The Adventures of Pluto Nash is a 2002 American science fiction action comedy film directed by Ron Underwood and starring Eddie Murphy (in a dual role), Randy Quaid, Rosario Dawson, Joe Pantoliano, Jay Mohr, Luis Guzmán, James Rebhorn, Peter Boyle, Pam Grier, and John Cleese.

Businessman, entrepreneur, retired smuggler, and ex-convict Pluto Nash buys a nightclub in an attempt to fulfill his long-time wish and to prevent the murder of the club's previous owner, his old friend Anthony Frankowski, by mobsters Gino and his nephew, Larry.

Seven years later in 2087, a young woman named Dina Lake, the daughter of a friend of Pluto's, Nicky Sticks, is stranded on the Moon and needs to earn money for transport back to Earth.

Pluto is accosted by Mogan and Kelp, henchmen of mysterious entrepreneur and businessman Rex Crater, who wants to buy the club.

They are again attacked and chased by Crater's henchmen; they barely escape and are then rescued by Felix Laranga, a local smuggler who idolizes Pluto Nash.

Sometime later, a celebration is held at the fully renovated Club Pluto, where Dina puts on a performance as a singer, with Nash as the owner once again.

Murphy asked for a "straight" script, like one that would be written for Sylvester Stallone or Harrison Ford, and said that he would "bring the comedy."

Underwood delivered this to Murphy but believed that the script still had "problems" and hired another writer to continue to work on it during production.

A review of a version of the film (with no special effects) that was published on Ain't It Cool News in January 2001 did not help matters, as Castle Rock Entertainment became spooked and commissioned two weeks of reshoots in Los Angeles that pushed the film's budget to $100 million and miss a release date intended to be in April 2001.

"[10] Director Ron Underwood expressed regret that the movie didn't have a "core piece of storytelling like the mid-life crisis" and said he thinks "the film was not very good.

"[4] The Adventures of Pluto Nash was a box-office bomb, with its budget estimated at $100 million and domestic box office $4,420,080 and $2,683,893 overseas.