The Adventures of Pluto Nash
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| 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 Guzman James Rebhorn Peter Boyle with Pam Grier and John Cleese |
| Cinematography | Oliver Wood |
| Editing by | Alan Heim and Paul Hirsch |
| Distributed by | Warner Brothers |
| Release date(s) | August 16, 2002 |
| Running time | 95 min. |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $110 million |
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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 was highly unsuccessful. Its budget was estimated at (U.S.) $100 million, with marketing costs of $20 million and the domestic box office (of which the studio typically receives about half) was $4,420,080 and $2,683,893 (overseas) for a total worldwide gross of $7,103,973. Eddie Murphy poked fun of himself in an interview with Barbara Walters about this movie by saying: "I know 2 or 3 people that liked this movie."[1]
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 the awful acting, terrible dialogue, and lack of humor. It was nominated for a Razzie Award for Worst Picture. Murphy himself seemed to sense how bad the film was, and did nothing to promote it upon its release.
As of 2006 this is the sixth-largest financial loss of any film ever made (after Treasure Planet, Cutthroat Island, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, The Alamo, and Around the World in 80 Days), both in absolute dollar values, and adjusted for inflation.
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[edit] Plot
In the year 2087, Pluto Nash owns one of the best nightclubs on the moon. A gangster wants to buy Pluto's club for Rex Crater, who has plans to take over the entire moon. Pluto hires a singer named Dina to work for him. The gangsters attack forcing Pluto, Dina, and Bruno (Pluto's robot bodyguard) to flee and find out what Rex Crater wants with the help of Pluto's old friend Tony Francis, an Italian singing sensation.
[edit] Trivia
- In the sequence in Pluto's moon dome, when looking for new clothes, many of Eddie Murphy's costumes from previous films he'd starred in appear, including Axel Foley's jacket from Beverly Hills Cop.
- When Pluto checks out the new dollar bills, one of them shows Hillary Clinton.
- At one point, Jennifer Lopez was up for a role in this film, but eventually turned it down. Rosario Dawson was cast in her place.
- Though uncredited, in the scene where Pluto & Dina look at potential new bodies, Rudy Soliman provided the body that Eddie Murphy's head is superimposed on. [2]
- Pluto's clone's pseudonym is Rex Crater. This is probably a reference to Rex Kramer from Airplane!
