Chris Trottier on Nostr: Now I’m watching Shortcut to Happiness starring Anthony Hopkins, Alec Baldwin, and ...

Now I’m watching Shortcut to Happiness starring Anthony Hopkins, Alec Baldwin, and Jennifer Love Hewitt.

This is a stellar cast. It should be good.

Unfortunately, it was a giant box office bomb. It had a $30 million dollar budget, yet only earned $686,846. A number isn’t missing there, it did that poorly.

I suspect marketing had something to do with this disaster. The poster indicates that this is a rom-com, but it’s more like a fantasy comedy.

Here’s the description:

A down-and-out writer sells his soul to the devil in exchange for fame and fortune.

Apparently, this is based on the “The Devil and Daniel Webster” written by Stephen Vincent Benét back in 1936.

iMDB scores this a 5.4, which indicates a perfectly mediocre move. But we’ll see.