Movies with a terrific ensemble cast:

[XemaSab]

I nominate Sneakers, made in 1992.

Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier, Dan Aykroyd, River Phoenix, Mary McDonell, Ben Kingsley, James Earl Jones, and David Straitharn (who played Murrow in Good Night and Good Luck).

You can't fight that. :D

[GOPisEvil]

1. Good choice. I nominate Glengarry Glen Ross.

Al Pacino
Jack Lemmon
Ed Harris
Alec Baldwin
Kevin Spacey
Alan Arkin
Jonathan Pryce

[charlie and algernon]

2. Bobby

Sharon Stone
Martin Sheen
William H. Macy
Anthony Hopkins
Elijah Woods
Emilio Estevez
Harry Belefonte
Heather Graham
Helen Hunt
Laurance Fishburne
Joshua Jackson
Lindsey Lohan
Nick Cannon

[mitchum]

3. Boogie Nights

[LostinVA]

4. Gosford Park

The cast includes Sir Michael Gambon, Dame Maggie Smith, Dame Helen Mirren, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jeremy Northam, Bob Balaban, Ryan Phillippe, Stephen Fry, Kelly Macdonald, Clive Owen, Dame Eileen Atkins, Emily Watson, Camilla Rutherford, Tom Hollander, Sir Alan Bates, Sir Derek Jacobi, and Richard E. Grant.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

27. Ever seen Nashville?

Even bigger cast there -- 24, I believe.

[hatredisnotavalue]

42. The Departed

[cemaphonic]

43. most movies by Altman, really.

[XemaSab]

28. Where are Hugh Laurie and Alan Rickman?

x(

[datasuspect]

5. schindler's fist

starring:

tascha de goo
lance surewood
antonia fuxton
ben dover

[NanceGreggs]

6. "The Big Chill"

Glenn Close
Kevin Kline
Tom Berenger
Mary Kay Place
Jobeth Williams
Jeff Goldblum
William Hurt

[JeffR]

16. And Meg Tilly...

... as The Beaver.
:hide:

[NanceGreggs]

20. Deliberately left her out ...

... 'cause I can't stand Meg Tilley - regardless of the fact that she did play The Beaver to a fare-thee-well.

[BrklynLiberal]

57. That is what came to mind for me as well...

[NMDemDist2]

61. that was my first thought too n/t

[Bertha Venation]

7. Silverado

Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn, Danny Glover, Kevin Costner, Brian Dennehey, John Cleese, Lynn Whitfield, Rosanna Arquette, Jeff Fahey, Jeff Goldblum, and one of my faves, Linda Hunt.

[Archae]

8. Caddyshack.

'Nuff said.

[DS1]

9. Mary McDonnell sucks

[jobycom]

22. How would you know?

[flvegan]

10. Clue

Eileen Brennan .... Mrs. Peacock
Tim Curry .... Wadsworth
Madeline Kahn .... Mrs. White
Christopher Lloyd .... Professor Plum
Michael McKean .... Mr. Green
Martin Mull .... Colonel Mustard
Lesley Ann Warren .... Miss Scarlet
Colleen Camp .... Yvette
Lee Ving .... Mr. Boddy
Bill Henderson .... The Cop
Jane Wiedlin .... The Singing Telegram Girl

[redqueen]

12. Dangit

I must have been looking it up when you posted...

[XemaSab]

31. Life could be a dream, sweetheart...

:D

[redqueen]

11. Clue

Eileen Brennan
Tim Curry
Madeline Kahn
Christopher Lloyd
Michael McKean
Martin Mull
Lesley Ann Warren
Colleen Camp
Lee Ving

[nytemare]

54. I love that movie.

Tim Curry was hilarious.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

13. The Usual Suspects

[redqueen]

14. History of the World, Part I

Mel Brooks ... Moses / Comicus / Torquemada / Jacques / King Louis XVI
Dom DeLuise ... Emperor Nero
Madeline Kahn ... Empress Nympho
Harvey Korman ... Count de Monet
Cloris Leachman ... Madame Defarge
Ron Carey ... Swiftus
Gregory Hines ... Josephus
Pamela Stephenson ... Mademoiselle Rimbaud
Shecky Greene ... Marcus Vindictus
Sid Caesar ... Chief Caveman

I'm not editing it this time so hopefully no one else will post this before me this time.

