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Williams and Edward Norton play two TV hosts battling it out in Danny DeVito’s 2002 satire
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Williams and Edward Norton play two TV hosts battling it out in Danny DeVito’s 2002 satire
In this episode of WTF Happened to this Movie, we take a look at the making of Danny DeVito's Death to Smoochy (2002).
Only enormously talented people could have made "Death to Smoochy." Those with lesser gifts would have lacked the nerve to make a film so bad, so miscalculated, so lacking any connection with any possible audience. To make a film this awful, you have to have enormous ambition and confidence, and dream big dreams. The movie, directed by Danny DeVito (!), is about two clowns. That violates a cardinal rule of modern mass entertainment, which is that everyone hates clowns almost as much as they hate mimes. ("Big Fat Liar," a much better recent showbiz comedy, got this right. When the clown arrive...