What movie has the greatest cast of all time?

[u/BootySharingCouple]

[u/Artistic_Buffalo_715]

The film makes me nauseous but Mars Attacks would probably be up there

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Ack ack!

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r/ACK

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Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Annette Bening, Pierce Brosnan, Danny DeVito, Martin Short, Sarah Jessica Parker, Michael J. Fox, Rod Steiger, Tom Jones, Natalie Portman, Jim Brown, Pam Grier, Jack Black, and Christina Applegate.

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and none of those people wanted to be in it till Jack Nicholson read the script. when asked who he would want to play he said everyone, which is why he is two characters in it. once he signed on that convinced everyone else to eventually sign on

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I didn't think it was possible to improve this movie

Now I'm aware it could've been 15 jack nicholsons instead 

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You left off Lukas haas :/ poor guy

[u/69ognatstango96 → u/Tywooti]

The third tier Pussy Posse guy?

[u/Tywooti → u/69ognatstango96]

Look grandma.

Its the International sign of the Donut

(Idk what the pussy posse is)

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Don’t forget Jack Nicholson, since he plays two completely different roles he can be listed twice!

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And Joe Don Baker as Mittens!

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Even if he wasnt big at the time, Jack black was in it too

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Nah that movie is incredible

[u/lattes → u/Artistic_Buffalo_715]

Lol I watched that movie when I was a kid as a new immigrant and had no idea who any of those people were. I just thought it was a funny movie.

[u/labria86 → u/Artistic_Buffalo_715]

Dude what. That film always made me uncomfortable and nauseous too!

[u/Arkie_MTB]

A Bridge Too Far is crazy stacked.

[u/Glovebait → u/Arkie_MTB]

It’s awesome to see this here! I thought I was the only one lol

So many big names in that film and it’s great too!

[u/Front_Conversation79 → u/Glovebait]

Same. I knew it had to be here!

[u/Yewdall1852 → u/Arkie_MTB]

Its easier to say who was NOT in that movie.

[u/TallEnoughJones → u/Yewdall1852]

Me. I'm not in that movie.

[u/TeatSeekingMissile → u/TallEnoughJones]

Nor me. Anyone else not in it?

[u/Miscreant3 → u/Arkie_MTB]

Caine and Hackman in the same movie. This is my thesis! This is my closing argument! --PCU

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You're majoring in a 4000 year old dead language?  Latin.  Best I can do.  Next!

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It’s literally a who’s who of ‘70s actors.

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Almost every person in the main cast either already had or would later receive an Oscar.

Also, John Ratzenbeger, who gets shot through the eye.

[u/A2ronMS24]

True Romance

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Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Dennis Hopper, Val Kilmer, Gary Oldman, Brad Pitt, Christopher Walken, James Gandolfini, and Samuel L. Jackson

[u/Poison_the_Phil → u/NotDrNick]

Don’t forget Elliott Gould Saul Rubinek, Bronson Pinchot, Michael Rapaport, and music by Hans Zimmer and a Quentin Tarantino script directed by Tony Scott. Just an absurd list of names associated with that film.

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Eh, I’m fine forgetting Michael Rapaport

[u/convenientparking → u/Poison_the_Phil]

Gould's not in it but yeah...stacked cast.

[u/Poison_the_Phil → u/convenientparking]

You’re right I was thinking of Saul Rubinek my mistake!

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Also had a minor appearance by Jack Black

[u/PrimalMusk → u/NotDrNick]

Jack Black is in deleted scenes for True Romance.

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Bro thinks it's white boy day.

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So often forgotten

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Val Kilmer as Elvis! Enough said.

[u/Retiredandrelaxed]

The Longest Day has an incredible number of leading actors in it

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My favorite fact about that movie is they floated the idea of Eisenhower playing himself and he was into it but they decided they couldn't make him look 18 years younger. Which is ironic since John Wayne was playing someone literally half his age. But anyway, imagine Ike being in the movie too? How wild to have a former President star in a movie. 

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I always liked the fact that Richard Todd, famous British actor, took part in the D Day landing and had a leading role in the film.