[sakabatou]

60. "I have 15...!" *crash*

"Ten! Ten commandments!"

[JeffR]

15. Diner

Breaking Away

The Dirty Dozen

The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming

[mitchum]

40. Great call on The Dirty Dozen...

however, I have never understood how Trini Lopez got cast with all of those quintessential tough guys. Trini Lopez?

[JeffR]

47. The dirtiest of the Dirty Dozen.

He wasn't kidding with his version of "If I Had a Hammer". Fortunately, nobody ever gave him a hammer.

[PeaceNikki]

17. True Romance

Christian Slater
Patricia Arquette
Dennis Hopper
Val Kilmer
Gary Oldman
Brad Pitt
Christopher Walken
Bronson Pinchot
Samuel L. Jackson
Michael Rapaport
James Gandolfini
Chris Penn
Tom Sizemore

[yellowdogintexas]

18. "Murder By Death"

Eileen Brennan ... Tess Skeffington
Truman Capote ... Lionel Twain
James Coco ... Milo Perrier

Peter Falk ... Sam Diamond

Alec Guinness ... Bensonmum

Elsa Lanchester ... Jessica Marbles

David Niven ... Dick Charleston

Peter Sellers ... Sidney Wang

Maggie Smith ... Dora Charleston
Nancy Walker ... Maid
Estelle Winwood ... Nurse

James Cromwell ... Marcel

Richard Narita ... Willie Wang

[flvegan]

23. Yes! One of my favorite movies!

[XemaSab]

32. You like Peter Sellers?

Dr. Strangelove has him AND James Earl Jones.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

19. Evil Under The Sun

Peter Ustinov ... Hercule Poirot
Jane Birkin ... Christine Redfern
Colin Blakely ... Sir Horace Blatt
Nicholas Clay ... Patrick Redfern
James Mason ... Odell Gardener
Roddy McDowall ... Rex Brewster
Sylvia Miles ... Myra Gardener
Denis Quilley ... Captain Kenneth Marshall
Diana Rigg ... Arlena Stuart Marshall
Maggie Smith ... Daphne Castle

[jobycom]

21. Valkyre has an interesting cast. Plus, Harry Potter, and Love Actually.

Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson, Eddie Izzard, Terrence Stamp, Tom Cruise.

Love Actually barely counts, since it's so episodic. Harry Potter has pulled together some impressive actors.

[NanceGreggs]

24. "The Right Stuff"

Sam Shepard
Scott Glenn
Ed Harris
Dennis Quaid
Fred Ward
Barbara Hershey
Veronica Cartwright
Kim Stanley
Lance Henrikson
Levon Helm
Scott Wilson
Kathy Baker
Jeff Goldblum
Harry Shearer

... and various and sundry other people no one has ever heard of.

[blockhead]

