Word: miscasting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Perry and Campbell, they pull off the improbable task of both holding individual appeal despite failing to generate the slightest spark of chemistry. Campbell can always fall back on her natural sweetness to keep herself afloat, but she seems somewhat miscast here and never much rises above the level of serviceable. Perry, saddled with a ridiculous shaggy dog hairdo, has an even tougher time as he's called upon to carry the film without his greatest asset. Drained of his biting sarcasm, Perry is forced to rely on his slight natural charms and although he manages to be likable...
...that she cares, but she now says she was slightly miscast when the scandal broke. She loves dish, of course, but she had a higher purpose in loosing the Lewinsky scandal upon the world...
...live. The nonlawyer, as she repeatedly describes herself, cuts through the Capitol's moral sophistry in her attempt to convince Americans why they should be in favor of impeachment. Heck, she even managed to work Furby dolls into her questioning. But interviews outside the committee show she has been miscast. In TV Guide she gratuitously criticized her late husband, saying how insecure and difficult he actually was and that she's happily dating a country-music star who has "centered me in a way nobody has before." She said she believes Sonny was under the influence of painkillers when...
...heralded novel about the complex and unique relationship between a pregnant New York woman and her gay roommate. At a dinner party, George Hanson (Paul Rudd) learns from Nina (Jennifer Aniston), a total stranger, that he's about to be dumped by his college professor boyfriend (a disastrously miscast Tim Daly). Fortunately, Nina is sympathetic and almost unrealistically trusting, offering him the spare room in her Brooklyn apartment. George accepts Nina's generous invitation--and their relationship predictably begins...
...John Sturges, The Eagle Has Landed (1976). In WWII's final days, Michael Caine spearheads a Nazi plot to take Winston Churchill back to Berlin ? dead or alive. Chock-full cast, from Duvall to Donald Sutherland, Donald Pleasance (with some hair) to Anthony Quayle (miscast) and on the American side, Treat Williams and Larry Hagman...