Chris Pratt’s 2013: From Best Picture to Worst Ever

In the landscape of Hollywood careers, 2013 was a "Jekyll and Hyde" year for Chris Pratt. Before he was Star-Lord or Owen Grady, Pratt was a versatile character actor who managed to bookends his resume with two films that couldn't be further apart in quality.

The year in question is 2013, and the movies are Spike Jonze's soulful masterpiece Her and the universally reviled anthology comedy Movie 43.

The Best: Her (2013)

While Joaquin Phoenix carries the emotional weight of Her as a man who falls in love with an AI, Chris Pratt provides the film’s essential human groundedness.

• The Role: Pratt plays Paul, Theodore’s upbeat and supportive office colleague.

• The Critical Reception: Her holds a 94% on Rotten Tomatoes and was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture. It won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.

• The Impact: Pratt’s performance in Her (alongside his role in 2012's Zero Dark Thirty) proved to casting directors that the "funny guy from Parks and Rec" had the range to hold his own in prestigious, high-concept dramas.

The Worst: Movie 43 (2013)

Released just months apart from Her, Movie 43 is a project that many A-list actors—including Kate Winslet, Hugh Jackman, and Emma Stone—likely wish would vanish from their IMDb pages.

• The Role: In a segment titled "The Proposition," Pratt stars opposite his then-wife Anna Faris. The sketch is infamous for its scatological humor, featuring a plot where Faris’s character asks Pratt’s character to defecate on her as a sign of commitment.

• The Critical Reception: The film was a critical catastrophe, earning a dismal 5% on Rotten Tomatoes. It "won" three Golden Raspberry Awards (Razzies), including Worst Picture, and is frequently cited on "Worst Movies of All Time" lists.

• The Infamy: Movie 43 is often studied as a Hollywood anomaly—a film so bafflingly bad that it became a cult curiosity specifically because of how many talented people were involved in its failure.

A Tale of Two 2013s

Why This Happened

At the time, Pratt was still in his "breakout" phase. Movie 43 had actually been filmed in segments over several years (starting as early as 2009), while Her was filmed during Pratt’s rapid ascent in 2012.

Because of the messy production timeline of Movie 43, it happened to land in theaters the exact same year Pratt was being lauded for his work in "prestige" cinema. By the following year, 2014, he would lead The LEGO Movie and Guardians of the Galaxy, officially leaving the "face-pooping sketches" in his rearview mirror forever.

Source - https://en.softonic.com/articles/sometimes-we-forget-but-chris-pratt-appeared-in-the-same-year-in-one-of-the-best-and-one-of-the-worst-movies-of-the-21st-century

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