25. The Player

Tim Robbins ... Griffin Mill
Greta Scacchi ... June Gudmundsdottir
Fred Ward ... Walter Stuckel
Whoopi Goldberg ... Detective Susan Avery
Peter Gallagher ... Larry Levy
Brion James ... Joel Levison
Cynthia Stevenson ... Bonnie Sherow
Vincent D'Onofrio ... David Kahane
Dean Stockwell ... Andy Civella
Richard E. Grant ... Tom Oakley
Sydney Pollack ... Dick Mellon
Lyle Lovett ... Detective DeLongpre
Dina Merrill ... Celia
Angela Hall ... Jan
Leah Ayres ... Sandy
Paul Hewitt ... Jimmy Chase
Randall Batinkoff ... Reg Goldman
Jeremy Piven ... Steve Reeves
Gina Gershon ... Whitney Gersh
Frank Barhydt ... Frank Murphy
Mike E. Kaplan ... Marty Grossman
Kevin Scannell ... Gar Girard
Margery Bond ... Witness
Susan Emshwiller ... Detective Broom
Brian Brophy ... Phil / Blackmailer (voice)
Michael Tolkin ... Eric Schecter
Stephen Tolkin ... Carl Schecter
Natalie Strong ... Natalie
Peter Koch ... Walter (as Pete Koch)
Pamela Bowen ... Trixie
Jeff Celentano ... Rocco (as Jeff Weston)
Steve Allen ... Himself
Richard Anderson ... Himself
Rene Auberjonois ... Himself
Harry Belafonte ... Himself
Shari Belafonte ... Herself
Karen Black ... Herself
Michael Bowen ... Himself
Gary Busey ... Himself
Robert Carradine ... Himself
Charles Champlin ... Himself
Cher ... Herself
James Coburn ... Himself
Cathy Lee Crosby ... Herself
John Cusack ... Himself
Brad Davis ... Himself
Paul Dooley ... Himself
Thereza Ellis ... Herself
Peter Falk ... Himself
Felicia Farr ... Herself
Katarzyna Figura ... Herself (as Kasia Figura)
Louise Fletcher ... Herself
Dennis Franz ... Himself
Teri Garr ... Herself
Leeza Gibbons ... Herself
Scott Glenn ... Himself
Jeff Goldblum ... Himself
Elliott Gould ... Himself
Joel Grey ... Himself
David Alan Grier ... Himself
Buck Henry ... Himself
Anjelica Huston ... Herself (as Angelica Huston)
Kathy Ireland ... Herself
Steve James ... Himself
Maxine John-James ... Herself
Sally Kellerman ... Herself
Sally Kirkland ... Herself
Jack Lemmon ... Himself
Marlee Matlin ... Herself
Andie MacDowell ... Herself
Malcolm McDowell ... Himself
Jayne Meadows ... Herself
Martin Mull ... Himself
Jennifer Nash ... Herself
Nick Nolte ... Himself
Alexandra Powers ... Herself
Bert Remsen ... Himself
Guy Remsen ... Himself
Patricia Resnick ... Herself
Burt Reynolds ... Himself
Jack Riley ... Himself
Mimi Rogers ... Herself
Annie Ross ... Herself
Alan Rudolph ... Himself
Jill St. John ... Herself
Susan Sarandon ... Herself
Adam Simon ... Himself
Rod Steiger ... Himself
Joan Tewkesbury ... Herself
Brian Tochi ... Himself
Lily Tomlin ... Herself
Robert Wagner ... Himself
Ray Walston ... Himself
Bruce Willis ... Himself
Marvin Young ... Himself
Julia Roberts ... Herself
Althea Gibson ... Herself (uncredited)
Ted Hartley ... Party guest (uncredited)
Jack Jason ... Himself (uncredited)
James McLindon ... Jim the writer (uncredited)
Derek Raser ... Studio Mail driver (uncredited)
Scott Shaw ... Himself (uncredited)
Patrick Swayze ... Himself (uncredited) driver

[Starbucks Anarchist]

26. Glengarry Glen Ross.

Al Pacino, Ed Harris, Kevin Spacey, Alan Arkin, Jack Lemmon and Alec Baldwin.

[Paladin]

50. Amen To That

Best, most powerful, and overwhelmingly talented group of modern American actors---ever.

[AwakeAtLast]

29. The Breakfast Club

I could still watch that movie today.

I am a child of the '80s fer sure!

[PBS Poll-435]

30. Best in Show

Waiting for Guffman, A Mighty Wind, For Your Consideration.

[Parrcrow]

33. Its a Mad Mad Mad Mad World

with everybody

Murder on the Orient Express

everybody else.

[yellowdogintexas]

44. This may be the ultimate ensemble cast ever assembled.

Which in retrospect, may have been the entire purpose of the film, considering how old some of the actors were. Tracy, Durante, Three Stooges, etc

[LibDemAlways]

49. Mad Mad World set the standard. Just about every

comedian from the era puts in an appearance and Jonathan Winters is in especially rare form. Excellent choice.

[LibDemAlways]

51. Dupe

[alphafemale]

53. I loved that movie. I am going to Netflix right now.

I am going to make my "grown" children pee their pants over the holiday break. :bounce: :evilgrin:

[Danger Mouse]

34. Alien

Harry Dean Stanton, Yaphet Kotto, Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerrit, Ian Holm, John Hurt, how can you go wrong?

