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The Adventures of Pluto Nash

  • Director: Ron Underwood
  • AMG Rating: star
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Movie Type: Space Adventure, Gangster Film
  • Themes: One Against the Mob, Robots and Androids, Space Wars
  • Main Cast: Eddie Murphy, Randy Quaid, Rosario Dawson, Joe Pantoliano, Jay Mohr
  • Release Year: 2002
  • Country: US
  • Run Time: 95 minutes
  • MPAA Rating: PG13

Plot

Eddie Murphy gets way, way out in this futuristic sci-fi comedy. In the year 2087, the Earth's natural resources have been largely depleted, and an increasingly large number of people have taken up residence on the moon, where the pioneering attitude of the new residents has created a culture not unlike the old west. Pluto Nash (Eddie Murphy) is one such lunar exile who formerly made his living outside the law, but has since gone straight and now runs the hippest nightclub in the moon colony known as "Little America." Pluto is approached by Mogan (Joe Pantoliano), a gangster who wants to buy the nightclub; Pluto has no interest in selling, but it seems Mogan isn't about to take no for an answer. Pluto also discovers Mogan is in cahoots with Max Crater, a crime boss whose goal is to take over the entire moon. The Adventures Of Pluto Nash also features Randy Quaid as Pluto's robot bodyguard, Rosario Dawson as a naive singer who has just arrived on the moon, Peter Boyle as Rowland the pool hustler, Jay Mohr as old-school lounge singer Tony Francis, Illeana Douglas as a cloning technician, and Pam Grier as Pluto's mother. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Cast

Luis Guzman - Felix Laranga; James Rebhorn - Belcher; Peter Boyle - Rowland; Burt Young - Gino; Miguel A. Nuñez - Miguel; Pam Grier - Flura Nash; John Cleese - James; Victor Varnado - Kelp; Illeana Douglas - Dr. Mona Zimmer; Lillo Brancato Jr. - Larry; Christopher Bregman - Michalak; Mark Camacho - Robot Holding Cell Clerk; Serge Houde - FBI Agent; Roc Lafortune - Jimmy; Roger E. Reid - Pit Boss; Michael Rudder - Croupier; Cornelia Sharpe - Tony Francis Fan; Jonathan Stark - Desk Clerk; Russell Yuen - Oliver; Terry Haig - Security Guard; Eric Hoziel - Johnson; Alex Sol - Tommy; Doug Spinuzza - Doug; Jacynthe Rene - Babette; Don Jordan - Reporter; Bill Corday - Roy; Heidi Kramer - Filomina Francis; Alissa Kramer - Gina Francis; Stu "Large" Riley - Club Pluto Bouncer; Alexandre Bisping - Ted Jefferies; Andree Fafard - Holographic Spokesmodel; Ezra Franklyn - Robot Thug; Mary Hammett - Holographic Nurse; Marlon Long - Lindsey; Angela Perzow - Robot Maid; Lorca Simons - Pretty Reporter; Lana Underwood - Sexy Robot

Credit

Gilles Aird - Art Director, Jason Weil - Art Director, Shepherd Frankel - Art Director, Cami Bourquin - Associate Producer, Mary Colquhoun - Casting, Frank Capra III - Co-producer, Mike Klawitter - Co-producer, Ha Nguyen - Costume Designer, Frank Capra III - First Assistant Director, Ron Underwood - Director, Paul Hirsch - Editor, Alan Heim - Editor, Bruce Berman - Executive Producer, John Powell - Composer (Music Score), Elizabeth Finch - Musical Arrangement, Jocelyne Bellemare - Makeup, William D. Barber - Camera Operator, Richard Merryman - Camera Operator, Bill Brzeski - Production Designer, Oliver Wood - Cinematographer, Martin Bregman - Producer, Louis A. Stroller - Producer, Michael S. Bregman - Producer, Andy Whittock - Research, Colin de Rouin - Set Designer, Dianne I. Wager - Set Designer, A. Todd Holland - Set Designer, Brana Michelle Rosenfeld - Set Designer, John Dexter - Set Designer, Felix Lariviere-Charron - Set Designer, Celine Lampron - Set Designer, Michele Laliberte - Set Designer, Lev Bereznycky - Set Designer, Joseph Lang Browns - Set Designer, Russell Moore - Set Designer, Patrick Rousseau - Sound/Sound Designer, Neil Cuthbert - Screenwriter, Dean Semler - Additional Cinematography, Nick Davis - Visual Effects Supervisor, Susi Roper - Digital Effects, Angus Cameron - Digital Effects, Steve Garrad - Digital Effects, Paul Ladd - Digital Effects, Stuart McAra - Digital Effects, Antoinette Perez - Digital Effects, Robert Morey - First Assistant Camera, Michel Bernier - First Assistant Camera, George Doering - Musical Performer, Joel Richard - Musical Performer, Garry J. Elmendorf - Special Effects Coordinator, Harry Cohen - Supervising Sound Editor, Tom Bellfort - Supervising Sound Editor, Serge Gagne - Assistant Costumer Designer, Marc Labelle - Electrician, Nancy Klein - First Assistant Accountant, Martin Elfalan - First Assistant Accountant, Carole Grise - First Assistant Accountant, Pascale Paroissien - First Assistant Editor, Siobhan Prior - First Assistant Editor, Ginger Joyce - Production Accountant, Claude Beauchamp - Second Assistant Camera, Pierre Fournier - Second Assistant Camera, Cinesite - Visual Effects, Computer Film Co. - Visual Effects, Mill Film - Visual Effects, Flash Film Works - Visual Effects, Cinema Production Services - Visual Effects, Moving Picture Company - Visual Effects, RIOT Pictures - Visual Effects, Michel Brochu - Construction Foreman, Alain Brochu - Construction Foreman, Craig Jaeger - Foley Supervisor, Mo Henry - Negative Cutter, Erik Ajduk - Third Assistant Director, Simon Dugas - Third Assistant Director, Isabelle Cote - Graphic Design, Annette Belanger - Art Department Coordinator, Viviane Vallee - Art Department Coordinator, Ed Hawkins - Compositor, Jessica Norman - Compositor, Jonathan Fawkner - Compositor, Dawn Brooks - Compositor, Sandra Roach - Compositor, Jelen Stojanovic - Compositor, Tammy Sutton - Compositor, Bob Wiatr - Lead Compositor, Etien Terblanche - Rotoscope Artist, Jennifer Audet - Painter, Andre Bergeron - Painter, Martine Cyr - Painter, Derek J Doucette - Painter, Mario Pare - Painter, Jean-Lu Santerre - Painter, Marie Portelance - Assistant Unit Manager

