Moore and Woody Harrleson as a young couple whose
relationship is threatened when a wealthy businessman played by Robert
Redford offers them one million dollars to sleep with Moore’s
character.
This totally plausible scenario became a cultural touchstone as women
across America asked their husbands and boyfriends if they would whore
them out for a million dollars and millions of husbands and boyfriends
lied.
Indecent Proposal got mixed reviews. But it turned into an event
movie that reshaped Moore’s career.
Moore was nominated for both an MTV Movie Award and a Golden
Raspberry. Which I think says a lot about the MTV Movie Awards.
The 90′s were a strange time. Michael Douglas was the king of dark,
sexy adult thrillers. So it makes perfect sense that he and Moore
would co-star in a movie after the success of Indecent Proposal.
Disclosure was based on a novel by Michael Chrichton. Chrichton
actually sold the rights to the novel for $1 million dollars before it
was published. It turned out to be a mix of 90′s buzzwords like
“sexual harassment” and “virtual reality” without really having much
to do with either one.
Reviews for Disclosure were mixed. But it was another hit that helped
cement Moore’s image as a sexy screen vixen.
Given Moore’s screen image, it probably makes sense that she was next
cast in a sexy adaptation of The Scarlet Letter.
What doesn’t make sense is why anyone would want to make a sexy
adaptation of Hawthorne’s tale of Puritanical hypocrisy. There was
nothing sexy about The Scarlet Letter, but the makers of the 1995
adaptation completely missed the point.
Infamously, the movie changed the downbeat ending of the novel. In
the novel, the adulterous priest dies for his crimes. But in the
movie, he saved by a tribe of politically correct Indians! It’s a WTF
momement if ever there was one. But so was reimagining The Scarlet
Letter as a tale of sexual liberation.
Not surprisingly, The Scarlet Letter received scathing reviews and
bombed at the box office. Moore continued her streak of Golden
Raspberry nominations.
In 1995, Moore also appeared as part of the ensemble in the girl power
flick, Now and Then. The movie, which theorized that Christina Ricci
would grow up to look like Rosie O’Donnell was also savaged by
critics. But it was a mild hit.
I am really only mentioning it to prevent someone from bringing it up
in the comments section.
Moore started off 1996 with another thriller opposite Alec Baldwin in
The Juror. The Juror continued Moore’s losing streak with critics and
audiences alike.
She also did voice-over work in Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame
and Beavis and Butthead Do America.
Moore’s big movie in 1996 (and one I believe lead to the end of her
career) was Striptease.
Moore was paid $12.5 million dollars to star in the racy comedy which
at the time made her the highest-paid actress in Hollywood. There was
a lot of buzz around Striptease due to Moore’s paycheck and her nude
scenes. It seemed like every time you turned on the TV, Moore was
explaining the research and training that went into the role.
And yet, the movie stunk. As a comedy, it wasn’t funny. And despite
the fact that Moore had been voted MTV’s Most Desirable Female for
several years, the scenes of Moore stripping weren’t very sexy. In
short, nothing about the movie worked.
Following in the high-heeled footsteps of Showgirls, Striptease got
terrible reviews and bombed at the box office. And as the highest-
paid actress in Hollywood, a naked Moore took the blame.
Striptease cleaned up at the Golden Raspberry Awards including a “win”
for Moore as Worst Actress.
For Moore’s next role, she returned to the kind of 90′s headlines that
made Disclosure a hit. This time, it was the issue of women in the
military in Ridley Scott’s GI Jane.
GI Jane is a pretty by-the-numbers military flick. It’s like An
Officer and a Gentleman if the “gentleman” in question was the world’s
highest paid actress.
By this point, beating up on Moore was a national past-time. Reviews
were bad, probably worse than the film deserved. And the movie bombed
in the US. The fact that it was a hit overseas was cold comfort.
Moore won another Golden Rassie.
GI Jane and Striptease were a one-two punch of high profile
disappointments for Moore. In the span of two films, Moore had become
something of a punchline. Her response was to walk away into semi-
retirement.
In 1997, Moore also appeared as part of an ensemble in Woody Allen’s
critical misfire, Deconstructing Harry.