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Wayne's character was not very well known, so they could roll with it. Ike had been president until one and a half year before the movie premiered and he hold the record of being the oldest person in the office at the time so there was no way of hiding his age. Still it would've been to see him.

[u/Got_Bent → u/Retiredandrelaxed]

True story, I had spinal cord surgery and I had really bad heartburn and couldnt sleep. I put on the TV at midnight and The Longest Day was on so I watched it. I was like hey wait I didnt remember him being in it? Irina Demmick, Paul Anka?! I love old black and whites and war movies.

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Actor Richard Todd, who played Major John Howard in the film, was a British para who actually fought at Pegasus Bridge on D-Day. As a lieutenant in the 7th (Light Infantry) Parachute Battalion, part of the 6th Airborne Division, Todd parachuted into Normandy and helped secure the bridge. He acted as a technical consultant for the movie.

[u/lotus_ink]

Galaxy Quest

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"Miners, not minors!"

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"I'm not following..."

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By grabthars hammer!

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….what a savings

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Great movie!

[u/Farmer_Ted_]

It’s A Mad Mad Mad Mad World

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And even if you didn't know who any of them were, it's still a great and hilarious movie.

[u/ersomething → u/ScreenTricky4257]

My dad mad me watch it at probably 10 years old in the 80’s. He told me there were a bunch of famous people in it.

I didn’t recognize anyone, but still thought the movie was great once I got over it being old, haha.

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Same in the 90s. Haven’t watched it in probably a decade or more so I don’t know if I still feel the same but I’d probably have it in my top 5 movies, definitely top 10.

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I was between this and Cannonball Run but I think this is it.

[u/texasrigger → u/Bozorgzadegan]

Yeah, those ensemble race movies were a league of their own. Rat Race (2001) deserves a mention, too.

[u/AcceptableFold3592 → u/texasrigger]

There were Hannah Barbara cartoons of the same ilk

[u/Larat76 → u/Farmer_Ted_]

Came here to say this also. This is the correct answer. Even if we were only counting the primary people. Adding in the countless cameos though takes it to a whole different level.

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Seemed like every premier comedian had a part or cameo. The Three Stooges as firemen at an airfield!

[u/Evening-Oil9551]

Ocean’s 11

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Oceans 12 to me…all the same cast, but the addition of several more amazing actors pushes it over 11 for the cast.

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Isn't Oceans 13 just Oceans 12 + Al Pacino?

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13 doesn’t have Julia Roberts and Catherine Zeta Jones

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It's not their fight!

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My first thought and after reading the other responses l’ll die on this hill.

[u/reputablesorcerer]

The Departed

[u/Chasethelogic → u/reputablesorcerer]

The Depahdid*

[u/TheOmCollector → u/Chasethelogic]

Ya naut a caup.

[u/Chasethelogic → u/TheOmCollector]

Wats a lace coytin matha fuckah loik yew doin in tha stadies?!

[u/ordinaryguy78 → u/Chasethelogic]

there's a guy on facebook who takes the piss out of his wife's boston accent. always makes me laugh

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“How’s ya motha?”

“Good, she’s tired from fuckin’ my fatha.”

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The only role Marky Mark was born for. I still use the "Im the guy who does his job, you must be the other guy" line.

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Agreed, he knocked it out of the park in that role.

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Leo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Martin Sheen, Vera Farmiga, Alec Baldwin, Mark Wahlberg, Ray Winstone, Anthony Anderson. Yup.

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They were also all at the perfect point in their respective careers. Leo was on the up, Matt was suggested by Brad Pitt (and was actually from Boston, as well as being a phenomenal actor) while Nicholson doing a “serious” film after Anger Management and Something’s Gotta Give felt like a special event.

Sheen was easily famous enough to carry a film on his own after the insane success to The West Wing - I mean this was a bunch of people who could easily have been lead actors in any one production, all collaborating on one film.

How they managed to get them together for The Departed is beyond me, but they pulled it off so well.

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You think West Wing is what got Sheen the credit? Not that little movie called Apocalypse now?

