20 Terrible 2015 Movies That Should Never Have Happened

8. Accidental Love

The Plot: After small town waitress Alice (Jessica Biel) is brain damaged by a nail gun shot to the head, she heads to Washington to campaign for healthcare for those with peculiar injuries like herself, and becomes involved with an unscrupulous senator (Jake Gyllenhaal). Why It Shouldn't Exist: Because writer-director David O. Russell actually quit the project in 2010 mid-production after financial issues held up filming numerous times, and the film was in fact edited and "completed" without his permission, released last year with Russell disowning the film and "Stephen Greene" being credited as the director. It literally should not exist because there's no clear directorial vision: it was simply cobbled together to try and make a quick buck for the investors and rights owners, and the final product is a borderline-incoherent mess which surely none of the actors involved can be happy with. On the other hand, though, it seems unlikely that O. Russell was making a good film here either way, so it's probably just as well that he was able to disown it so easily.