[XemaSab]

35. Ghostbusters

Harold Ramis
Dan Aykroyd
Ernie Hudson
Bill Murray
Sigourney Weaver
Rick Moranis
Annie Potts

[nuxvomica]

36. Casablanca

Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Raines, Sidney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Conrad Veigt, S.Z. "Cuddles" Sakall.

Touch of Evil
Orson Welles, Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Akim Tamiroff, Marlene Dietrich, Joseph Calleia, Ray Collins, Joanna Moore, Mercedes McCambridge, Dennis Weaver.

[JTG of the PRB]

37. Mars Attacks!

Starring the likes of:

Jack Nicholson
Glenn Close
Annette Benning
Pierce Brosnan
Danny DeVito
Martin Short
Sarah Jessica Parker
Michael J. Fox
Rod Steiger
Tom Jones
Natalie Portman
Jack Black
Christina Applegate

Whew.

[redqueen]

38. Pulp Fiction

John Travolta ... Vincent Vega
Samuel L. Jackson ... Jules Winnfield
Tim Roth ... Pumpkin - Ringo
Amanda Plummer ... Honey Bunny - Yolanda
Eric Stoltz ... Lance
Bruce Willis ... Butch Coolidge
Ving Rhames ... Marsellus Wallace
Phil LaMarr ... Marvin
Maria de Medeiros ... Fabienne
Rosanna Arquette ... Jody
Peter Greene ... Zed
Uma Thurman ... Mia Wallace

[redqueen]

39. Natural Born Killers

Woody Harrelson ... Mickey Knox
Juliette Lewis ... Mallory Knox
Tom Sizemore ... Det. Jack Scagnetti
Rodney Dangerfield ... Ed Wilson, Mallory's Dad
Everett Quinton ... Deputy Warden Wurlitzer
Jared Harris ... London Boy
Pruitt Taylor Vince ... Deputy Warden Kavanaugh
Edie McClurg ... Mallory's Mom
Russell Means ... Old Indian
Lanny Flaherty ... Earl
O-Lan Jones ... Mabel
Robert Downey Jr. ... Wayne Gale

[CreekDog]

41. Primary Colors had cast that did particularly well together

John Travolta
Emma Thompson :loveya:
Kathy Bates
Billy Bob Thornton :rofl:
Larry Hagman
Maura Tierney

[Bucky]

45. Earthquake (1973)

When I was a kid, they made a new big disaster movie every year. The trend ended when they were reduced to casting Lorne Greene as the "big star" in a movie about killer tsunamis going about striking all the coastal cities along the Pacific Rim.

Not that I think Lorne Greene couldn't single handedly taking on both the Pacific Ocean and shifting tectonic plates.

[Flaxbee]

46. Wag the Dog

Robert DeNiro
Anne Heche
Dustin Hoffman
Woody Harrelson
Denis Leary
Willie Nelson
William H. Macy


Not uber-fantastic, but fun.

BTW, I *LOVE* Sneakers. My husband informally consulted on the script and got a nod via one of the character's name....

[jpgray]

48. Lion In Winter

[grannylib]

59. I second that...Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Hopkins, Peter O'Toole,

Timothy Dalton...and some of the best lines ever.

[LibDemAlways]

52. Godfather and Godfather II

Brando, Pacino, DeNiro, Robert Duvall, James Caan, Diane Keaton, the late great John Cazale and too many fine character actors to mention. Top notch casts in both.

[darkstar]

55. I Heart Huckabees

Hmm...that's it for now I guess

[Lindsey]

56. Pulp Fiction also had Harvey Keitel and Christopher Walken

God I LOVE that movie.....

[dysfunctional press]

58. kelly's heroes.

[bluesbassman]

62. 12 Angry Men

Hard to beat this ensemble. There was really nothing more to the movie than these twelve fine actors.

Henry Fonda
Lee J. Cobb
E. G. Marshall
Martin Balsam
John Fiedler
Jack Klugman
Edward Binns
Jack Warden
Joseph Sweeney
Ed Begley
George Voskovec
Robert Webber