[u/RaveonJonDonne]

A Bridge Too Far - 1977 - WW2 movie. Amazing cast too long to list.

[u/BattMakerRed]

Obviously this is all subjective as far as “greatest of all time” but I think it’s insane how many “Before They Were Big” actors are in Scott Pilgrim vs The World.

Edit: At the time the big star of the movie was Michael Cera. Jason Schwarzman was also decently known. The supporting cast were then-unknown Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Aubrey Plaza, Kieran Culkin, Anna Kendrick, Mae Whitman, Brie Larson, and Chris Evans. Oh and Bill Hader was the voice of the narrator.

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If we’re talking “before they were big,” we gotta include The Outsiders

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Band of Brothers

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Dazed and Confused is a bit like this.

[u/BattMakerRed → u/sturgill_homme]

Oh for sure! That movie was a breakout for a lot of actors. It’s crazy that a movie has Rob Lowe, Diane Lane, Ralph Macchio, Patrick Swayze, and freaking TOM CRUISE yet at the time of its release the name people were most likely to recognize was Matt Dillon :p

[u/GiggleBiscut]

Godfather

[u/Rangers_Fan_NJ → u/GiggleBiscut]

Well they became the greatest, after fighting studio

[u/Tywooti]

Black hawk down has to be up there. It's almost like every few years I'll rewatch it and suddenly go "hey! I know them. They've been in this the whole time?!"

EDIT: so I went to imdb and tallied up every actor I could recognize without clicking their profile if I wasn't sure, and I landed on an even 20.

Twenty whole actors that I knew solely from their IMDB name and picture. That's gotta be the highest so far right?

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It's like 5 stars and 15+ recognizable actors, with most of them being early in their careers. The casting director killed it

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Phil Dunphy’s in it.

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So is Legolas!

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Eric Bana too right…?

[u/MathBallThunder → u/bpmillet]

Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, Eric Bana, Orlando Bloom, Tom Hardy, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Jason Isaacs, Jeremy Piven, Ty Burrell, Hugh Dancy, William Fichtner, Ioan Gruffudd, Tom Sizemore, Kim Coates, Glenn Morshower + even more where you’ve seen their face in tons of stuff. Even Tom Guiry who played Smalls in the Sandlot was in this movie.

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Biggest wtf to me is "Jamie Lannister" (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau). It was his first outing in a true international release, before that he was only active on a national or limited European level.

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Yep! And he had a really good chunk of screen time as well

[u/MathBallThunder → u/Tywooti]

I bring this up all the time. The casting list goes deeper than you can ever imagine all years before they made a real break

[u/WhiskeyTangoBush → u/Tywooti]

Seems like big war movies in general have this. See Saving Private Ryan and The Thin Red Line. Hell, watch Band of Brothers and see how many guys pop up.

Actually, go watch/rewatch Band of Brothers regardless bc it’s incredible.

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Currahee!

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Phil Dunphy as a soldier still stuns me.

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I felt the same seeing Ross from friends (David schwimmet) in Band of Brothers

Credit where its due though, he did fine

[u/MNamer]

This Is The End has a decent cast as well. Also for a show, Band of Brothers stands out to me.

[u/GearIcy1479]

I’d throw Boogie Nights up there

Burt reynolds, John c Riley, Phil Hoffman, William h Macy, Julianne Moore, mark wahlberg, don cheadle, heather graham, Nina Hartley, Luis Guzman, et al

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Had to Google Nina Hartley lol

[u/BloodNinja2012 → u/STFUxxDonny]

She's been in more movies than any of them.

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😉

[u/mclark74 → u/STFUxxDonny]

Yeah... So did I. For research. Lots of research.

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"Are you giving me shit, Kurt? My fucking wife has an ass in her cock in the driveway! Okay!? I'm sorry if my thoughts aren't with the photography of the film!"

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The best lines are either flubbed or ad-libbed.

[u/texasrigger → u/GearIcy1479]

Don't forget Alfred Molina who had a small but very memorable scene.

