Supernova 2000, Rated PG-13 MGM Home Entertainment

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Stop me if you've heard this one before: a group of people on an isolated spaceship answer a distress call deep in space and it turns out to a power-mad human (Peter Facinelli) who has been driven to new heights of insanity and strength by an alien object of 9th dimensional matter. The leads are the doctor and co-pilot (James Spader and Angela Bassett), who bicker for a while until they suddenly have chemistry. Also on board are a couple (Robin Tunney and Lou Diamond Phillips) who want to have a baby, a chess-playing computer whiz (Wilson Cruz) and the Captain (Robert Forster). Troubled hardly seems like an adequate word to describe the production of Supernova. $30 million over budget and put together by a revolving door of talent so lengthy that I could swear this started out as an Otto Preminger project sometime in the '70s, Supernova looked like the work of one supremely untalented film-school drop-out who managed to blackmail a studio exec into green-lighting his insanely dumb little project with relatively "A" list stars.