Released: Aug. 16, 2002
Budget: $100 million (estimated)
Domestic Opening Weekend: $2,182,900
Domestic Gross: $4,411,102
For all his hit films, Eddie Murphy has offered us more than his share of big-screen bombs as well. Imagine That, Meet Dave and I Spy all lost money, and even some films that turned a profit earned him snickers and jeers (Norbit, anyone?). In 2002 Murphy hit an all-time low with The Adventures of Pluto Nash, one of the biggest flops of all time. The film featured Murphy as a nightclub owner living on the moon in the year 2087, which may also be the year people finally forget just how boring, clichéd and painfully unfunny this movie proved to be. The $100 million spent to make Pluto (and millions more spent to market it) yielded a grand total of $7 million at the box office. A professional actor, even Murphy couldn’t bluff about the dud, acknowledging in an interview with Barbara Walters, “I know two or three people that liked this movie.”
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