So, into the wolves den hapless jokester Matthew Perry was thrown, starring as the romantic lead opposite Salma Hayek.
#FOOLS RUSH IN MOVIE#
Their performances earned them Razzie nominations for “Worst New Star,” which they shared with Jennifer Aniston and Lisa Kudrow in a special grouping called “ Friends cast members turned movie star wannabes.” Despite this inauspicious box office reception, Hollywood execs seemed determined to convince audiences that they were in fact dying to see the Friends squad in feature films. That same year, Matt LeBlanc starred in Ed (1996).
By March 1995, the cast was on the cover of Rolling Stone, and the accompanying story declared Friends a “full-blown cultural phenomenon.” The six actors were officially famous, recognizable, and marketable as a unit, but it was time to see if America would buy them individually as well.ĭavid Schwimmer, the one who Rolling Stone painted as the handsome breakout star of the show, tried his luck with The Pallbearer (1996).
The show premiered on NBC in September 1994. When Fools Rush In was green-lit, Friends was reaching the apex of its cultural ascendency. Neither of them have ever looked into the bizarre, clash-of-cultures wonder that is Fools Rush In, though, so I decided to give it a whirl. I’m weirdly fascinated by how movies of its ilk come to be, and I know I’m not alone in this interest, because podcasts like How Did This Get Made and The Flop House exist. I probably think about it even more than Matthew Perry, Salma Hayek, or anyone involved in the movie would want someone to, considering its sub-par $29 million box office haul and 33% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. I’m sure most people wouldn’t give its departure from Netflix a second thought, but for some reason, I think about Fools Rush In a lot. The 1997 romantic comedy starring Matthew Perry and Salma Hayek would no longer be available to stream instantly come August 1. My eyes were glazing over (the lists were pretty long), when suddenly, there it was: Fools Rush In.
Two weeks ago, I was doing my end-of-July roundup of what’s coming to and leaving Netflix in August.
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