Her next movie was 2000′s Passion of Mind. Even though few saw the
film, Moore was nominated for another Golden Raspberry. Moore’s co-
star Joss Ackland described her as being “not very bright or
talented”.
After a divorce from Bruce Willis and a high-profile relationship with
Ashton Kutcher, Moore attempted a comeback with 2003′s Charlie’s
Angels: Full Throttle. On paper, this seemed like a smart career
move. Moore played the villain which meant the film’s success or
failure didn’t rest on her shoulders. Also, a sequel to a popular
film seemed like a sure thing.
Unfortunately, the first Charlie’s Angels was one of those movies that
was a hit in spite of the fact that nobody liked it very much. The
sequel got approved even though there really wasn’t any demand for
one. Like the original, the sequel got bad reviews. Unlike the
original, Full Throttle was not a hit.
And Demi Moore won another Golden Raspberry. Those guys really had it
in for her!
In 2006, Moore appeared as part of the ensemble in Bobby, a
fictionalized account of the assassination of Bobby Kennedy. I would
skip over this movie save for the fact that it was written and
directed by Moore’s former fiance and Wisdom auteur, Emilio Estevez.
The next major role for Moore was in the thriller, Mr. Brooks,
opposite Kevin Costner. It was a return to the genre that made Moore
a superstar. But both Moore and Costner’s stars were fading. Mr.
Brooks represented a base hit rather than a full-on comeback for
either star.
Since then, Moore has appeared mostly in direct-to-video releases.
She had a small part in the 2011 film, Margin Call. And she got
second billing in the Miley Cyrus fil, LOL, which has been plagued
with problems that have prevented a release in the US.
God's Debris
Dec 6, 2012, 2:16:10 AM12/6/12
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Wow, what a long list of terrible movies. Movies that I can't believe
anyone thought were worth making. Yeah, a few were OK but about 90%
of them are drek. The only mystery is how she managed to keep getting
a paycheck after the first couple of them.
On Tue, 4 Dec 2012 23:36:01 -0800 (PST), TMC <tmc...@gmail.com>
wrote:
>http://lebeauleblog.com/2012/08/06/what-the-hell-happened-to-demi-moore/
>
>Posted by lebeau
>
>Demi Moore was launched to stardom along with the rest of the Brat
>Pack. But while her colleagues� careers were cooling in the 90?s,
>haven�t had anything quite like it. In the mid-80?s, coming-of-age
>The 90?s were a strange time. Michael Douglas was the king of dark,
>For Moore�s next role, she returned to the kind of 90?s headlines that
anyone thought were worth making. Yeah, a few were OK but about 90%
of them are drek. The only mystery is how she managed to keep getting
a paycheck after the first couple of them.
On Tue, 4 Dec 2012 23:36:01 -0800 (PST), TMC <tmc...@gmail.com>
wrote:
>http://lebeauleblog.com/2012/08/06/what-the-hell-happened-to-demi-moore/
>
>Posted by lebeau
>
>Demi Moore was launched to stardom along with the rest of the Brat
>comedies and dramas were quite popular. These films prominently
>featured a group of young actors and actresses.
>
>Some members of the Brat Pack are open for debate. But if you
>appeared in either The Breakfast Club or St Elmo�s Fire, you were
>either a member of the Brat Pack or you were Mare Winningham.
>
>For the most part, the Brat Pack had a short reign over Hollywood.
>The label adversely affected their careers. Many struggled with drug
>and alcohol abuse. But while Anthony Michael Hall and Molly Ringwald
>saw their careers fizzle, Moore only grew more popular.
>
>
>
>In 1986, Moore starred in no less than three films! The first was
>�About Last Night�� a romantic comedy/drama based on the David Mamet
>play Sexual Perversity in Chicago.
>
>Moore starred opposite Rob Lowe as a couple whose relationship starts
>as a one-night stand. Elizabeth Perkins and Jim Belushi co-starred
>back before Jim Belushi�s name was code for �do not watch this�.
>
>�About Last Night�� received mostly positive reviews and was a modest
>hit at the box office. More importantly, it showed the Moore was
>capable of doing more adult roles than the typical John Hughes movie.
>
>
>
>Moore�s next film was the zany John Cusack movie, One Crazy Summer.
