What movies have the greatest casts?

Let’s examine this a bit. How many of these cast members really became bona fide “stars” after movies like Fast Times and Dazed and Confused?

Fast Times at Ridgemont High
- Sean Penn
- Eric Stoltz (a stretch)
- Forrest Whittaker
- Anthony Edwards (maybe one speaking line)

Maybe Jennifer Jason Leigh (Single White Female and Hateful 8)? Phoebe Cates was in Gremlins post FTaRH, but that’s it.

Dazed and Confused:
- Matthew McConaughey
- Parker Posey
- Ben Affleck

Maybe Jeremy London, Joey Adams, Milla Jovovich, Adam Goldberg, Rory Cochrane, Cole Hauser. Maybe? Jeremy London, Joey Adams and Cole Hauser are on this list just because of Kevin Smith and/or Ben Affleck.

The Outsiders is a bit different. Pretty much that whole cast hit it big:
- Tom Cruise
- Patrick Swayze
- Emilio Estevez (was likely going to make popular movies anyway due to his family)
- Matt Dillon
- Rob Lowe
- Diane Lane
- C Thomas Howell
- Ralph Macchio

All great movies, but I’m not sure I agree with the premise that these casts went on to be great, except for The Outsiders.


How you gonna leave out my guy Nicholas Cage in Fast Times?
 
Beautiful Girls is an underappreciated 90's classic. Incredible cast.
Matt Dillon
Natalie Portman
Uma Thurman
Michael Rappaport
Timothy Hutton
Rosie O'Donnell
Mira Sorvino
And several others you'd recognize but not know their names.
 
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Taps

George C Scott ( a throwaway role really)


Sean Penn ( surprisingly not the psycho)

Tom Cruise (sucked to high heaven)

Ronny Cox (an old reliable if there ever was one).

Timothy Hutton (surprisingly considered the star in that era).
 
The Help

Emma Stone (two Oscars for best actress)
Viola Davis (triple crown winner with an Oscar, Emmy, and Tony)
Bryce Dallas Howard (bunch of nominations but not a lot of hardware)
Octavia Spencer (won best supporting actress for this role)
Jessica Chastain (one Oscar for best actress)
Allison Janney (no Oscar but a bunch of other awards)
 
The Graduate

Anne Bancroft
Dustin Hoffman
Katharine Ross
William Daniels
Murray Hamilton (mostly known as the ******* mayor from Jaws)
Elizabeth Wilson

Elaine May and Richard Dreyfuss also have VERY short cameos.
 
The Help

Emma Stone (two Oscars for best actress)
Viola Davis (triple crown winner with an Oscar, Emmy, and Tony)
Bryce Dallas Howard (bunch of nominations but not a lot of hardware)
Octavia Spencer (won best supporting actress for this role)
Jessica Chastain (one Oscar for best actress)
Allison Janney (no Oscar but a bunch of other awards)
You left out a lot.

Janney won Oscar for I, Tonya.

Sissy Spacek (Oscar winner)

Mary Steenbergen (Oscar winner)

Cicely Tyson (Oscar nominee)

Aunjeanue Ellis-Taylor (Oscar nominee)

Leslie Jordan (Emmy winner)

David Oyelowo (Multiple Emmy nominee)

Anna Camp (Pitch Perfect, etc)
 
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You left out a lot.

Janney won Oscar for I, Tonya.

Sissy Spacek (Oscar winner)

Mary Steenbergen (Oscar winner)

Cicely Tyson (Oscar nominee)

Aunjeanue Ellis-Taylor (Oscar nominee)

Leslie Jordan (Emmy winner)

David Oyelowo (Multiple Emmy nominee)

Anna Camp (Pitch Perfect, etc)

Yeah – I just hit the top of the bill but totally stacked.

I didn't know Janney won one for Tonya's mom!
 
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Keeping in the war movie theme of Midway and Dirty Dozen- one that flies under a lot of radars.. Gettysburg

Martin Sheen
Stephen Lang
Jeff Daniels
Tom Beringer
Sam Elliott
George Lazenby (in essentially a cameo role)
Ted Turner (another cameo role, since he essentially paid for the movie)
 
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Beautiful Girls is an underappreciated 90's classic. Incredible cast.
Matt Dillon
Natalie Portman
Uma Thurman
Michael Rappaport
Timothy Hutton
Rosie O'Donnell
Mira Sorvino
And several others you'd recognize but not know their names.
Great movie. Others include Martha Plimpton, David Arquette, Noah Emmerich, and beautiful Iowa girl Annabeth Gish.
 
Lauren Holly
Pruitt Taylor Vince
And Max Perlich, who most would probably recognize.

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"Accidentally walked in on Oswald being transferred" 2 days after posing as a newspaper reporter and attending the Oswald press conference in the same building (allegedly armed) and then returning on multiple occasions between then and the morning of the shooting. Whether or not he acted alone is another question entirely, but it hardly has the feel of a spur of the moment decision.
Ruby even tried to get in front of the Warren commission to spill the beans while he was in prison, but of course that didn't happen.

This needs a thread of it's own.
 
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Revenge of the Nerds ???

Robert Carradine as Lewis Skolnick
Anthony Edwards as Gilbert
Timothy Busfield as Poindexter
Curtis Armstrong as Booger
John Goodman as Coach Harris
Ted McGinley at Stan Gable
James Cromwell as Mr. Skolnick
Donald Gibb as Ogre
Bernie Casey as U.N. Jefferson
Andrew Cassese as Wormser
Larry B. Scott as Lamar Latrelle
Brian Tochi as Takashi
 
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