It was sort of like getting into a warm bath. In , Fonda had a small, uncredited role in the independently produced fantasy-comedy, Drop Dead Fred. But his shenanigans do more harm than good. Fonda appeared in the movie basically because the two were friends in real life. Later that year, Fonda had a supporting role in the Michael J.
Fox romantic comedy, Doc Hollywood. Doc Hollywood was as derivative as movies come. She had a supporting role as the girl who is too eager to be the romantic lead. As punishment, she ends up with Woody Harrelson. Fonda played the wife of a rich Japanese businessman. They come to a small town outside of Pittsburg to tear down a closed iron mill and build an amusement park.
One day, the businessman is found half-dead. Fahey, rocking a drifter mullet, confesses to the beating but claims it was done in self-defense. In , Fonda had another cameo in a cult movie. In the original film, the doomed girl was played by Betsy Baker. The role was recast for Evil Dead 2 when Raimi was forced to re-shoot scenes for a brief synopsis of the first film.
Baker was pregnant and could not return, so Linda was played by Denise Bixler. With Army of Darkness , Raimi shot a third version of the events from the first film. This time, Fonda, who was a huge Evil Dead fan, played Linda for roughly 10 seconds. According to Raimi, Fonda was supposed to get more screentime, but her role was cut down to a blink-and-you-missed-her cameo.
Next, Fonda starred opposite D. Sweeney and Carrey Elwes in the gangster movie, Leather Jackets. Fonda played a girl with a checkered background who finally finds the man of her dreams when Sweeney proposes to her. He has robbed a Vietnamese gangster and is now on the run from his thugs. Sweeney decides to hide Elwes in his trunk and drive him to LA to hide from the mob. The movie was actually filmed in and sat on a shelf for two years before being released.
That should probably tell you something about the quality of the movie. Both were rising stars in independent films. But while Fonda seemed to embrace mainstream Hollywood movies like, well, Doc Hollywood , Leigh had little patience for them.
Fonda and Leigh played roommates. At first, everything is a-okay. And we all know that is a one-way ticket to Crazy Town! Fonda was given her choice of roles at the outset. She decided to play the lead character because she thought it was a more challenging role. Leigh was busy in make-up, so Fonda shot the part where she slips into bed. Singles focused on six twenty-somethings who live in the same apartment complex.
Sound familiar? These friends lived in Seattle as the grunge scene was hitting it big. Fonda played a coffee-bar waitress with a crush on a rocker played by Matt Dillon. Campbell Scott and Kyra Sedgwick co-starred. Expectations were high that the film and its grunge-infused soundtrack would connect with the youth audience. But like just about every movie aimed at Gen X, Singles missed the mark. Reviews for Singles were mostly positive and the film has developed a cult following.
The soundtrack was a best seller three months before the movie was even released. Although Singles failed, some point to the popular TV show Friends as a reinvention of the failed movie. Fonda played a criminal who is sentenced to death. But her sentence is never carried out. Instead, the government fakes her death and she is recruited into a shadowy organization where she is trained to be an assassin. Gabriel Byrne played her handler and Anne Bancroft played one of her trainers.
Harvey Keitel shows up as the problem-solving cleaner. Several actresses were considered for the role of Maggie. Winona Ryder and Jodie Foster both turned it down. Point of No Return was supposed to launch a franchise. When it came out, I was sure it would be a hit.
Fonda wearing slinky outfits and kicking ass? I was in. But it turns out, I was alone in that respect. The movie got mixed reviews, but suffered when compared to the original. When it failed at the box office in the US, Warner Brothers changed the name for international release. Instead, it was called The Assassin. Although Point of No Return failed to launch a movie franchise, Nikita was later adapted into two television series.
Perhaps American audiences prefer their female spies on TV? The movie was based on a stage play of the same name. Roger Hedden adapted his own play to the big screen. When he loses his job, he impulsively decides to move to Butte, MT and to take his girlfriend with him.
According to director Michael Steinberg:. Bridget wanted to be in a shot with her father. Reviews for Bodies, Rest and Motion were mixed.
The indie drama failed to find a mainstream audience. Keanu Reeves played a Hindu prince whose story Fonda reads to her young son. She is cool. And she can cry on cue. Whatever you want. Reviews were mostly positive. Little Buddha did not catch on with American audiences, but it did pretty well overseas. The point of making a movie like Little Buddha is to work with a famed director like Bertolucci. This was another prestige picture for Fonda.
In , Fonda tried her hand at romantic comedy again. Fonda played a waitress who was offered half of a lottery ticket as a tip. Cage played a cop who won the lottery and then honored the agreement to split the winnings. The movie was very loosely based on a true story. It Could Happen to You is a sweet movie that tries to present itself like a real-world fairy tale.
As a result, it got mixed reviews and flopped at the box office. Fonda and Ma tthew Broderick played a husband and wife couple who came to the Sanitarium for its unconventional treatment. John Cusak and Dana Carvey co-starred. It got poor reviews and flopped at the box office. Rounding out , Fonda starred opposite Jessica Tandy in the cross-generational road movie, Camilla.
Tandy played a concert violinist with a tendency to tell exaggerated stories. The two musicians become fast friends.
Reviews were mostly negative. In , Fonda starred opposite a then-unknown Australian actor named Russell Crowe in the period romantic comedy-noir does such a genre even exist? She flees to Mexico to escape her fiance, a wealthy politician who had her boss killed. Her fiance hires a private eye played by Crowe to pursue her and bring her back. Naturally, the two fall in love. Generally, screwball comedy and noir did not mix even in old Hollywood.
Fonda and Crowe give it their all with lines like:. Balto was voiced by Kevin Bacon. But his recordings were discarded and the role was recast. Reviews for Balto were mixed. It was mostly over-shadowed at the box office by Toy Story. But it sold well enough on video to generate two direct-to-video sequels.
