What was the project that ended their run on the A-list?

Cate Blanchett in Borderlands.

Cher starring in Lori Davis haircare infomercial.

GI Jane

MG: Apart from being a nepobaby with a botched lip job, her career never made sense. She was also famous because of her lovelife. Did anyone ever really take her seriously?

Meg Ryan "In The Cut". After that she started getting tragic collagen injections.

R4 which is sad, because In the Cut was quite good. I thought it was Against the Ropes, when she tried to play a sexy female boxing manager (ha!) and change her image.

My contribution: Geena Davis going to TV in Commander in Chief.

"In The Cut" was lurid trash, which can be fun. She showed her titties!

Sidney Lumet had many doozies later in his directorial career.

Meg tried for ages to be taken seripusly: Appearing in Restoration and Hurly Burly - just small parts, but still didn't get her very far. Wasn't Proof of Life her big attempt to get more serious roles? By denying the Crowe affair at first, she just pissed off the press. They chase even harder when called liars just for reporting on something.

R8 Courage Under Fire was the big attempt

She should have just admitted she'd already left her husband for being a raging drunk, cheating, cokehead asshole

What was the film where Meg had diarrhea on a train in France? I think that was nearing the end for her.

Dorothy Faye’s meth-induced attempt at playing Mrs. Alfred N. Steele

Ron Eldard never had another good role after getting terrible reviews in The House of Sand and Fog

I loved The House of Sand and Fog.

Didn't House of Sand and Fog get good reviews?

It did, but a lot of reviews said Eldard stood out for being the weak link next to Kingsley, Connelly, and Aghdashloo

That was his last appearance in a mainstream movie

Catwoman. Plus I’m a black woman so that’s two marks against me.

Rikki and the Flash...

"Mirror Has Two Faces" for Barbra. Ended both her prestigious acting and directing careers. It's also a horribly sexist movie in retrospect.

It's amazing a feminist like Barbra who claims to care about women's issues so much would make such an ego trip with a patronizing, offensive message.

MG?

Michael Beck and ONJ - Xanadu

Faye - Mommie Dearest

OP, I think it was the double whammy of “A Stranger Among Us” and taste-my-streusel “Shining Through” that sank her.

Lucy - Mame.

R1 I doubt a movie that's relentless released is going to end her career. She's a great body of work, some good, some great and some amazing performances.

Elizabeth Berkeley ie. Nomi Malone, she is not.

Josh Lucas - Poseidon

Piper Perabo - Coyote Ugly

R6 also Mark Ruffalo showed his cock.

Travolta in “Battlefield: Earth.”

Sad end to an amazing comeback.

De Niro with the fucking cat, Meet The Parents...He has of course, worked since, if only because his name means money in the bank. Nicholas Cage, Wicker Man 🔥

He’s been nominated for three Oscars since Meet The Parents!! What ARE you talking about, R30????

"Travolta in “Battlefield: Earth.”

Playing Bill Clinton in "Primary Colors" was just as bad.

Justin Timberlake looked like he was going to have a film career after The Social Network and Emmys for SNL.

But some big box office bomb he headlined (that I don't know the name of) ended that.

Meg's bid to be known as a serious actress goes even further back, all the way to The Doors.

Geena Davis did another TV series before commander in chief and it was cancelled quickly as well. I think cutthroat island was the mortal wound to her A list career.

Tomorrowland seems to have stalled Clooney's status.

R20 I believe MG = Melanie Griffith

Almost as painful to watch as Lucy in Mame...Julie had a comeback or two afterward but never made it back to her mid-60s big box-office status.

Liz Taylor - Boom!

Mike Myers -- The Love Guru

Alicia Silverstone -- Batman & Robin

Taylor Lautner -- Abduction

Demi Moore -- Striptease

Nic Cage -- Bangkok Dangerous

Greta Garbo -- Two-Faced Woman

R12 her run as an A-Lister ended before Mommie Dearest.

True, r35.

She was the weakest link in that film.

Kilmer was smoking hot, though.

R9 actually it was When A Man Loves A Woman, a glorified tv movie where she goes full alkie. This was her only major career recognition from her peers, receiving a lead actress SAG nomination (not counting her globe nominations). She probably had reason to feel optimistic for a dramatic part that would lead to an Oscar nom after this, but hasn’t scored any noms yet.

Viola Davis - Woman King

Project?

When she did the movie Milk Money. Only in the 80’s could you have a high-concept comedy about children buying a prostitute.

Matthew Perry: Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

R47 Pretty sure that movie was from the mid 90's.

Taylor Swift.

[Quote] I think it was the double whammy of “A Stranger Among Us” and taste-my-streusel “Shining Through” that sank her.

and perhaps the most notorious flop The Bonfire of the Vanities

Jill Clayburgh in that ridiculous incest art house drama La Luna.

mother!

Here's hoping The Running Man

Here's hoping A Complete Unknown

West Side Story

Kevin Costner The Postman. Some might argue he has only dropped to A- because his phenomenal string of successes in the 90s guarantees a permanent spot, and I might agree. Plus he's old, and even an A lister has difficulty getting financing for their passion project or be forced into television. It's DL's call.

Meg should never have made it to the A-list.

She was the worst thing on an episode of that shitfest Charles in Charge, which was the bottom of the barrel.

Oh, you all know the name of the film.

I'm still in recovery.

A second vote for Alicia Silverstone. She went from raves and mag covers in Clueless, to getting totally panned in Batman & Robin, and that was pretty much it.

Pinocchio with the insufferable Roberto Benigni

I thought Waterworld was Constner's great undoing. Although he was still important to Valerie Cherish ten years later.

