After Leaving Las Vegas she was on a hot streak appearing in several hit films then she makes this movie and she's since appeared in low budget hackwork. From the trailer this movie is a total embarassment and I can understand why it never played in a lot of theaters.
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it probably did.When there's no more room in hell, The dead will walk the earth...
I don't think one movie will (necessarily) kill a career. So "Molly" isn't another Casablanca, but it's not a Pauly Shore movie either.
I'm looking at her imdb bio - Molly came out in 1999... However, she's got three kids (born 1997, 2001, and 2007) and it says she went back to Harvard in 2000 to finish college.
My guess is that she decided to focus on her personal life and children. What you call "low budget hackwork" probably doesn't demand a lot of her time and allows her to be with her family. A high budget film, on the other hand, might require her to be away from home for long periods of time. She comes from a wealthy family, she's made millions from her earlier work, and her husband is a director, so it's not like she needs the money. Perhaps she'll return to more challenging roles once her kids are grown up?
Sad to say, because I like her, she'll be too old to get work when her children are grown. She made the right choice. Good for her.
She'll never suffer the indignity of Nicolas Cage,
Bruce Willis or Eric Roberts prostituting themselves in DTV vomit. BTW, I'm only saying this because those 3 guys had some admirable careers. i
have no problem with prostitution. i admire Adult Entertainment for its chutzpah and sense of humor. i think the folks making both soft core and hard core are having a ton of fun, and their producers and directors are making a ton of money. The average ROI on hardcore is 3,000 percent. That is not a typo.
So, if Willis went into hardcore . . . ? Hell, the curiosity factor alone 💥
I'd never heard of this movie until today, which I found very odd -- so clearly it didn't get much of a release. Watching, it's quickly apparent that this was a low-budget indie which is mostly populated by TV actors. I'm guessing it was probably a labor-of-love project for Shue but certainly not a career-killer. "Showgirls," "G.I. Jane," and "Waterworld" were all career-killers; this plodding female-remake of "Charly" never had the budget nor ridiculously-high expectations required to destroy careers.
shareWHY??? Because she plays a woman with a real DISEASE! I say CONGRATS!!! We need more"Molly's!!!".
shareIt did there is no doubt about it. I actually read one reviewer who predicted this movie would hamper Elisabeth Shue chances of getting substantial roles into the future. The reviews gave it an average of 15%, the budget was 21 million, and it made $17 000 at the box office. This movie KO Shue's chances for sure.
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Shue is another actress who should have set the world and Hollywood alight, especially after her Oscar nomination for best-supporting actress in Mike Figgis's tragi-love tale, Leaving Las Vegas. Yet bombs such as the remake of The Saint, as well as the derisory reception and negative feedback of Hollow Man all but ended her stardom for good, and she hasn't appeared in a commercial mainstream theatrical movie up until 2018's Death Wish. Her public profile diminished, over time since the 1980s where she was touted by many as a future Hollywood starlet who would go onto bigger and better things, and yet Shue's film career has oscillated up and down and she hasn't maintained that level of consistency that many would expect. By the late 1990s after Leaving Las Vegas, she was no longer a bankable leading lady and she mostly featured in supporting roles, whilst leading roles were not only a few but were mainly in indie and B-movies many people hadn't heard of, namely Palmetto, Cousin Bette, and 1999 bomb Molly, which made just under $18,000 apparently. Then came the killer in 2000's Hollow Man, which not only became a financial bomb for the controversial director, Paul Verhoeven but that Shue's role, which wasn't well handled by the writers, didn't elevate herself as an actress and star any further than it should have & it pretty much dug a huge hole in her movie career. For me, contrary to some, her career never went as far from then on from that flick. Whilst with the horror flick, Hide & Seek this did well financially, it was also trounced by critics.share
TV Tropes seems to believe so:
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Trivia/Molly1999
Star-Derailing Role: Elisabeth Shue never fully recovered from the failure of this film. Amidst the generally negative reviews this film received, a unifying point of criticism was that Shue's portrayal of an autistic person was extremely offensive and a misrepresentation of what autism truly is. Although Shue would continue to act, this was the last project where she appeared in the lead role.
https://lebeauleblog.com/2011/03/23/what-the-hell-happened-to-elisabeth-shue/
In 1999, Shue starred opposite Aaron Eckhart in the romantic comedy/drama about autism, Molly.
Molly was supposed to be an uplifting movie along the lines of Rain Man. But, it didn’t quite turn out that way,
Instead of garnering Oscar nominations, Molly turned out to be an embarrassing misstep. Reviews were negative and the movie flopped at the box office.
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