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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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[–] Robbmonster 9 years ago

My vote would have also gone to JFK - that cast just never ends. The original Superman also had an amazingly deep cast.

Other contenders are those old films designed specifically for all-star casts, such as It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, The Longest Day, or How the West was Won. Even modern ones like the Ocean's series.

As someone else said, True Romance is mainly exceptional for the amount of actors who were relatively unknown at the time, who went on to bigger and better things.

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[–] WaySheGoes 9 years ago

Black Hawk Down

[–] purplebear17 9 years ago

Animated films usually have all star casts but the animated film with the biggest all star cast is fantastic mr fox.

[–] Airjordan2288 9 years ago

Heat can compare to this as a great All Star Cast

Robert DeNiro
Al Pacino
Dennis Haysbert
Danny Trejo
Val Kilmer
Ashley Judd
William Fichtner
Ted Levine
Tone Loc
Mykelti Williamson
Henry Rollins
Jon Voight
Hank Azaria
Tom Sizemore
Amy Breneman
Natalie Portman
Tom Noonon

there are probably a few more I forgot

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[–] bishop-69757 9 years ago

True Romance, JFK and Heat would be up there. I will also throw in one more movie in the mix.

Pulp Fiction
Travolta
Jackson
Roth
Uma
Willis
Roseanna Arquette
Walken
Stoltz
Ving
Harvey
Plummer

[–] GreenGael 9 years ago

Another amazing cinematic showpiece with a cast made up of what seemed to be every actor who was on the scene at the time, was Lord Richard Attenborough’s 1977, A bridge Too Far:
Sean Connery
Gene Hackman
Robert Redford
James Caan
Michael Caine
Elliott Gould
Ryan O’Neal
Dirk Bogarde
Anthony Hopkins
Denholm Elliott
Maximillan Schell
Liv Ullman
Lawrence Olivier
John Ratzenberger

Another favourite of mine (being Irish!) was 1981’s Excalibur, directed by John Boorman, which included another impressive cast of largely unknown actors at that time (many of them straight off the stage):
Liam Neeson
Gabriel Byrne
Patrick Stewart
Nigel Terry
Helen Mirren
Colin Redgrave
Nicol Williamson
Clive Swift
Charley Boorman

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[–] dwyts 8 years ago

Gosford Park, I guess has a pretty nifty cast
But my fave will always be Short Cuts (Altman, again)

[–] hubcap18 8 years ago

There also Clooney's Oceans movies and one of my favorites, The Departed: Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jack Nicholson, Martin Sheen, Mark Wahlberg, Alec Baldwin, Vera Farmiga and Anthony Anderson

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[–] Chicken_Francese 8 years ago

You forgot Harvey Keitel, Julia Sweeney, Frank Whaley, Peter Greene, Steve Buscemi, Kathy Griffin, and QT himself.

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[–] Fairy_snuff (389) 8 years ago

All star cast doesn't always equal good film though.. Shark Tale is one that always sticks in my head for that with Will Smith, Renee Zellwegger, Robert DeNiro, Angelina Jolie, Jack Black and Martin Scorsese.

Luckily it did work with this film but I think whilst quite a few of the actors went on to be big names (like Patricia Arquette and Brad Pitt) they weren't really at the time.

[–] Wilson (879) 8 years ago

The Player has a pretty impressive cast.

Not that they do much but it is an impressive set of names.

[–] EricCartmanBrah (436) 8 years ago

The Grand Budapest Hotel is the biggest of them all.

[–] [email protected] (690) 7 years ago

I always think of the film Diner (1982), with Kevin Bacon, Mickey Rourke, Tim Daly, Steve Guttenberg, Daniel Stern, Ellen Barkin, and Paul Reiser. Not the biggest by far, but none of them were very well-known then and all went on to successful careers.

[–] Jes' Sayin' (6357) 4 years ago

Nobody ever remembers It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.