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The Adventures of Pluto Nash

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Ron Underwood
Produced by Martin Bregman
Michael Scott Bregman
Louis A. Stroller
Written by Neil Cuthbert
Starring Eddie Murphy
Randy Quaid
Rosario Dawson
Joe Pantoliano
Jay Mohr
Luis Guzmán
James Rebhorn
Peter Boyle
with Pam Grier
and John Cleese
Music by John Powell
Cinematography Oliver Wood
Editing by Alan Heim
Paul Hirsch
Studio Castle Rock Entertainment
Village Roadshow Pictures
Distributed by Warner Bros.
Release date(s) August 16, 2002
Running time 95 minutes
Country United States
Australia
Language English
Budget $100,000,000[1]
Gross revenue $7,103,973

The Adventures of Pluto Nash is a 2002 comedy film directed by Ron Underwood and starring Eddie Murphy as the owner of a lunar nightclub investigating who was behind the arson that destroyed his club. The film is considered to be one of the worst box-office flops of all time, grossing only around $7.1 million on its reported $100 million budget.

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Plot

In the decade of 2080, on a lunar colony called Little America a retired smuggler called Pluto Nash (Eddie Murphy) visits an old friend, club owner Anthony Frankowski (Jay Mohr). Nash tells Frankowski to rename himself and change his singing style and Frankowski decides to rebrand himself Tony Francis. A few minutes later Nash is leaving the toilets when he finds Frankowski's creditors Gino (Burt Young) and Larry (Lillo Brancato) trying to kill Frankowski by forcing him to ingest battery acid. Nash knows one of the assailants and suggests he should buy the club himself. Nash also reveals that being a nightclub owner has been a longtime wish of his.

Seven years later, "Club Pluto" has become a successful business, frequented by many socialites. Its staff consists of Nash himself, a Hispanic assistant, and an android robot named Bruno, an obsolete model 63 deluxe (Randy Quaid). His obsolete status is a constant gag. Meanwhile, Frankowski has become a stage performer, under the name of Tony Francis, and has become interplanetary famous despite his inability to sing.

One night, Nash is approached by a young woman called Dina Lake (Rosario Dawson), who has become stranded on the Moon and desires to earn money by which to pay for transport to Earth. Because her father "Nicky Sticks" was a friend of Nash's she seeks help from him by offering her skills as a singer. Nash instead gives her a job waiting on tables at his club and allows her to remain after its nightly closure to the public. During the same night Nash is visited by messengers of a mysterious entrepreneur called Rex Crater who wishes to buy Club Pluto. Nash refuses, and Rex Crater's minions set off a bomb in the club. Nash, Dina, and Bruno escape and begin to investigate Rex Crater of whom no-one seems to know anything. Nash learns, from Rowland (Peter Boyle) a retired policeman who is a friend of his mother's, that Rex Crater is never seen outside of a penthouse in the city of Moon Beach and that he was in contact with a geneticist, called Runa Pendankin, who specialized in cloning before her death. Her skills were renowned after she created an entire basketball team using Michael Jordan's DNA, called the Air Jordans, before human cloning was declared illegal when she left earth and set up on the moon

Nash and Dina visit Doctor Runa Pendankin's ex apprentice, Mona Zimmer (Illeana Douglas), who operates a cosmetic surgery station. They pose as a married couple attempting to revitalize their attraction for one another by having their figures altered. After viewing and adapting several examples of Zimmer's bodily shapes and contour styles they pretend to be the police when Zimmer accepts a bribe to do the work without a police permit. Nash reveals that they have come for information regarding Doctor Pendankin's dealings during her last days. Zimmer, being intimidated by Nash's bluffs, reveals that shortly prior to her death Doctor Pendankin had worked for or with a Terrestrial criminal who had the initials WZW inscribed on his briefcase.

