Leonard Nimoy explains why his underrated Liam Neeson film flopped

The late Leonard Nimoy might have been most often called Spock, nevertheless the actor had a profession outdoors of the sequence and even stepped behind the digicam into the director’s chair himself on a couple of occassions. However Leonard Nimoy, as spectacular in his position as one of many finest Star Trek characters (Spock) as he was outdoors of it, as soon as labored on a Liam Neeson film that didn’t land nicely.

The fiercely clever and thought of actor defined in 2012 why he thought The Good Mom, an ’80s movie starring Neeson and among the finest actors of all time, Diane Keaton, flopped.

It needed to do with the ending of The Good Mom, which was lifted from the ebook of the identical identify. Inflicting a stir on the time of launch, the supply materials made Nimoy’s directorial effort one of the crucial advanced new films in 1988.

The plot probed sentiments and beliefs about kids’s publicity to sexuality and challenged society’s rising reliance upon courts to settle difficult non-public issues, and just like the ebook, the ending is reasonably dour. “I believed that the movie was a press release concerning the injustice that was being performed on this case. It was primarily based on a ebook and we tried to be very devoted to the Good Mom ebook,” Nimoy instructed StarTrek.com.

“I used to be happy with the job that I did getting that story instructed. Sadly, it’s a movie that doesn’t have a contented ending. Audiences have been turned off by that and we simply couldn’t get the movie the sort of consideration I believed it deserved.”

He went on to say, “I hoped that it will create sufficient dialogue about the suitable or incorrect of the justice system on this case that it will get some consideration. And it by no means did. In order that was a disappointment. I suppose I ought to have recognized moving into {that a} movie with an sad ending was not going to be terribly profitable commercially. Anyway, I used to be glad that I did it and I started working with some fantastic folks.”

The movie introduced in $4,764,606 in opposition to a $14 million finances and earned combined critiques — critics didn’t assume it was one of many yr’s finest films. Maybe it didn’t convey to life the complexities of the novel with the subsequent execution, relying on who you ask, however it’s truthful to say it was a giant leap for a director in 1988 when movies about its subject material have been nonetheless reasonably taboo.

In happier information, have a good time the actor and director with these tales: Tom Selleck thinks Leonard Nimoy deserves extra credit score for this film and Leonard Nimoy created the Vulcan salute from childhood reminiscence.

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