North

North is a 1994 film directed by Rob Reiner, and starring Elijah Wood, Bruce Willis, Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Dan Aykroyd and Reba McEntire. The story is based on the novel North by Alan Zweibel, who also wrote the screenplay and has a minor role in the film. North received generally negative reviews, and flopped at the box office, earning about US$7 million for an estimated budget of US$40 million ; the film was a multiple nominee at the 1994 Golden Raspberry Awards. Film critic Roger Ebert seemed especially baffled by North, noting that Wood and especially Reiner had both previously made much better films. Ebert awarded North a rare "zero-stars" rating, and even ten years later it remains on his list of most hated films. His review included the now-famous statement: The review was later read at a roast for Reiner, who jokingly insisted that "if you read between the lines, it [the review] isn't really that bad." An abridged version of the review became the title of a... full article at wikipedia