Nomination Year: 1993

SYNOPSIS: You don't often see such a turkey with such a huge budget and an all-star cast, but it happens. In the future, where space travel is routine, scientists predict a solar flare of such magnitude that it will wipe out all life on Earth. A team of courageous astronauts must travel to the Sun and send in an intelligent super-bomb to magnetically collapse the building flare. It's risky, but it should work. Only one problem -- some nutcase with vast resources is working to sabotage the mission.

Smithee Award Nominations

"Wanna Run That By Me Again?"

He Used To Be Director of Risk Management at Enron The villain is a super-wealthy tycoon whose agents kidnapped one of the mission crew and "reprogrammed" her to sabotage the bid to save Earth. The explanation for this ultimate treachery against the entire human race, including himself? "I don't care what those scientists say. The Sun's not going to flare like that. It's never done that before and it won't do it now. And to prove it, I'm sabotaging the mission." I'll bet this guy loses a lot of change to vending machines that say "Out of Order."

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Deus Ex Machina
You Need a Brain Before It Can Be Washed The genetically perfect woman somehow breaks the bad guys' mind control just in time to disarm the bomb with her voice code.	Sorry, this clip has not yet been made available!

Inane Dialogue
From the "Hey, We Hadn't Thought of That" Department After a nervous flunky threatens to spill the beans to the rest of the world, the bad guy's men roughly shove him out of the plane and into the desert. They block his way back inside as everyone leaves. He shouts to the departing plane, "Hey. Wait a minute! You can't leave me! I'll DIE out here!"	Sorry, this clip has not yet been made available!

Crummiest Ending

The Closest She'll Get to Stardom The "genetically perfect" woman who had been reprogrammed finally breaks free of the baddie's control and wants a chance to redeem herself by driving the bomb into the Sun. The problem is, though, that nobody trusts her now. So she hijacks the bomb and pilots it into the Sun anyway. Here, the special effects are really quite pretty, but strange as all get-out. It's a really looong scene. She talks to the bomb. Then the credits roll. Was she successful? I guess we'll never know.

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Directors

Director	Claim to Fame
Allen (Alan) Smithee	The One and Only
Richard C. Sarafian

Cast

Actor	Character	Claim to Fame
Tim Matheson	<Not Yet in Database>	Voice of the original Johnny Quest; starred in Solar Crisis; Vice-President on The West Wing
Charlton Heston	<Not Yet in Database>	Silver-age he-man action star and tough guy who became leader of the N.R.A.
Peter Boyle	<Not Yet in Database>	Monster in Young Frankenstein. Played a lot of parts (good and bad) since then.
Annabel Schofield	<Not Yet in Database>	Welsh Supermodel. Appeared in one of the infamous "Excuse me, are those Bugle Boy Jeans that you're wearing?" ads.
Paul Koslo	<Not Yet in Database>
Jack Palance	<Not Yet in Database>	Gravelly tough-guy through and through. Has been playing badasses in countless films, including Curly in City Slickers and Yves Perret in Tango & Cash. Famously did one-handed push-ups at the Oscars at a very advanced age.
Paul Williams	<Not Yet in Database>	Short, blond, famous songwriter.
John Blyth Barrymore	<Not Yet in Database>
Roy Jenson	<Not Yet in Database>	Prolific with 212 credits, he's quietly in the background: Guards, bartenders, etc...often dying.
Brenda Bakke	<Not Yet in Database>	was also in L.A. Confidential as "Lana Turner"

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