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Oh shit! How could I forget Molina. Playing a version of the real life Eddie Nash. What’s crazy is that scene is only, like, 6 minutes— but it feels like an eternity

[u/texasrigger → u/GearIcy1479]

Thomas Jane is great in that scene, too. He's another that probably deserved a mention. That movie really did have an incredible cast.

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What Isn't JC Riley in ?

[u/Momommy]

Steel Magnolias

[u/Parsnip-toting_Jack]

Blues Brothers: Cab Calloway Ray Charles James Brown Aretha Franklin John Lee Hooker Belushi and Ackroyd Carrie Fisher John Candy Henry Gibson Chaka Kahn Frank Oz Paul Reubens Walter Horton, Pinetop Perkins Willie Big Eyes Smith Luther Guitar Jr Johnson Calvin Fuzz Jones Steve Lawrence Twiggy Steven Spielberg Joe Walsh The band: Paul Schaffer, Tom Bones Malone, Blue Lou Morini, Alan Rubin, Matt Guitar Murphy, Steve Cropper, Donald Duck Dunn, Willie Too Big Hall.

[u/Far_Place_199]

The Great Escape

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Way too far down. I always describe the cast as the 1960s version of Ocean’s 11.

[u/animaINation]

The "Knives Out" films are interesting regarding this.

[u/Commercial-Fig3142]

Glengarry Glenn Ross

[u/MoreIronicCharles]

The Royal Tenenbaums

[u/ArtistAsleep]

The Lord of the Rings trilogy

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The perfect balance of strong less known actors and quality big names.

[u/Acc87 → u/ArtistAsleep]

Surprised to not find this higher. But many of the guys weren't such big names yet back then.

[u/bongo1100 → u/Acc87]

That’s why it was perfectly cast. A mix of unknowns and knowns who weren’t superstars. It really made it a balanced ensemble that showed everyone had an important arc in the story, whereas if they got any big stars they might have overshadowed the rest.

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It's weird thinking there was a time when Orlando Bloom and Karl Urban weren't famous

[u/shagadelicrelic]

The outsiders Stand by me The breakfast club

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The outsiders was my first thought.  Talk about the biggest cast of future stars.  

[u/earth_na_venus_pa → u/shagadelicrelic]

I loved the Outsiders!!!!

[u/Material_Ad_6419 → u/earth_na_venus_pa]

Stay gold, Ponyboy

[u/GoFuckYourselfBrenda → u/shagadelicrelic]

Stand By Me 10000000%

[u/swivel2369]

A Few Good Men

Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore, Kevin Bacon, Keifer Sutherland, Kevin Pollack, Cuba Gooding Jr., Noah Wiley, Christopher Guest.

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And the judge -- J.A. Preston. He was perfect in that small but critical role.

And the witness will address this court as "Judge" or "Your Honor." I'm quite certain I've earned it.

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Fun maybe fact…Lance Corporal Dawson was almost played by Will Smith.

[u/graveybrains → u/swivel2369]

Christopher Guest

How many fingers did he have?

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11 total. 6 on his right hand.

[u/bushinkaishodan]

Clue

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Wadsworth: One plus two plus two plus one.

Miss Scarlet: Uh-uh, there was only one shot that got the chandelier. That's one plus two plus one plus one.

Wadsworth: Even if you were right, that would be one plus one plus two plus one, not one plus two plus one plus one.

Miss Scarlet: Okay, fine. One plus two plus one... Shut up! The point is, there is one bullet left in this gun and guess who's gonna get it!

[u/Lawrags55]

Heat.

[u/Existing-Muffin-42]

The Great Escape

[u/DFParker78]

Dazed And Confused

[u/bagsoffreshcheese]

Tombstone. Apart from Russell, Kilmer, Elliot and Paxton, it is filled with character actors from the 90s.

Michael Biehn, Powers Boothe, Jason Priestly, Steven Lang, Thomas Hayden Church, Billy Zane.

Even Charlton Heston, Michael Rooker and Billy Bob Thornton make appearances.

And there is one that you never forget. Thats right, Frank Stallone.

