Big Bang Theory Actors Who Starred In Box Office Bombs

Just like his co-star Kaley Cuoco, Johnny Galecki’s time on «The Big Bang Theory» is among his career’s biggest highlights, and much like Cuoco, it’s a career that goes back long before the CBS sitcom first aired. Though he’s now best remembered as Leonard Hofstadter, there are plenty of other underrated gems in Galecki’s acting career, like the 1997 film «Suicide Kings.»

Starring alongside the likes of Christopher Walken and Sean Patrick Flanery in the gritty black comedy, Galecki’s character of Ira Reder becomes embroiled in his friends’ desperate attempt to come up with $2 million in ransom money after one of their sisters is kidnapped. With no way to make the money legally, they opt for a little kidnapping themselves, taking former criminal kingpin Charlie Barret (Walken) hostage and forcing him to help them get what they need.

It turns out that Ira and friends weren’t the only ones a few million short because by the time «Suicide Kings» finished its run through theaters, it only pulled in a lowly $1.7 million against a budget of $5 million. Heaps of sour reviews from critics certainly didn’t help, but are strikingly at odds with a favorable opinion from audiences over the years, making «Suicide Kings» one of the most underrated box office bombs from the cast of «The Big Bang Theory.»