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Remote Control  (1987)
Nomination Year: 1993
SYNOPSIS: Aliens decide to take over the Earth with an idea they got from an old 50's movie. They'll flood the world with mind-controlling video-tapes! Only Cosmo, a plucky video-store employee, and his girlfriend know what's going on. Who will win?
Bryan Cassidy
Smithee Award Nominations
Crummiest Ending
A Win-Win Situation
Well, after a series of mildly dramatic exploits, Cosmo and his squeeze have won the day. The factory making the alien videotapes has been destroyed (thanks to Cosmo), he and his girlfriend are free of the brief mind-control they were under, and all is right with the world. Cosmo gathers up all the remaining videos and piles them in the front yard. He pours gas on them, torches them, and while the bonfire burns brightly, he looks up at the evening sky and shouts, "Nobody fucks with this planet! You hear me?! Nobody! We win!" That would have been a good time to roll the credits, but no.

They do a very quick zoom into the sky, then some kind of energy beam or bomb or something shoots down right where Cosmo and his house are. BOOOOMMM!!! Total obliteration. Then we see one of the aliens' lackeys break the window to a station wagon and pull one last videotape from the front seat. He looks at the camera and sneers mockingly: "No -- WE win, Cosmo." The End.

Well, all I know for sure is that *I* didn't win. Now where's that remote control?
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Directors
Director Claim to Fame
Jeff Lieberman  
Cast
Actor Character Claim to Fame
Kevin Dillon <Not Yet in Database> Matt Dillon's brother; Paulie on That's Life; Officer Baker on NYPD Blue 
Jennifer Tilly <Not Yet in Database> Was The Bride of Chucky; voiced Celia in Monsters, Inc. 
Deborah Goodrich <Not Yet in Database> Friends with Julia Roberts. Deborah in Just One of the Guys
Bert Remsen <Not Yet in Database> Hefty guy who played in Maverick, Code of Silence, The Bodyguard, and Dick Tracy
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