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Biggest "All-Star Cast" ever???

posted 10 years ago by Chicken_Francese
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Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Brad Pitt, Gary Oldman, Val Kilmer, Michael Rapaport, Dennis Hopper, Christopher Walken, Chris Penn, Tom Sizemore, Victor Argo, James Gandolfini, Bronson Pinchot, Samuel L. Jackson, Saul Rubinek

I'm in no way saying this is the "best" cast ever, but when it comes to "star studded" (meaning that each of these actors I listed above have etched their names in the Hollywood landscape at one point in time), this movie has to be right up there, at least in my opinion.

Sooo, what I am asking is, can anybody come up with a better 'star studded' casted movie?

Can someone come up with a better one???

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[–] RecordBreaker84 10 years ago

The Thin Red Line, The Expendables 3, and The Player all have pretty good casts. True Romance is unique with how many big actors are in it that were relatively unknown at the time; Sam Jackson, Brad Pitt, James Gandolfini, Gary Oldman, Tom Sizemore, all up-and-coming when it came out.

[–] purplebear17 10 years ago

The films with the biggest all star casts are usually robert altman movies.

[–] davodikum (6197) 4 years ago

Yeah good point. The casting director deserves some big props for choosing all these relatively unknown future stars.

[–] anthony-nasti 10 years ago

JFK deserves a mention: Kevin Costner, Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Oldman, Kevin Bacon, Sissy Spacek, Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ed Asner, Donald Sutherland, Joe Pesci, Laurie Metcalf, John Larroquette (though his scene wasn't in the original cut), Vincent D'onoforio, Michael Rooker, John Candy, Sally Kellerman.

Like True Romance, it features a series of well know actors in minimal but very powerful roles.

[–] RecordBreaker84 10 years ago

That's a good one, I forgot about JFK. A more recent one would be The Grand Budapest Hotel.

[–] Chicken_Francese 10 years ago

You forgot Wayne Knight and Brian Doyle-Murray for "JFK".

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[–] Chicken_Francese 8 years ago

You forgot about Wayne Knight

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[–] jekporkins (1971) 4 years ago

I'd say JFK is the biggest for me... I mean, that movie alone is the gimme if you get desperate in the 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon.

[–] milamj09 10 years ago

Heat is loaded.

[–] GanzEhrlich 10 years ago

The Aviator and the LOTR trilogy have a lot of famous actors each.

[–] puschit-1 9 years ago

I think LotR doesn't count because most of them got their fame through LotR, or did you know guys like Elijah Wood, Sean Bean, Karl Urban and Viggo Mortensen before?

[–] clashwho (758) 4 years ago

Sean Bean had big roles in big movies long before Lord of the Rings. Patriot Games and GoldenEye, for example.

[–] JargonSmith17 10 years ago

Deconstructing Harry had a huge star-studded cast with huge stars like Robin Williams, Billy Crystal, Demi Moore, Kirstie Alley, Elisabeth Shue, Judy Davis, Stanley Tucci, Julia Louis Dreyfus, and Tobey Maguire as well as an unknown Jennifer Garner as the woman in the elevator.

[–] J'Ennui 10 years ago

Some of the responses to this post mention movies with plenty of already-famous/established stars. How about some movies with a plethora of future stars? The prime examples I often cite are:

"Fast Times at Ridgemont High" (Sean Penn, Forest Whittaker, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Phoebe Cates, Nicolas Cage, Eric Stoltz, Anthony Edwards, Taylor Negron, Judge Reinhold, Amanda Wyss, Kelli Maroney, etc.)...

"Dazed and Confused" (Matthew McConaughey, Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler, Milla Jovovich, Parker Posey, Adam Goldberg, Joey Lauren Adams, Nicky Katt, etc.), and...

"Empire Records" (Anthony LaPaglia, Renee Zellweger, Liv Tyler [again!], Rory Cochrane [again again!], Ethan Embry, Robin Tunney, etc.).

[–] purplebear17 9 years ago

Liv Tyler was not in dazed and confused.

[–] Chicken_Francese 8 years ago

I wasa thinking the same thing. I don't remember her in Dazed And Confused at all.

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[–] hubcap18 8 years ago

Some of the responses to this post mention movies with plenty of already-famous/established stars. How about some movies with a plethora of future stars?

The Faculty: Elijah Wood, Josh Hartnett, Clea DuVall, Jordana Brewster, Usher Raymond (though not famous for acting), Salma Hayek, Jon Stewart, Robert Patrick, Famke Janssen, Bebe Neuwirth, Shawn Hatosy

Some of the above were established adult actors, but many were future stars.
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[–] trevoressig 10 years ago

The answer is no. This is my favorite movie of all time and there are ample reasons why, the cast being one. Secondly name me another movie that displays so many different genres of cinema (mystery, romance, violence, sex, thriller) to go along with the memorable scenes true Romance holds. Any avid movie lover will quickly point out the Clarence-Drexl scene, Hopper/Walken, Brad Pitt, Galdofini/Arquette, and the finale. And thats just a few. and EVERYONE knows which scenes Im referring to. Shawsshank and Godfather 2 are some amazing films, but neither can demonstrate the attributes. never write on this site, but had to finally put my 2 cents in.

[–] TrapLordRonSwanson 9 years ago

I agree, but here's a few others:

L.A. Confidential
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
The Royal Tenenbaums
The Departed
Snatch
Magnolia
Boogie Nights
Gosford Park
Saving Private Ryan

[–] skeletoncrewpictures 9 years ago

If it wasn't for Tony Scott we would not have had this masterpiece. The director's cut of this film is as close to film perfection as you can get (sorry Jim). Quentin actually had Clarence die from the head shot at the end in his script. Tony thought it was too much and wanted the happy ending. So thanks to Tony it turned out to be an action fairy tail of sorts in stead of the Tarantino tragedy. It would have been good either way but at least you got to leave the theater not feeling like you did when Leo got shot in the face in the Departed. This was one of those films that was a great movie that didn't get as much studio push as it should have but did great on DVD.

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