2. Mary Corleone - The Godfather Part III
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UYLVBwnzws After the likes of Winona Ryder and Julia Roberts were unavailable for the role of Michael Corleone's daughter Mary, Francis Ford Coppola decided to stop looking for other actresses and chose to cast his daughter, Sofia, who is of course now famous as a director. The results? Not good. The various plot strands - namely her tumultuous relationship with her father and an odd relationship with her cousin - are rendered moot by Coppola's infamous performance, which is so stifled and amateur it's amazing even the director's powers of nepotism held up. Mary as a result is a supremely annoying character, and when she gets shot through the chest at the film's climax, Coppola can't even die particularly well. The lack of conviction with which she spouts the line, "Dad?", is staggering, but at least she dies I suppose, and the fact it's so brutally in-your-face makes it a demise we're glad to see on-screen.
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