 Budgeted at $50 million, the film earned about three times more at the box office, but was negatively reviewed by critics, and earned him a nomination for the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor.Todd McCarthy of "Variety" noted that his character is "too much the American Everyman" and "DiCaprio, while perfectly watchable," failed to give the character the unique marks to make him dimensional.In the mid 1990s, DiCaprio appeared in the mostly improvised short film called "Don's Plum" as a favor to aspiring director R. D. Robb.