Timothy Olyphant, in the movie Go, refers to the comic strip The Family Circus in this manner: “it’s always there, in the lower right hand corner, just waiting to suck.” This is one of my all-time favorite movie quotes, and it applies quite nicely when discussing Marci X. Completed in 2000, this is the film that the studio put on the shelf, all the while knowing that eventually they would have to do something with it, because there it was, looming in the corner, waiting to suck.

Finally... the studio decided to drop it into theaters in the middle of the summer blockbuster season of 2003, where it would get lost in the shuffle of bigger films, yet still make as much money as possible, despite its paltry promotion budget. The plan worked, the film recouped some of its costs (albeit less than half), and Paramount got on with their lives.