Three Actresses in Need of Movie Makeovers

April 12, 2010— -- Jennifer Aniston's canoodling across Europe with hunky co-star Gerard Butler generated plenty of headlines but little heat for the U.K. premiere of their movie "The Bounty Hunter."

According to the Daily Mail, the action-romance took in just $5.8 million last weekend when it opened in the U.K. Across the Atlantic, the film earned a decent $21 million during its opening weekend in the U.S., but critics roundly panned it.

For Aniston, it's another in a recent string of flops at the box office. Before "Bounty Hunter," there was "Love Happens," last year's romantic comedy with Aaron Eckhart, which only pulled in $22.9 million domestically. That was still far and above "Management," a dark comedy with Steve Zahn, also released in 2009, which earned a paltry $935,000 at the box office.

Perhaps it's time for Aniston to take a break from the "Rachel" friend-next-door-type roles she's played in her last several movies and try something different. Fellow actresses Katherine Heigl and Uma Thurman could also use a new direction.

All three have only to look at Sandra Bullock. After one too many romantic comedies, Bullock took a year-and-a-half break from acting. She came back with the Oscar drama "Crash." She also made a return to comedy that was more screwball than romantic in the 2009 hit "The Proposal." But it was her role as a tough Southern mom in the drama "The Blind Side" that appealed most to critics and her commercial audience -- and won her the ultimate prize, an Oscar.

ABCNews.com talked to Adam Markovitz, a film writer at Entertainment Weekly, to find out what movie makeover he would prescribe for Aniston, Heigl and Thurman.