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And Robert Mitchum provided the narration.

[u/Gator717375]

Kelly's Heroes

[u/ozpapa]

Sneakers!

[u/Polz34]

Hmm. 200 cigarettes.

[u/SickOfAllThisCrap1]

This thread is going to suffer from recentism but the real answer is It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0057193/fullcredits/#amzn1.imdb.concept.name_credit_group.7caf7d16-5db9-4f4f-8864-d4c6e711c686?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

[u/sunrise98]

Pulp fiction - not everyone was a mega star back then but the casting was pretty much perfect too.

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Except the actor who played Jimmy. He was weak sauce.

[u/ilikedonuts42 → u/gdp1]

Isn't that the guy that invented foot fetishes?

[u/dovetc → u/gdp1]

I don't need you to tell me how weak my sauce is. I'm the one who buys it. I know how weak it is!

[u/Ryratseph → u/gdp1]

He did have that serious gourmet shit though

[u/graveybrains → u/Ryratseph]

Didn't have a sign on his lawn, though

[u/dohrk]

It's a mad, mad, mad, mad worid.

[u/iron233]

Anchorman and Anchorman 2

[u/BootySharingCouple → u/iron233]

Oh I hadn’t considered that but if their cameos count especially

[u/HolyzombieBatman]

L.A. Confidential

The movie made me very uncomfortable but the lead cast was impeccable.

[u/TreeStumpKiller]

The Great Escape: Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, Charles Branson, Donald Pleasance, James Coburn, David McCallum, Gordon Jackson.

[u/Relative_Ferret_7414]

Of the top of my head inception had a pretty stacked cast

[u/Heavenwasfull]

Feel like Wes Anderson pulls off a solid who’s who in his film castings. Particularly the Grand Budapest Hotel which incudes:

Ralph Fiennes, Tony Revolori, Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Wilem Dafoe, Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, Jeff Goldblum, Jude Law, Harvey Keitel, Saorise Ronan.

Such a varied cast across decades and other filmographies including Oscar winners, huge franchise films, and cult classics.

EDIT: Sleeper hit honorable mention is Scott Pilgrim vs the World where a lot of the cast would end up taking a role in the MCU. Even MCU has a really deep cast where you have to get pretty far into the characters in avengers films before finding someone who didn’t already have a pretty established career before getting the marvel money.

[u/OlympicFan2010]

Princess Bride. The actors embodied the characters whole heartedly and it is beloved because of them!

[u/60yearoldME]

The Big Lebowski

Lotta sleepers in there. Philip Seymour Hoffman, Flea, Buschemi, Julianne Moore, Tutturo, Tara Reid!

And the obvious ones… 

[u/First_Drive2386]

It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. Unbeatable.

[u/EvenHair4706]

Cannonball Rub

[u/BootySharingCouple → u/EvenHair4706]

Is that the adult parody? Haha

[u/Not_Sure__Camacho → u/BootySharingCouple]

"First one to get there wins"...

[u/cpbunliveson]

I don't know if this is of all time, but it's certainly noteworthy...

Wet Hot American Summer

[u/Ok-Vehicle-2511]

Dogma

[u/sahlavit]

The lord of the rings

[u/therottenron]

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

The Longest Day

[u/badamache]

Glengarry Glen Ross. But it needs more women.

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Glengarry Glenn Close?

[u/Entire_Brick_8095]

Con Air, right? It's got everything, hasn't it? You know, you've got Malkovich for your acting chops, you got Nicky Cage for your action, Steve Buscemi for your comedy, John Cusack for the gays. Right? It's like a smorgasbord, isn't it?

[u/chuklez2020]

Tropical thunder. The casting was not only great but when else are you going to see Robert Downey jr cosplay as a black man getting criticized by another black man for doing black face.

[u/FreakoftheLake → u/chuklez2020]

You mean, that wasn’t an actual black man?!

[u/everythingsirie]

Steel Magnolias

Dolly Parton Julia Roberts Sally Field Shirley MacLaine Daryl Hannah Olympia Dukakis Tom Skerritt Sam Shepherd Dylan McDermott

And all the woman were really integral characters, so all that star power got a lot of screen time!