Pacino played the mayor of New York City who may be involved in a conspiracy surrounding the shooting of a young boy. Instead, it got mixed reviews and bombed at the box office. It opened in fourth place behind Muppet Treasure Island. Illeana Douglas starred as a singer songwriter who grows frustrated writing songs for other people to sing. Ulrich played a miracle worker who heals the sick and suffers from stigmata. Walken played an ex-evangelist who encourages Fonda to get close to Ulrich and push him into the spotlight.
But Quentin Tarantino already had the rights. Fonda played a drugged-out surfer girl who lives on the couch of a drug and arms dealer played by Samuel L. As a result, it was practically guaranteed to disappoint.
But the truth is, the crime drama is criminally under-rated. Watch it now years apart from Pulp Fiction and see how well it stands on its own. He returns home to spend his final months with his mother played by Close.
In the Gloaming was the directorial debut of the late Christopher Reeve. It was his first project after the horse riding accident that left him paralyzed. Fonda was nominated for an Emmy for her performance.
He hopes his relationship with Annabella Sciorra will turn out differently. It was the last film Stoltz and Fonda would make together.
The couple broke up in after an eight-year relationship. She told a reporter in Instead, the role went to Calista Flockhart and she became an over-night TV star. It may work as well as it does because of Calista. Keitel played a drifter who claimed to be Elvis. Along the way, they meet a Marilyn Monroe impersonator played by Fonda.
Fonda played a woman who is the victim of spousal abuse. She is deaf due to the abuse of her husband. But instead, she flees to her sister played by Penelope Ann Miller. As she flees, she comes to suspect that her husband may still be alive. Raimi, of course, was the director of the Evil Dead movies of which Fonda was a big enough fan to make a cameo in Army of Darkness.
He would go on to direct the Spider-man films. Paxton and Thornton played brothers who discover a bag full of money. The brothers struggle over what to do with their findings. Things gradually spiral into tragedy. For whatever reason, A Simple Plan never caught on with audiences in spite of largely positive reviews. If anything, it was even more under-rated than Jackie Brown. The season six episode was titled Pilots and Pens Lost.
In theory, it was supposed to be a winking satire of the genre. But someone forgot to include any humor. Neither funny nor scary, Lake Placid got terrible reviews. It actually managed to make a profit at the box office and three direct-to-video sequels followed. Yoakam directed and starred as a sheriff who was raised by outlaws. He tries to stop his family from knocking over a bank, but is hopelessly outgunned.
Years later, he is believed to be dead. But he appears in an Arizona border town where he vies for the affections of an actress played by Fonda. Fonda played an expectant mother-to-be. But her son, played by a young Anton Yelchin is having second thoughts about being born. Unless a guardian angel played by Albert Finney can convince Yelchin that life is worth living, no more babies will ever be born. The fact of the matter was that after a decade of trying, she had never broken into the mainstream.
But when it came time to decide whether to continue trying to act or to raise a family with the guy who wrote the theme music for The Simpson , having an infamous flop like Monkeybone on her resume probably made the decision a little easier.
Monkeybone starred Brendan Fraser as a cartoonist who goes into a coma and enters a dark and seriously unfunny fantasy world. The film was budgeted at 75 million and grossed less than 8 million at the box office. After Monkeybone, there was only one way for Fonda to revive her mainstream Hollywood career. It was time to try another action movie. But rather than star as she had in Point of No Return , this time Fonda was the costar. We can wonder why she stepped back, but you can't say Fonda didn't make the most of her time in the spotlight.
Between and , she consistently made three to four films a year—more than 30 in all, over a relatively abbreviated period. With that sort of workload it's easy to imagine that Fonda simply burned out. And who could blame her? After all, every single one of those projects came with their own set of pre-production prep and post-production press—not to mention the time spent in production itself. Translation: Fonda was basically working nonstop for 11 straight years. Frankly, the thought of that work schedule is enough to make even our heads spin.
We can only imagine the effect it had on Fonda. The crowded schedule she maintained at her peak may actually help explain some of Fonda's more questionable career choices—and there are a few to choose from, none of which proved quite as questionable as 's Monkeybone.
Monkeybone tanked at the box office , and although she wasn't blamed for its poor performance, it remains one of Fonda's last few big-screen efforts to date.
Television producers pursued Fonda for years—in fact, she actually turned down the lead role on Ally McBeal in so she could focus on making movies. It's tough to second guess that decision—after all, Ally McBeal lasted five seasons , and didn't exactly set its lead, Calista Flockhart, on the path to film stardom.
But one can't help but wonder if starring in a series might have done Fonda some good. On the other hand, her television efforts didn't really pan out. The latter release premiered in December of , and Fonda hasn't appeared in a film or television project since.
We can't imagine it was an easy decision for Fonda to walk away from acting. After all, when your father is legendary actor Peter Fonda , your grandfather is legendary actor Henry Fonda , and your aunt is legendary actor Jane Fonda , a career in Hollywood would seem more of a birthright than a career choice. But legacies also come with expectations, and when your family has as many heavy hitters as the Fonda clan, those expectations are essentially tripled.
Though Bridget undeniably had a solid career, it was hardly the stuff of legend—and anything short of legend can seem small compared with historic success. Of course, Fonda may have had other reasons for walking away. Molly 'Moho' Chapman. Hide Show Soundtrack 1 credit. Hide Show Thanks 1 credit. Hide Show Self 24 credits. Self - Audience Member uncredited. Self - Guest. Self - Interviewee. Hide Show Archive footage 8 credits. Related Videos. Height: 5' 6" 1. Spouse: Danny Elfman 1 child.
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