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* ''[[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (film)|The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]]'' was notable for not only being the final film [[Sean Connery]] starred in before retiring, but bombing hard enough to kill the careers of most of the starring cast. The film also killed Stephen Norrington's directing career - to date, he hasn't helmed another film.
* [[Prince]]'s acting career was derailed by his second film, the critical and box-office flop ''[[Under the Cherry Moon]]''.
* Although not a box office failure, there's an apocryphal account [https://web.archive.org/web/20140429065501/http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/film/4170549/Star-Wars-Anakin-Skywalker-star-Jake-Lloyd-I-will-never-act-again.html here] that the mockery [[Jake Lloyd]] received for his performance as the young Anakin Skywalker in ''[[The Phantom Menace]]'' caused him to retire from acting at the age of ten.
* Broadway actress (and Tony award nominee) Alyson Reed was set to become a major Hollywood star with the release of the film adaptation of ''[[A Chorus Line]]'' in 1985, in which she played the lead woman Cassie. When the movie tanked with only lukewarm critical reception, she found herself abruptly ''un''booked for talk shows and ignored by studios and casting directors.
* ''[[The Exorcist]]'' is proof that a movie doesn’t have to be bad to fit this Trope, as it certainly was to [[Linda Blair]]. While that role got Blair a nomination for an Academy Award and two Golden Globes (winning one of the latter), the well-known horror film made her a victim of typecasting, and she found it hard to find serious work as an actress afterwards, staring in a lot of B-movies and horror parodies since then, most of them pretty bad; she was nominated for Worst Actress by the Golden Raspberry Awards for three of them. Worse, she has, to this day, gotten a lot of hate mail from fans [[Fan Dumb|who actually think she ''is'' some demon who has possessed an innocent girl]]. Despite this, Blair has ''never'' had any regrets.
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