How Much Would These Actors Give To Take Back These Disastrous Roles?

16. Tom Hanks (The Ladykillers)

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The actor’s most out-there performance to date caps what is, arguably, the Coen Brothers’ worst film. The scenery in this film gets chewed to bits, and out-of-touch racial caricatures provoke discomfort. Film critic Roger Ebert laid some of the blame for Hanks’ Kentucky-friend performance in this oddball comedy crime caper on the filmmakers, declaring that they “have made [Hanks’] character so bizarre that we get distracted just by looking at him.” The beloved actor makes the situation even worse than it had to be as he seems to be channeling a weird amalgam of Tennessee Williams, Edgar Allan Poe and Vincent Price.