Chairman of the Board (film)
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| Chairman of the Board | |
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| Directed by | Alex Zamm |
| Produced by | Mark Amin Phillip B. Goldfine Brad L.C. Greenberg Rupert Harvey Peter M. Lenkov Edward K. Phillips |
| Written by | Al Septien Turi Meyer Alex Zamm |
| Starring | Carrot Top Courtney Thorne-Smith |
| Music by | Frank Egan Chris Hajian |
| Cinematography | David Lewis |
| Editing by | Jimmy Hill |
| Release date(s) | 1998 |
| Running time | 95 minutes |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $10 million |
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Chairman of the Board is a 1998 movie starring Courtney Thorne-Smith and Carrot Top in which a surfer/inventor (Carrot Top) inherits and runs a billionaire's company. It was poorly received by critics and moviegoers alike.
The movie cost an estimated $10,000,000 to produce, but only made $306,715 making the film a spectacular box office bomb.[1]
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[edit] Plot
Edison (Carrot Top) is a poor, failed inventor and surf bum, but soon runs into and befriends wealthy business magnate Armand McMillan (Jack Warden). When Armand passes away shortly thereafter, he leaves Edison the majority of shares in his large invention corporation, and leaves his jealous nephew, his only living relative, Bradford (Larry Miller) only a surfboard. Bradford attempts to derail Edison's success by stealing his formula for Glow in the Dark, which does not exist in the world of the movie, and sharing it with a consumer who covers himself in it and alleges that Edison's prize invention - a portable TV/{TV dinner} combo - leaks radiation. When Edison reveals to all that radiation causes sickness and death--but not a literal glowing--and that he had invented the formula for glow in the dark, the company is saved and Edison appoints beau Natalie Stockwell (Courtney Thorne-Smith) to run the company.
[edit] Publicity
Before the movie was released, Thorne-Smith appeared on the Late Night with Conan O'Brien Show, where Saturday Night Live comedian Norm Macdonald (who was also a guest on Conan's show) derided the concept of doing a film with Carrot Top. When Conan asked Smith the title of the film, Macdonald interjected that if it had Carrot Top in it, a good title would be "Box Office Poison." After Smith revealed the actual title, Conan jokingly retorted to Macdonald "Do something with that, ya freak," to which Macdonald thought for a moment and replied "I bet the 'Board' is spelled 'B-o-r-e-d'".
[edit] Reception
The movie appears in IMDB's top 20 worst rated films of all time[2]. Comedian and former Mystery Science Theater 3000 host Michael J. Nelson named the film the fifth worst comedy ever made.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ Nelson, Michael J.. Inoperable Humor: The 5 Worst Comedies of All Time. Cracked. Retrieved on March 26, 2007.
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