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Winona Ryder Resorts to Hallmark Movie

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (30)

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I don’t think I need to repeat the details of the Adam Sandler curse. Suffice to say: If you’re not Drew Barrymore, and you star opposite Sandler, your career is headed toward a free fall. No one better epitomizes that free fall than Winona Ryder, who hasn’t made a good movie or a successful one (save for her small part in Star Trek) since 2002’s Mr. Deeds, even as she reconnected with her Heathers writer Daniel Waters for Sex and Death 101, which couldn’t even find traction in her toplessness.

And when Winona Ryder’s toplessness can’t sell a ticket, you know it’s the work of the Sandler curse.

So, just how far has Ryder fallen?

Hallmark Hall of Fame movie far. Co-starring with … oh … Barry Pepper, who doesn’t even have the Sandler curse to blame on his career nosedive.

When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story is about Lois Wilson (Ryder), the co-founder of Al-Anon, and her relationship with alcoholic husband Bill Wilson (Pepper), one of the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous. Apparently, Louis struggled with issues surrounding her husband’s alcoholism even after he sobered up. So she formed a 12-step program for people who can’t deal with the shit of others.

It’s airing on CBS in the spring. Because of course it is.

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Comments

Winona Forever!!!!!!! or Wino Forever? I love her.

She was so good in Reality Bites. And Heathers.

It makes me sad.

Posted by: Goddess at November 11, 2009 6:13 PM

Sorry, Nona but I wrote your dumb ass off when you got caught stealing. Caught. Stealing. Look, I don't care if you don't want to pay for shit. Nobody does. But to get caught? Sweetie, I had to cut you loose. A true Heather would not get caught.

Posted by: greer at November 11, 2009 6:24 PM

Yeah, what happened to Barry Pepper? Dude had skills for awhile.

Posted by: Riles at November 11, 2009 6:26 PM

Winona Ryder can pick my pockets anytime.

Posted by: DarthCorleone at November 11, 2009 6:28 PM

She just needs to bite the bullet and downgrade from film to television. I'm sure she could get a third-billed role in some new generic TV drama.

Posted by: Tim at November 11, 2009 6:30 PM

The Sandler Anonymous 12 step program starts here....

Posted by: Bob at November 11, 2009 6:34 PM

I couldn't be bothered to care about anything in this entry other than the image you captioned for it.

Hellloooooooooooo shiny black bra.

Posted by: spideychris at November 11, 2009 6:44 PM

It's time for Beetlejuice 2!

Posted by: Daniel Hall at November 11, 2009 7:04 PM

He'll always be Private Jackson to me...He doesn't have to make another movie.

Posted by: East Coast Ugly at November 11, 2009 7:35 PM

A few weeks after she was arrested for shoplifting, I called Saks Fifth Avenue and asked them to page her for me. The lady who answered kept asking if it was a joke or if she was on the radio. Very seriously, I explained that I was supposed to be meeting her for an afternoon of shopping but she must have forgotten her cell phone and I was going to be late. Eventually, she actually paged her. I wish I'd been in the store to see if anybody reacted.

Full disclosure: The call was the result of losing a bet made after several glasses of wine during a tipsy lunch.

Posted by: Jiffyzen at November 11, 2009 7:39 PM

Winona was a Veronica in 'Heathers,' not a Heather. Also, I can see that you guys don’t read the film trades or at least you haven’t lately... Winona Ryder has in fact not fallen too far. It was just announced three days ago that she will star alongside Natalie Portman in Darren Aronofsky "Black Swan!" Also, check out her performance in Rebecca Miller’s “The Private Lives of Pippa Lee.” So she does a TV film... who cares! I think the plot sounds interesting and I'm sure she'll be fantastic in it! Don't write her off just yet! She is slowly but surely making her way back to the top!! GO WINONA!!

Posted by: DemonMeister at November 11, 2009 7:58 PM

She took too long to whip her tits out and people lost interest. The same thing will happen to Megan Fox.

Posted by: Will at November 11, 2009 9:03 PM

I think Barry Pepper has Battlefield Earth to blame for his career nosedive.

I mean, look: Saving Private Ryan, Enemy of the State, The Green Mile . . . and then Battlefield Earth. Brick wall.

Posted by: lizzie (greeneyed fem) at November 11, 2009 9:04 PM

As a child of the 80s, I think Winona Ryder was one of my first movie crushes.

So I hope she gets her career back on track. If nothing else for more pics like that.

Posted by: Fredo at November 11, 2009 9:48 PM

"Winona Ryder has in fact not fallen too far. It was just announced three days ago that she will star alongside Natalie Portman in Darren Aronofsky "Black Swan!"

