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3 future Academy Award winners in this film


Nicholas Cage for Leaving Las Vegas
Forest Whitaker for The Last King of Scotland
Sean Penn for Mystic River and Milk

Not to mention Ray Walson was a Tony Award winner and Anthony Edwards a multiple Emmy Award winner

Not bad for a film that was pretty much just a spoof about the 80's

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It wasn't just a spoof of the '80's. It was actually the writer's/producer's and also the director's reminiscences of their senior high school experiences from the early 1960's. The writer/producer only got to produce the movie by the early 1980's. Although the director may've had some senior high school in the late 1950's!

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Damn I forgot Cage was in this, thats some serious silverware all these guys went on to get.

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