Virtually everything Julia Roberts did after Erin Brockovich: the Mexican, Mona Lisa's Smile, Charlie Wilson's War, Eat Pray Love, Larry Crowne . . .

Nobody stays hot forever.

R27 Piper had a five year run in Covert Affairs.

[quote]Nobody stays hot forever.

Maybe Alain Delon...

Ana de Armas fell off the planet after "Blonde."

Yeah R67 AdA was one I wondered about recently, she seems to have disappeared since then.

Anyone mention Brandon Routh in Superman Returns yet? His career ended just as it began it seems.

The Smoky Hole Girls

R57 Let's not forget Waterworld. Double whammy.

G.I. Jane

The gold goes to: R71!

Remember when Demi's nicknames was supposed to be Gimme More?

Kathleen Turner as V.I. Warshawski. Turner had hoped the detective movie would become a franchise for her, but its failure ended her run on the A-list.

R52 - Jill got an Oscar nomination for Starting Over which was released after Luna. I think it was the double whammy of I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can and Hanna K that did Clayburgh in.

Tedious, dreary and ridiculous film. It's hard to believe this was a theatrical release.

The director Jack Hofsiss had two great tragedies in his life. This film and breaking his back in a swimming accident.

2002 was Robin Williams' last good year. Unfortunately, he made about 30 movies after that.

[quote] It's hard to believe this was a theatrical release.

Well, in those days movies were about something, not merely amusement park rides. I miss those days.

Karen Valentine, "Coffee, Tea, or Me"

Anne Hathaway, everything post 2012.

R63: Love her or hate her, she is one of the last legitimate movie stars and will always be on the A list. Yes people stopped caring about her after her Oscar win in 2001 but again love her or hate her she's always had a permanent spot on the A list.

Meryl, everything post 2018. No Oscar nominations, no Golden Globe wins, and no Weinstein.

Ezra Miller - The Flash

Brie Larson - The Marvels

Dakota Johnson - Madame Webb

James Franco - The Disaster Artist

Tom Holland - The Crowded Room

Possibly Zendaya - Challengers

[Quote] Ron Eldard never had another good role after getting terrible reviews in The House of Sand and Fog

In what universe was he ever “A-list?”

[Quote] Geena Davis did another TV series before commander in chief and it was cancelled quickly as well.

She started as an actress on TV. I don’t count Tootsie because she was a model when cast, and was cast to walk around in her underwear.

Her real acting debut was in two shows, cult classic “Buffalo Bill” with Dabney Coleman, and her own TV show “Sarah.” She was extremely cute in Buffalo Bill, which by the way is surprisingly worth watching if it’s streaming (which I doubt).

“Sarah” wasn’t great, although she was good in it. Then she got her breakout role in “The Fly.”

Glenn has been on a slow elder decline with JD Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy, doing Da Butt at the Oscars, and talking about smelling pussy.

[Quote] She was extremely cute in Buffalo Bill, which by the way is surprisingly worth watching if it’s streaming (which I doubt).

It’s not streaming anywhere, but both seasons are on YouTube.

Melanie didn’t ruin Bonfire. She was fine in it, she did her thing well.

If anyone ruined it, it was Hanks, but not for lack of trying. He was just woefully miscast.

The whole idea of bonfire as a big budget picture was doomed from the start. To make back all of the money poured into it, they had to make the leads, who were big movie stars, at least semi-likeable, and that just wasn’t Bonfire.

So the story, which is built around across-the-board unlikeable characters, just didn’t work with nice guy hanks and lovable rogue Willis.

If you watch the movie today, it certainly looks interesting and De Palma tells the story well — his visual virtuosity shines through. But his stories do tend to be a bit cartoonish, and that’s there too.

The Disaster Artist pushed Franco even higher. It was all the Me Too that ended him.

Joaquin Phoenix - Napoleon flop, pulling out of the Todd Haynes film, and as of now things aren't looking so good for Joker Folie A Deux.

So many but Norbit totally killed Eddie Murphy.

R93 is the ghost of Alan Arkin.

Not a project, but when Jennifer Lawrence's fuck buddy Harvey Weinstein got arrested her career hit the skids. Coincidence? I think not.

Yes, the timing is suspicious on that r95

R77: 2002 actually wasn't that good to him.

Meryl and Glenn have not had a project that ended their A-List run. Those women are close to 80 and they've had spectacular careers. Both are still working, maybe projects are not built around their names anymore but they're still bankable stars and always will be.

Anne Hathaway The Witches (2020)

Meryl's Weinstein comments along with Rose McGowan's scathing rebuttal greatly hindered her career, from which it has yet to recover.

She's in her longest stretch without an oscar nomination and is doing second rate supporting work on a Steve Martin tv show. Frances McDormand has become the elder stateswoman of actresses and tied Hepburn as the Actress with the most oscars. Bradley Cooper is already at 12 oscar nominations and with a couple more prestige projects, could break Meryl's record.

She should have sat there and just ate her food.

Rose McGowan knew nothing about Meryl because she never met her. She was just saying anything for attention.

And it’s age, not Harvey, that has caused Meryl’s career to slow down. At 75, it’s not like they are giving her a Marvel film.

They are developing sequels to Prada and Mamma Mia around her, so I don’t think your analysis is correct.

And Frances has 3 best actress Oscars. Hepburn had 4, which she kept in a bag in a closet.

Frances has four oscars. One for producing, which still counts.

In which case, I'm the actress with the most Oscars!

Meryl only has two Best Actress oscars, so Frances still wins.

Wins what?

Jane Fonda

The false moustache on Smits!

Extremely Pretentious and Incredibly Saccharine

Alec Baldwin - Rust