Worst performance ever by an actress

Just finished re-watching the movie. I came to IMDB to find out who the actress was who was so awful and if she ever got another part. Must agree with others, she just was not even remotely convincing in any element of her character.

Her performance was awful but still, I found myself oddly attracted to her character and thinking I would like to pound the living daylights out of her. That marginally cute face, ample ass, etc. made her seem like she would probably be an easy lay.

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LOL I am watching it for the first time at the moment and came here just to see if it was just me or she was really that terrible, glad to see its not just me :P

I seriously bursted out laughting at some point cause she was so horrible, quite pathetic..

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Agreed. How the hell did she ever land the part.

Is she the one with all that *beep* in her face? No man, thats my wife!

I saw this film when it initially came out in 1986, and at the time I thought it was clever and entertaining... before a few decades of life experience gave me enough knowledge to see some of the gaping plot-holes when the Mrs. and I re-watched it recently.

But as bad/crazy/dated as some of the plot is, the thing that had us laughing was exactly the subject of this thread: Martha Gehman's awful performance. To view acting of this calibre you would normally have to go to a third-grade assembly where the actors are costumed as tomatoes or ears of corn.

It is not necessary to say "worst performance ever by an actress" - this would be a subjective thing that could not be "proved" or an argument that could be won.

But it would be completely correct to say her performance is so horribly bad that the Mrs. and I said "quick! We have to look her up to see who that is and whether she ever acted again."

She is so bad that you're yanked out of your "suspension of disbelief."

It's the artistic equivalent of going to a fine art museum and viewing works of Rembrandt and other masters (these would be the performances of Brown, Adams, Orbach and Dennehy in this film) and then suddenly finding a child's crayon scribbling that would only be suitably displayed on a fridge.

It is interesting that someone else made the observation that the Executive Producer of F/X is none other than dear, departed Dodi Fayed, who was all of 21 at the time he got to put his show business savvy (or was it Daddy's influence and money?) to work. In fairness - he also produced Chariots of Fire and Hook.

All of the above is just tittering conjecture, but it IS interesting that for the publicity still photo of Martha Gerhman for this film - the photog credit is.... Dodi Fayed.

Can anyone else confirm that it is typical that publicity stills for a film are normally taken by Executive Producers rather than professional photographers or cameramen?

I'm watching this on tv right now. When Rollie drove off and left her and she yelled after him, it really hit me how awful she was. I had to come up here and see if others felt the same way.

so glad that I am not alone. No wonder Rollie ditched her for Leo, haha.

Her performance could not have been that bad because I never noticed it. I did notice, however, Jossie De Guzman's performance and I thought that was pretty bad. In fact, I just assumed this thread was about her until I checked the credits. Of course we should take into account that this is a very eighties movie and the acting techniques reflect that era.







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