People always say Parkinson what held career back from getting bigger but I read his bio and before Spin City his career in trouble he had a number of flops like greedy and for love or money
And when do you think he made those two movies? After he got Parkinsons. Doc Hollywood (1991) was the last movie he agreed to star in before he became ill and during filming was when his symptoms started.
And Doc Hollywood was a success for him. After that movie, he chose to make movies that he didn't really want to do but put his and family's financial support first because he reckoned he would only be able to be active in front of the camera for roughly 10 more years, so he signed a Universal contract for a three picture deal - For Love Or Money (1993) Greedy (1994) and The Frighteners (1996). He even admitted For Love Or Money was just a lazy attempt by Universal to just try and re-capture the success of The Secret Of My Success, and during that contract he agreed to star in the Disney movie, Life With Mikey (1993), that he knew wasn't good either but again money and just trying to keep himself busy with distraction (he was also drinking too much) was all that mattered to him.
The only two movies that he seems to talk about from that period with any kind of enthusiasm are The American President and The Frighteners. The former was a hit and the latter wasn't - a lot of that was down to the studio because Peter Jackson had always planned for it to be an Halloween release but they decided to release it in the summer against Independence Day and on top of that Jackson warned them about coinciding with the Olympics but the movie and Fox got mostly good reviews.
Fox chose to go back to TV (unusual at that time for movie stars and considered a step back) because he didn't like been away from his family in New Zealand filming The Frighteners and wanted to film closer to them, and because he simply missed the thrill of been in front of a studio audience. (It was his acclaimed performance in The American President that got TV producers making him some offers to do something similar for a sitcom).
Without Parkinsons, he may still have had a succession of flops, there's no way of knowing but it's foolish to say his health played no part in his movie career decline in the early 90's when it was his health that was dictating his career choices.
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