Clint Eastwood would appear with Eastwood again in the poorly-received comedy "Pink Cadillac" (1989). The film is about a bounty hunter and a group of white supremacists chasing an innocent woman (Bernadette Peters) who tries to outrun everyone in her husband's prized pink Cadillac. The film failed both critically and commercially, earning barely more than "Bird" and marking a low point in Eastwood's career. Eastwood directed and starred in "White Hunter Black Heart" (1990), an adaptation of Peter Viertel's "roman à clef", about John Huston and the making of the classic film "The African Queen". Shot on location in Zimbabwe in the
Clint Eastwood in the 1990s murderer Frank Beechum (played by Isaiah Washington) execution. The film was a box office bomb domestically and Eastwood's worst performing film during the 1990s. Later in 1990 Eastwood directed and co-starred with Charlie Sheen in "The Rookie", a buddy cop action film. Critics found the macho jiving between Eastwood and Sheen unconvincing and scenario improbable, and believed that many of the actors were miscast. In 1991, for the third time in his career, Eastwood didn't appear in or direct any films. Instead he was a defendant in a lawsuit after he rammed a woman's car while backing out of his