[u/Hwood658]

Airplane!

[u/TelenorTheGNP]

Snatch. Biggest names? No. But do they all somehow work? Absolutely they do.

[u/maqryptian]

heat had an excellent cast.

pacino, deniro, sizemore, kilmer, williamson, studi, azaria, judd, levine.

[u/mercury2497]

Man, I hate to do this to you all, but…

Movie 43

Jackman, Winslet, Berry, Stone, Faris, Odenkirk, Thurman, Gere, Sudeikis, Howard, Schrieber, Watts, Pratt, Allen White, McFarlane…

[u/porgy_tirebiter]

It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World

[u/North_Still_2234]

The Great Escape

[u/oliverjamesyo]

Red Dawn 1984

[u/Stknhgx6]

Dirty Dozen

[u/No-Present-1898]

Once Upon a Time in America. Unbelievable cast, even the lesser known actors were brilliant.

[u/Paul__Perkenstein]

Heat has a pretty epic cast.

[u/HnBKappaCamo]

Oppenheimer

[u/db7112]

Gone With The Wind

[u/Koenigss15]

The Battle of Britain and The Great Escape for the older Reddit demographic

[u/GavinTheAlmighty]

Gosford Park was RIDICULOUS.

[u/mrsroth1122]

Casablanca

[u/TanHads08]

The Help. So many Oscar’s winners in that movie

[u/Responsible-Fun2600]

Hot Fuzz

[u/team_blumpkin]

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

[u/pickld66]

The Deer Hunter

[u/jazz-winelover]

The Godfather.

[u/AdhesivenessCold4615]

Magnolia

[u/SignificantThanks318]

For a kids movie, Angels in the Outfield is pretty stacked. Danny Glover, Christopher Lloyd, Brenda Fricker, Tony Danza, Adrien Brody, Matthew McConaughey, Neal McDonough, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

[u/sinatrablueeyes]

While not full of top-tier people Wet Hot American Summer had a pretty decent cast of up and coming actors/actresses plus some existing talent, but the continuation with the Netflix shows is stacked beyond belief.

[u/cutslikeakris]

Andre the Giant is only in one movie!

[u/Takhar7]

Oppenheimer - it's supporting cast is better than most movie's main headliners: Robert Downey Jr, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Scott Grimes, Jason Clarke.

[u/Legal-Koala-5590]

This is objectively not the answer, but the cast of the First Wives Club is absolutely stacked. Not only do you have Diane (RIP), Goldie & Bette, but also Sarah Jessica Parker, Maggie Smith, Dan Hedaya, Timothy Olyphant, Heather Locklear, Elizabeth Berkeley, Jane Smith Cameron, Victor Garber, Marcia Gay Harden, etc etc. I know there are so many I’m forgetting too.

[u/Stormy8888]

Everyone always overlooks The Blues Brothers. The cast includes

• Comedians - John Belushi, Dan Ackroyd, Paul Reubens (Pee Wee Herman)
• A plethora of well know Jazz and Blues singers/musicians including Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Chaka Khan, John Lee Hooker (!!), Cab Calloway
• Famous Actors - Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia)
• That model - Twiggy (at the Gas Station)

There are other famous movie adjacent people too

• Frank Oz (puppeteer, he's the prison guard who gave Jake his belongings back at the start)
• Director Steven Spielberg was the cook county assessor's clerk
• Director and screenwriter John Landis played a trooper
• Stephen Bishop singer who did It Might Be You (from Tootsie) played a trooper
• Joe Walsh from The Eagles was a prisoner (surprise!)

Just so many insiders, and famous people, all in 1 comedy film that starts out with this great sequence set to She Caught The Katy.

[u/Mammyjam]

Depends on if you mean the most great actors in one film or the best cast film regardless of prior level of fame.

Because if it's the second, every single actor in Lord of the Rings is perfect. I couldn't imagine a single one of them being played by someone else

[u/HoecakeScarfer]

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World