Chairman of the Board (film)

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Chairman of the Board
Directed by	Alex Zamm
Produced by	Rupert Harvey Peter M. Lenkov
Written by	Al Septien & Turi Meyer (story) Al Septien & Turi Meyer and Alex Zamm (screenplay)
Starring	Carrot Top Courtney Thorne-Smith Larry Miller Racquel Welch Mystro Clark Jack Plotnick Jack Warden Estelle Harris M. Emmet Walsh Glenn Shadix Taylor Negron
Music by	Chris Hajian
Cinematography	David Lewis
Editing by	Jimmy Hill
Distributed by	Trimark Pictures
Release date(s)	1998
Running time	95 minutes
Language	English
Budget	$10,000,000 (estimated)
Gross revenue	$306,715 (USA)
IMDb profile

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. To some critics, it is considered Carrot Top's rendition of Billy Madison. It was poorly received by critics and moviegoers alike.

The movie cost an estimated $10,000,000 to produce, but made $306,710.^[1]

1 Plot
2 Publicity
3 Reception
4 Notes
5 External links

[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 Late Night with Conan O'Brien, 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'", which triggered Conan to burst out laughing.^[2] The film was also briefly spoofed in Austin Powers, where Austin Powers uncovers Dr. Evil's plans for malevolence, which include a "Carrot Top Movie".

[edit] Reception

The movie appears in IMDB's top 20 worst rated films of all time^[3]. Comedian and former Mystery Science Theater 3000 host Michael J. Nelson named the film the fifth worst comedy ever made.^[4]