# IMDB Challenge - Never been in a turkey **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 12, 2009, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imdb-challenge-never-been-in-a-turkey/489237 "2009-03-12T18:30:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imdb-challenge-never-been-in-a-turkey/489237/21 "2009-03-13T12:46:21Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > (I don’t know what “highest worst-ranked movie” means) It means you take a pool of actors, look at their worst-ranked movie, and find out who’s is higher. > [@](#): > > [Keira Knightley’s](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0461136/filmorate) ratings look pretty good. Everyone needs to click this link. Go slowly down the list, and remember all the delightful roles Ms. Knightley has been in, and the range of movies they represent. Then take a long look at her lowest-rated. [Thunder Pants](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0283054/) > [@](#): > > Plot: An 11-year-old boy’s amazing ability to break wind leads him first to fame and then to death row, before it helps him to fulfill his ambition of becoming an astronaut. ---
**Author:** ![borschevsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@borschevsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/borschevsky)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imdb-challenge-never-been-in-a-turkey/489237/22 "2009-03-13T14:22:00Z")
Susan Sarandon - 71 acting credits (a few are TV): (5.35) - Loving Couples (1980) (5.32) - The January Man (1989) (5.21) - Mr. Woodcock (2007) (5.20) - Cats & Dogs (2001) (5.16) - Something Short of Paradise (1979) ---
**Author:** ![borschevsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@borschevsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/borschevsky)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imdb-challenge-never-been-in-a-turkey/489237/23 "2009-03-13T14:39:01Z")
Adolphe Menjou has 54 acting credits, and the lowest are: (5.80) - The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown (1957) (5.78) - Friends and Lovers (1931) (5.78) - The Ambassador’s Daughter (1956) (5.76) - Bundle of Joy (1956) (5.53) - The Goldwyn Follies (1938) ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imdb-challenge-never-been-in-a-turkey/489237/24 "2009-03-13T14:49:35Z")
[Deanna Durbin](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002052/filmorate) - 18 film credits, nothing below 6.58. [Margaret O’Brien](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0639684/filmorate) - 24 film credits, lowest 5.76. StG ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imdb-challenge-never-been-in-a-turkey/489237/25 "2009-03-13T14:58:49Z")
Were it not for “Lovesick,” which comes in at 4.9, [Alec Guinness](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000027/) would be an excellent candidate. 64 entries, including “Kind Hearts and Coronets,” “The Lavender Hill Mob,” “The Ladykillers,” “Bridge on the River Kwai,” "Lawrence of Arabia, " “Dr. Zhivago,” etc. Oh! And then there’s “Star Wars!” ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imdb-challenge-never-been-in-a-turkey/489237/26 "2009-03-13T17:18:28Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > It means you take a pool of actors, look at their worst-ranked movie, and find out who’s is higher. > Everyone needs to click this link. Go slowly down the list, and remember all the delightful roles Ms. Knightley has been in, and the range of movies they represent. Then take a long look at her lowest-rated. > > [Thunder Pants](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0283054/) Wow! Someone had an incredible cast for this premise; I notice Stephen Fry, Rupert Grint, Paul Giamatti and Ned Beatty also managed to get roped into this one. I’ll never know how awful it really was, though. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/47e85d/32.png) [@Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Lance_Murdoch)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imdb-challenge-never-been-in-a-turkey/489237/27 "2009-03-13T17:38:50Z")
> [@Ichbin\_Dubist](#): > > Robert Redford has 40 acting credits, here are the bottom 5: > > (5.81) - Situation Hopeless… But Not Serious (1965) > (5.74) - Little Fauss and Big Halsy (1970) > (5.61) - Up Close & Personal (1996) > (5.61) - Legal Eagles (1986) > (5.30) - Indecent Proposal (1993) > > Paul Newman is close but no cigar. > > Aha! Vanessa Redgrave with 91 acting credits squeaks in: > > (5.72) - Consuming Passions (1988) > (5.66) - Bear Island (1979) > (5.57) - The Riddle (2007) > (5.07) - Good Boy! (2003) > (5.02) - Mother’s Boys (1994) > > Nobody’s gonna beat John Cazale on the “minimum of five, no low ranking” thing, though. That’s five pretty good films. Indecent Proposal won worst picture, worst screenplay and worst supporting actor at the Golden Raspberries that year, so it could be called a turkey. ---
**Author:** ![Wilson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@Wilson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wilson)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imdb-challenge-never-been-in-a-turkey/489237/28 "2009-03-13T21:55:26Z")
Katherine Hepburn’s got 51 credits, the five lowest being: (5.90) - The Iron Petticoat (1956) (5.69) - Grace Quigley (1984) (5.64) - Spitfire (1934) (5.63) - Olly, Olly, Oxen Free (1978) (5.43) - Love Affair (1994) Meryl Streep has one complete turkey among her 55 credits: (6.05) - Plenty (1985) (6.02) - Before and After (1996) (5.90) - Death Becomes Her (1992) (5.82) - Heartburn (1986) (4.62) - She-Devil (1989) Cate Blanchett has 35 credits, the lowest five are: (6.10) - The Good German (2006) (6.03) - Thank God He Met Lizzie (1997) (6.02) - Bangers (1999) (6.01) - The Man Who Cried (2000) (5.90) - Pushing Tin (1999) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imdb-challenge-never-been-in-a-turkey/489237.md?page=1)