Chairman of the Board (1998)

A surfer becomes the head of a major company.

Director:

Alex Zamm

Writers:

Al Septien (story), Turi Meyer (story)

Stars:

Scott 'Carrot Top' Thompson, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Larry Miller

3 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Scott 'Carrot Top' Thompson	...	Edison
Courtney Thorne-Smith	...	Natalie Stockwell
Larry Miller	...	Bradford McMillan
Raquel Welch	...	Grace Kosik
Mystro Clark	...	Ty
Jack Plotnick	...	Zak
Jack Warden	...	Armand McMillan
Estelle Harris	...	Ms. Krubavitch
Bill Erwin	...	Landers
M. Emmet Walsh	...	Freemont
Jack McGee	...	Harlan Granger
Glenn Shadix	...	Larry
Fred Stoller	...	Toby, McMillan Gate Guard
Taylor Negron	...	Mr Withermeyer
Patrick J. Clifton	...	Edison's Father

Storyline

A surfer and inventor Edison is chosen by his roommates to raise rent with his outrageous (and absurd) inventions. There's no luck in job interviews until he meets billionaire Armand McMillan, who likes him, and leaves his company after his death to Edison. Edison has a lot of success with his inventions while the company's competitors do all they can to destroy him.

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Plot Keywords:

surfer | inventor | surfing | tycoon | slacker | 

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Taglines:

Work sucks!

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Genres:

Comedy

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for crude and sex related humor and language

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

18 September 1998 (Singapore)

Also Known As:

Untitled Carrot Top Project

Box Office

Opening Weekend USA:

$181,233, 15 March 1998, Limited Release

Company Credits

Production Co:

101st Street Films,Aurora Productions,Trimark Pictures

Technical Specs

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Made $181,233 at box office domestically

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Goofs

When in the museum, Natalie indicates a picture of Jethro Tull, the inventor of the seed drill, though the picture shown is actually one of Nikola Tesla, inventor of AC current technology and electrical engineer.

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Quotes

Edison: [to Natalie] Hey I remember you, from the funeral!

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Connections

Referenced in I Hate Everything: the Search for the Worst: Smosh: The Movie (2015)

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Soundtracks

Woody
Written and Performed by Fred Green

User Reviews

The truth about "The Carrot Top Project"

This might cost me my life, but I'm willing to let the world know about the evil that goes on in this country. Five years ago, unnamed officials in this government decided upon the answer to the upcoming overpopulation problems that plague the future. They needed to get rid of the lowest levels, the poor, stupid, and scared. Essentially the same idea Hitler had. But this Holocaust wasn't as obvious as the one the Germany perpetrated generations ago. They decided to draw all of the unneeded masses to one place where they would be gassed. They would set one of these areas up in every town in the ghettos. To draw only the stupid and deranged, they would offer free passes to the worst film ever made.

This is where Carrot Top comes in to the picture. They gave him his own film. Purchased a trained monkey from the circus named "Alex Zamm" to direct it. Spent as much as it took to make it as bad as possible. Ruined the reputation of decent actors like Courtney Thorne Smith, Larry Miller, and Jack Warden (previously punished by being in the Problem Child series) who opposed the governments agendas for years. They just wrote a sequence of horribly clichéd scenes that allowed Carrot Top to improvise (I hope?) his sterilizingly bad comedy.

Then they would pump in the gas. It was going to be a simple and quick executions. The bodies buried in Greenland. Thousands flocked, thousands died, no one knows. Fear them, they show us Carrot Top everyday on TV to numb us, to stupefy us, to keep us dumb and easy to oppress. I must go, the government has probably traced my wearabouts through my IP address by now, I must flee Berlin! Down with the regime!