Shooting a movie is hard work, and even the best of the best sometimes stumble. While all of the following films come from critically-acclaimed directors, they were also some of the worst films ever made by these talented individuals. Perhaps not the worst movies ever made, they nonetheless pale in comparison to the other works of these great directors.
1. Jack
This strange film stars Robin Williams as a young boy in an adult man's body, due to a rare disease that causes him to mature too quickly. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, best known for The Godfather and its subsequent sequels, the movie was criticized for being overtly sentimental and manipulating his audiences with the content of the film. Others felt that Robin Williams's portrayal of a young kid was underwhelming.
2. The Color of Money
Scorsese is better known for popular films like The Aviator and Gangs of New York, but this film starring Paul Newman and Tom Cruise was shot earlier on in Scorsese's career. The film was either loved or hated by critics, and even managed to win several awards, in spite of the disdain of prominent movie reviewers. Newman nabbed an Oscar for his role, though the movie was said to be a sad follow up to The Hustler.
3. Cassandra's Dream
This film from Woody Allen was largely panned for recycling material from previous movies of the famed director. It received mixed reviews from the critics, though some pegged the film as a great example of Allen's work. Nonetheless, in comparison to his other films, Cassandra's Dream falls a bit flat.
4. Justine
From film director George Cukor, Justine takes place in Alexandria, where a British schoolmaster discovers a plot against his native land. The movie was criticized for a subpar screenplay, and a mess of a movie. Others called the flop “malformed.”
5. The Prisoner of Shark Island
John Ford's The Prisoner of Shark Island is a film based on the life of Samuel Mudd. Mudd was a doctor who was convicted of helping John Wilkes Booth to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln. While the film paints Mudd as an innocent person who takes the fall, Mudd's real story lacks much of the same innocence Ford projects through the film. Furthermore, the film is plagued with historical inaccuracies, from small details like the name of his wife, to fictitious battles added for extra suspense.
6. Marnie
Famed director Alfred Hitchcock directed this film, about a trouble woman named Marnie. She has several different fears and issues which are confronted in the movie, and are shown to be the root causes of her thieving and distrust of everyone. The movie performed very poorly at the box office, and was ridiculed for the fantasy of its ending, in which it is revealed that Marnie's mother was a prostitute. When Marnie became agitated during a storm as a young child, one of her mother's clients tried to comfort her, and her mother believe he was trying to molest her. Marnie lashed out at him and struck him with a fireplace poker, killing him in the process. Once this is revealed, everything becomes perfect, which critics felt was unrealistic and disrespectful to the story line.
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