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The Adventures of Pluto Nash is a 2002 comedy film directed by Ron Underwood and starring Eddie Murphy as the owner of a lunar nightclub investigating who was behind the arson that destroyed his club.

The film was a tremendous flop: the film's budget was estimated at $100 million, the marketing cost was $20 million and the domestic box office (of which the studio typically receives about 50%) was $4,420,080 (U.S.) and $2,683,893 (overseas) for a total worldwide gross of $7,103,973.

The movie had its origins back in the mid 1980s. The script went through numerous revisions and upon completion of filming, the film sat on the shelf for two years, finally released in August of 2002. The majority of critics lambasted the movie for the awful acting, terrible dialogue, and lack of humor. It was nominated for a Razzie Award for Worst Picture. Murphy himself seemed to sense how bad Pluto Nash actually was, for he did nothing to promote the film upon its release.

As of 2005 this is the third-largest financial loss of any film ever made (after Treasure Planet
& Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
), both in absolute dollar values, and adjusted for inflation.

Trivia

In the sequence in Pluto's moon dome, when looking for new clothes, many of Eddie Murphy's costumes from previous film's he'd starred in appear, including Axel Foley's jacket from Beverly Hills Cop
.

When Pluto checks out the new dollar bills, one of them shows Julie Andrews
.

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