Didn’t that movie have a nifty theme song, “Love is All”?
He is quite good in “The Fighting Temptations”
Ain’t she the daughter of hippy Donovan?
Rumor had it he’d rather kill then kiss the girls…
A lot. Most notably, Starman, Scrooged and Ghost In The Machine. She’s also done several TV shows and made-for-TV movies.
Cuba Gooding Jr.'s had a fairly solid career - Remember he was also in Boyz in the Hood. I think between that and Jerry Maguire, in addition to his other not so stellar but still good roles (Men of Honor, As Good As It Gets, etc.), he ought to be disqualified for one hit wonder-dom.
She was in the American Pie series.
Did she ever get released from the hospital after her collapsed lung and heart ailment? That was in August of '05…
Out of the hospital and on the lam.
Thanks for the update.
Wow…she’s turning into a Michael Jackson-like trainwreck.
(referring to my post about Jennifer Grey)
Hmmmmm, 'twas a widely-reported rumour (and my google-fu cannot find a cite for the exact date or even month/year of her surgery), and continues to be repeated.
If you are correct, then I guess she doesn’t work strictly because she’s a bad actress…
Aside from Lost Boys, which divemaster already mentioned, he wrote, directed and starred in Freaked, which is a great movie to MST3K, also “starring” Randy Quaid, Brooke Shields, Morgan Fairchild, Bobcat Goldthwait and, of course, Mr. T as the bearded lady.
Oh yes, I do own it.
Yes, he really needed a bigger part in Pearl Harbor
He was way better than Ben Affleck.
Anyhoo, Louise Fletcher had a recurring role on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. It turned out her glacial, rather stiff posture which everyone apparently thought was great acting in Cuckoo’s Nest was how she performed all the time.
I dreaded every episode she was in, too.
I think these are ineligible:
Daryl Hannah
Besides Splash; Blade Runner, Steel Magnolias, Kill Bill 1 and 2.
Brad Dourif
Never been a leading man, usually plays a villain. (Saying that he’s never had a good role, including Grima in LotR is like saying that Steve Buschemi hasn’t ever had a good role). He was in Dune, Urban Legend, Color of Night, Chucky in all the Child’s Play films, Blue Velvet. I’ll bet he’s been in tons of B-movies too, but those are the ones I’ve seen that I can remember him in.
Natasha Lyonne
Somebody already mentioned the American Pie movies. She was also in Blade: Trinity.
My contribution: the guy who played Jim Craig in The Man from Snowy River, Tom. . .something. He was in that film, the sequel, Return to Snowy River, that ties up the big flapping loose ends from the first movie, and that’s all I can remember ever seeing him in. That was a Disney film, I’m pretty sure it was his first real role, he was pretty good and the movie was good quality, especially for Disney, and he had that good-looking charm thing going for him. I’m surprised he didn’t get more work after that.
Another nomination: How about the two leads from Zefferilli’s 1968 version of “Romeo and Juliet”. They were poised to be big stars because of that, but I can’t even remember their names.
Juliet was Olivia Hussey and she did largely disappear.
Jim
Tom Hulce was also Dr. Frankenstein’s (Kenneth Branagh’s) best friend in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
(And since he’s been mentioned a few times, the guy that played as Boon was the main cop in The Mask.)
And though technically not a one-hit wonder, Tia Carrere is one of those who started with a promising career that quickly went downhill. She used her soap opera popularity to get a significant role in Wayne’s World, then did Rising Sun with Wesley Snipes and Sean Connery, then did the Wayne’s World sequel, and then what? True Lies? (Shudder) Video Games? Or the number one sign your career is going into the toilet: You play Pauly Shore’s love interest.
How about Sam J Jones from Flash Gordon.
Sure he had a supporting role as Bo Derrick’s husband in 10, but what else?
Miles O’Keefe as Tarzan in the Bo Derek version – surely the most underplayed Tarzan in history. He turned up as Ator in two Ator movies (one of them showed up on MST3K, inspiring “Miles and Miles O’Keefe”), but not much else that anyone’s heard of.
He played Sir Gawaine in the overlooked Sword of the Valiant. The movie deserved a bit better, not only because it’s my favorite Arthurian story, but because Sean Connery (!!) played the Green Knight. And wasn’t bad. But O’Keefe sported a Dutch Boy hairdo, so nobody took him seriously.
Now that you mentioned it, how about Bo Derek? 10 should have made her a star – did she do anything else of note?