Movies with amazing casts

The Secret of NIMH

R1, good one! I was obsessed with that film as a kid, and yes, its cast is amazing.

They Shoot Horses, Don't They? w/Jane Fonda, Bruce Dern, Gig Young, Red Buttons, Bonnie Bedelia, Susannah York, Michael Sarrazin, and Al Lewis.

Killer Joe (2011).

Thomas Haden Church, Emile Hirsch, Gena Gershon, Juno Temple and McConaughey are ALL extremely convincing as scheming, amoral Texas trash. It's one of the best ensemble movies I've seen.

Manhattan Murder Mystery

The cast of1974's Murder on the Orient Express was FANTABULOUS!

The VIPs: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Louis Jourdan, Margaret Rutherford, Maggie Smith, Rod Taylor, Orson Welles, Robert Coote, David Frost, Richard Wattis, Michael Hordern.

American Hustle. Even the "lesbian" ADA from Law & Order was good.

I just watched Manhattan Murder Mystery and there were so many Sopranos actors in that: Hesh, Janice, etc.

Joy Behar popped up.

Basic Instinct

R9 - I watched it again a few years ago and it was a pleasant surprise to also see Zach Braff as well - and Marge Redmond (from The Flying Nun)

Yeah, count me in with Orient Express. They even get a curtain call at the end.

Otto Preminger's Anatomy of a Murder w/ Lee Remick, George C. Scott, Eve Arden, Jimmy Stewart, Ben Gazzara, Kathryn Grant and Arthur O'Connell all at their considerable best,

Seath on the Nile 1978 Mia Farrow, Maggie Smith, Angela Lansbury, Bette Davis . . .

The Departed.

These chicks...

No one has mentioned "The Women" yet? I think it's wrong. Shockingly wrong!

No one has mentioned "The Women" yet? I think it's wrong. Shockingly wrong!

and the remake with Annette Benning, Bette Midler, Carrie Fisher, Eva Mendes, Candice Bergen, Meg Ryan, Cloris Leachman, Debra Messing, Debi Mazar and Jada Pinkett Smith

Porky’s Revenge!

Alice in Wonderland is always a good opportunity for an all star cast. I enjoyed this one from the late 90s with Miranda Richardson as the Queen of Hearts and Whoopi as the Cheshire cat. There was also the 80s version with Carol Channing turning into a goat. We used to have proper films, nowadays it's a bunch of Charlie nobodys!

Even with that cast, the remake/update of "The Women" stank.

Glengarry Glen Ross

Urban Cowboy

Thelma and Louise

The Sting

Clue

MBD

For a lot of the ensemble all-star cast films from around the 1970s, you could better served watching a good line-up night of Dick Cavett or Johnny Carson or a catty episode of Night Gallery where there was the hint of spontaneity - in place of overacted lines by old stars who needed some easy cash.

The Hours: Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, Nicole Kidman, Ed Harris, Toni Collette, Claire Danes, Jeff Daniels, Allison Janney, Miranda Richardson, Margo Martindale

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The Howling.

Mentioned above...

Mrs. Doubtfire

Boys Dont Cry!

All of Woody Allen's films

Casablanca

The Godfather

Just about to post "The Godfather," r34!

"The Longest Day." Cast in no particular order:

Death Becomes Her

Showgirls

You know it’s true.

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No one has mentioned "Alien"?

Possibly the best cast of any horror film, with "Creepshow" coming in a close second.

The original "Night of the Living Dead" cast was all unknowns, few of whom went on to anything else, but it wouldn't be the movie it is without them.

[quote] This might seems strange, but Creepshow and The Dark Crystal are films from my childhood that I watch again and again and this is largely due to the performances.

You're counting films with mostly puppets?

All About Eve, seriously.

R41, it's a great film, but with the exception of Addison DeWitt, the male performances suck.

R40, puppetry is not performance?

R62 is correct. Murder on the Orient Express is BORING compared to the other Poirot movies.

"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" and "How to Marry a Millionaire".

THE SENTINEL (1977)

Cristina Raines, Chris Sarandon, Ava Gardner, Burgess Meredith, Beverly D'Angelo, Jeff Goldblum, Christopher Walken, John Carradine, Sylvia Miles, Deborah Raffin, Tom Berenger, Martin Balsam, José Ferrer, Eli Wallach, Nana Visitor, Jerry Orbach and Richard Dreyfuss as an extra!

Crash tee hee

R46, shitty film, but a great cast. And yes, they gave it their all.

Fun fact, two of my friends live in the old mansion where the film was made.

True Confessions

R14 I often seethe on the Nile

R42 I found Gary Merrill’s was the weakest performance in All About Eve, especially one scene where his character discusses theater with Eve in Margo’s dressing room. Celeste Holm described Davis’ and Merrill’s behavior as generally awful during the filming. They also appeared in film called Another Man’s Poison, set in the UK, and Merrill is better in that second film.

All About Eve a really cool old film, though.

Anora. I just watching it last night and every actor was amazing across the board. I was so impressed.

[quote]All About Eve a really cool old film, though.

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Judgment at Nuremberg

A Time to Kill

Matthew McCantspellhislastname, Samuel L Jackson, Donald Sutherland, Patrick McGoohan, Ashley Judd, Kevin Spacey, Sandra Bullock, Oliver Platt, Charles Dutton…

I love cats too. So cute

Knives Out had a great cast, even though the movie itself was meh.

Bonus: One of the most embarrassingly bad accents by way of Daniel Craig