WAIT A GOD DAMN MINUTE THAT BETTER NOT BE HER KNOCKING OUT MILA KUNIS DAMMIT YOU'RE GOING TO RUIN MY FANTASY If JACKIE BURKHART AND PADME AREN'T GETTING IT ON LIKE I WAS PREVIOUSLY PROMISED!! ARANOOOOOOOFSKY!

I apologize.

But I really don't because if you're going to replace Mila Kunis with Winona Ryder you might as well replace Nat Portman with a big bag of I no longer give a fudge.

Posted by: D-Day at November 11, 2009 11:27 PM

Relax D-Day, no need to worry... Kunis is still in the film. Winona was just cast as Beth, the older dancer who everyone wants to take over when she leaves. She’ll only have a supporting role in the film, but I hope a pivotal one.

Posted by: DemonMeister at November 12, 2009 12:23 AM

winona-the very personification of beauty+brains itself.

discounting the saks incident,mr deeds-honestly,everytime i watch heathers,or girl,interrupted i KNOW there's something special about her-it just takes some time for her to know it,and get on a project that shows it.

Posted by: unevan at November 12, 2009 12:26 AM

Winona is finally getting old enough to be interesting.

Posted by: , (TCFKAB) at November 12, 2009 1:51 AM

Adma Sandler curse? Are you sure about that?

Two years before she went the Sandler route she let Richard Gere rub his old man stink all over her in Autimn in New York. It was all downhill from there. Sandler did her a favor.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at November 12, 2009 5:32 AM

I'll tell you what happened to Pepper....

"...all I wanna do is race, Daddy!"

Posted by: gunnertec at November 12, 2009 8:41 AM

Thank heavens, crisis averted.

I really just can't see Winona as anything other than Ethan Hawke's (man-crush!) lady.

Posted by: D-Day at November 12, 2009 11:28 AM

i wonder what powerful alchemy she wields in order to convince anyone she's a good a actor.

Posted by: jimmy at November 12, 2009 12:26 PM

Why is it that all of a sudden Winona is considered a bad actor…? I don’t understand when that happened. I mean, she has had a multitude of critically acclaimed performances (e.g. Girl, interrupted, The Crucible, Mermaids, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, just to name a few) and has appeared in some of the most iconic films of the eighties and nineties (e.g. Heathers, Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Reality Bites…etc) Also, not to mention she is a two time Academy Award nominee, Two time Golden Globe nominee (Mermaids, The Age of Innocence) and winner (The Age of Innocence)! So, why exactly is it you think she is a bad actor, again? Please explain if you can…

Posted by: DemonMeister at November 12, 2009 12:46 PM

Barry Pepper, really? He's done good stuff since Battlefield Earth (I mean, not much), but he was good in 25th Hour; We Were Soldiers, and The Three Burials of a name I can't pronounce because I'm the worst Puerto Rican ever. (You know, the Tommy Lee Jones one..)

Posted by: Reina at November 12, 2009 7:21 PM

When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story sounds like something the Fug Girls would make up in one of their posts with some starletard running around drunk with their drunk boytoy

Posted by: Annie_Reckson at November 12, 2009 9:17 PM

Sometimes people win awards only because there was no one else to give an award to.

I had a crush on Winona in the eighties just like everyone else, but not so much of a crush that I thought she was a great actress. Some of her scenes are cringe-worthy. Remember Dracula?

Posted by: imk at November 13, 2009 11:19 AM

@DemonMeister

Winona Ryder isn't a bad actress, but she's not what I would call a good actress, either. She's decent. She pretty much plays different facets of the same character. Some people find that character interesting, and that's fine. Other people, however, find that character to be nothing remarkable, which is the camp I fall into. I don't hate her, but I do go out of my way to avoid most of her work, because she's too bland for me to want to pay to see it.

The only reason I think she still has any kind of career is because she's cute. Now, there's lots of cute, decent actresses in Hollywood, but it seems like the majority of them are fake-tanned blond clones. By that token, Winona's pretty unique.

Posted by: Minty at November 13, 2009 4:32 PM

A Scanner Darkly, anyone? No?

Posted by: frank at November 15, 2009 6:03 AM

Hey. Jessica Biel is still doing fine thank you. And wiuth a new movie coming out where she is a stripper who ACTUALLY shows the goods. Thank for nothing by the way Lindsay Lohan.

Posted by: Squall at November 17, 2009 12:56 AM

greer-

I'm sure Winona was devastated when you "cut her loose".

Posted by: mikey at April 27, 2010 2:45 PM