>
>One Crazy Summer was the follow-up to director Savage Steve Holland�s
>Better Off Dead. Both films received mixed reviews at the time of
>their release. But their zaniness set them apart from a lot of other
>80?s teen comedies and they have developed a small cult following.
>featured a group of young actors and actresses.
>
>Some members of the Brat Pack are open for debate. But if you
>appeared in either The Breakfast Club or St Elmo�s Fire, you were
>either a member of the Brat Pack or you were Mare Winningham.
>
>For the most part, the Brat Pack had a short reign over Hollywood.
>The label adversely affected their careers. Many struggled with drug
>and alcohol abuse. But while Anthony Michael Hall and Molly Ringwald
>saw their careers fizzle, Moore only grew more popular.
>
>
>
>In 1986, Moore starred in no less than three films! The first was
>�About Last Night�� a romantic comedy/drama based on the David Mamet
>play Sexual Perversity in Chicago.
>
>Moore starred opposite Rob Lowe as a couple whose relationship starts
>as a one-night stand. Elizabeth Perkins and Jim Belushi co-starred
>back before Jim Belushi�s name was code for �do not watch this�.
>
>�About Last Night�� received mostly positive reviews and was a modest
>hit at the box office. More importantly, it showed the Moore was
>capable of doing more adult roles than the typical John Hughes movie.
>
>
>
>Moore�s next film was the zany John Cusack movie, One Crazy Summer.
>
>One Crazy Summer was the follow-up to director Savage Steve Holland�s
>Better Off Dead. Both films received mixed reviews at the time of
>their release. But their zaniness set them apart from a lot of other
>sexy adult thrillers. So it makes perfect sense that he and Moore
>would co-star in a movie after the success of Indecent Proposal.
>
>Disclosure was based on a novel by Michael Chrichton. Chrichton
>actually sold the rights to the novel for $1 million dollars before it
>was published. It turned out to be a mix of 90?s buzzwords like
>would co-star in a movie after the success of Indecent Proposal.
>
>Disclosure was based on a novel by Michael Chrichton. Chrichton
>actually sold the rights to the novel for $1 million dollars before it
>made Disclosure a hit. This time, it was the issue of women in the
>military in Ridley Scott�s GI Jane.
>
>GI Jane is a pretty by-the-numbers military flick. It�s like An
>Officer and a Gentleman if the �gentleman� in question was the world�s
>highest paid actress.
>
>By this point, beating up on Moore was a national past-time. Reviews
>were bad, probably worse than the film deserved. And the movie bombed
>in the US. The fact that it was a hit overseas was cold comfort.
>
>Moore won another Golden Rassie.
>
>GI Jane and Striptease were a one-two punch of high profile
>disappointments for Moore. In the span of two films, Moore had become
>something of a punchline. Her response was to walk away into semi-
>retirement.
>
>In 1997, Moore also appeared as part of an ensemble in Woody Allen�s
>critical misfire, Deconstructing Harry.
>
>Her next movie was 2000?s Passion of Mind. Even though few saw the
>military in Ridley Scott�s GI Jane.
>
>GI Jane is a pretty by-the-numbers military flick. It�s like An
>Officer and a Gentleman if the �gentleman� in question was the world�s
>highest paid actress.
>
>By this point, beating up on Moore was a national past-time. Reviews
>were bad, probably worse than the film deserved. And the movie bombed
>in the US. The fact that it was a hit overseas was cold comfort.
>
>Moore won another Golden Rassie.
>
>GI Jane and Striptease were a one-two punch of high profile
>disappointments for Moore. In the span of two films, Moore had become
>something of a punchline. Her response was to walk away into semi-
>retirement.
>
>In 1997, Moore also appeared as part of an ensemble in Woody Allen�s
>critical misfire, Deconstructing Harry.
>
>film, Moore was nominated for another Golden Raspberry. Moore�s co-
>star Joss Ackland described her as being �not very bright or
>talented�.
>
>After a divorce from Bruce Willis and a high-profile relationship with
>Ashton Kutcher, Moore attempted a comeback with 2003?s Charlie�s
>star Joss Ackland described her as being �not very bright or
>talented�.
>
>After a divorce from Bruce Willis and a high-profile relationship with
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