Nash and Dina return to the hotel and meet Nash's mother Flura Nash (Pam Grier). They are attacked by Rex Crater's assassins, who have tracked them to the hotel. After hijacking a limo with a holographic chauffer named James (John Cleese) Nash takes Dina and Bruno to an abandoned mine working which he used as his smuggler's refuge.

At the hideout, Nash mounts an Internet-based search for any Terrestrial criminal with the initials "WZW". When this yields nothing, Dina suggests that the initials are in fact MZM, having been seen upside-down by Mona Zimmer. Nash searches for MZM and discovers a criminal called Michael Zoroaster Marucci. Nash suspects that Michael Marucci and Rex Crater are one and the same. He is contacted by his mother who tells him that Rowland has been murdered and that he needs to leave the moon but shortly after the hideout is attacked by Rex Crater's agents. A chase ensues and the heroes escape using Nash's patented Rail-hopping technique jumping across a canyon. Their car is damaged and soon after the leave the area it explodes causing them to be presumed dead.

They are eventually rescued and taken to Moon Beach by Felix Laranga (Luis Guzmán) a smuggler who idolizes Pluto Nash. They infiltrate Rex Crater's casino/hotel. Bruno ends up running foul of a robot slot machine whose lever he breaks off to stop it bothering him. When Bruno is taken away by security Nash sends Dina to get Bruno out and pay for the damages to the robot slot machine. Nash meets with Francis the former owner of Club Pluto who attempts to help them. Nash asks Tony if there was a way up to Rex Crater's penthouse. While Francis is talking in an elevator he tells Nash that the only way up is to jump onto the top of Crater's private elevator to the penthouse. Nash asks Tony if there's a Plan B. When they leave the elevator Rex's assistant Belcher (James Rebhorn) and some men tell them surrender is Plan B. Nash is stunned by an appliance similar to a Tazer as is Francis. Meanwhile, Dina approaches the security at the place where the robots are locked up. When the guard tells Dina that the repairs on the robot slot machine aren't done yet. Bruno manages to talk to the guard knocks him out. Just then Dina and Bruno are captured by Rex Crater's agents and taken to him.

Once woken by Belcher Nash accuses Rex Crater of being Michael Marucci (played by Alec Baldwin). Rex Crater reveals himself to be a clone of Nash, created by Runa Pendankin from Nash's removed appendix, to act as public face of Michael Marucci's illegal activities. Crater admits he killed Marucci and Pendankin. When his henchmen arrive and see both Rex and Nash, Rex kills his two henchmen for being "incompetent jackasses" and has their bodies removed. He and Nash fight while the others are uncertain which is which. Nash shoots Bruno leading Belcher (who assumes that Nash would not damage his own robot) to shoot Rex. Nash orders Crater's men to leave and reveals his identity to Dina by speaking of her employment to him and punches Belcher unconcious. Bruno was wearing a bulletproof shirt and as Crater has Nash's memories he awakens as he also was wearing a bulletproof shirt. He attempts to garotte Nash, but is thrown through a window and dies.

The movie ends with the heroes celebrating in the rebuilt Club Pluto.

Cast

Production and history

The movie had its origins in the mid-1980s. The script went through numerous revisions and, upon completion of filming, sat on the shelf for two years, finally being released in August 2002. The majority of critics lambasted the movie for its acting, dialogue, lack of humor, and very poor and crude special effects, even more so for a movie with a $100,000,000 budget.

It was nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture. Production began in April 2000, and wrapped up in September 2000. At one point, Jennifer Lopez was cast for the role of Dina in this film, but eventually turned it down. Rosario Dawson was cast in her place.

Reception

The film was universally savaged by critics with a 6% rating at Rotten Tomatoes and was highly unsuccessful financially. Its budget was estimated at (U.S.) $100 million, with marketing costs of $20 million and domestic box office (of which the studio typically receives about half) $4,420,080 and $2,683,893 (overseas). It had a total worldwide gross of $7,103,973.[2]

Eddie Murphy poked fun at himself in an interview with Barbara Walters about this movie by saying: "I know two or three people that liked this movie."

The film performed better on DVD, with US DVD rental gross of $24,983,000.[3]

Currently, this is the largest financial loss of any film ever made, adjusted for inflation. It has since been referred to in multiple case-studies of film flops.[citation needed]

In January 2010, Rotten Tomatoes named the film the 79th worst movie of 1999-2009, in its article "Worst of the Worst 2009"[4]

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