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14 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

How the West Was Won:

John Wayne

Henry Fonda

Karl Malden

Gregory Peck

Debbie Reynolds

James Stewart

Robert Preston 

Lee J. Cobb 

Carolyn Jones 

 

Spencer Tracy's narration was outstanding.

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Lots of great movies and casts listed in the thread. However some of those suggested are focused more on the star power, or acknowledged great actors, or sheer quantity of actors. 

Am watching the 2009 Star Trek remake. Their casting choices were phenomenal. Many of the actors were known but not yet huge stars. And the fit with the previous Star Trek characters was outstanding. They didn’t come across as Rich Little impersonators, but they captured the essence of the previous characters. Whoever did casting for that movie did an incredible job. 

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2 hours ago, Dbeasy said:

Lots of great movies and casts listed in the thread. However some of those suggested are focused more on the star power, or acknowledged great actors, or sheer quantity of actors. 

Am watching the 2009 Star Trek remake. Their casting choices were phenomenal. Many of the actors were known but not yet huge stars. And the fit with the previous Star Trek characters was outstanding. They didn’t come across as Rich Little impersonators, but they captured the essence of the previous characters. Whoever did casting for that movie did an incredible job. 

Nerd.

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On 10/24/2023 at 10:13 PM, YGIFS said:

Heat's was great, fair point.  But it was a narrow cast aside from the crew and Pacino.  Anybody else in it was easily replaceable.  Henry Rollins was cool but not exactly critical to the casting.  But good nomination.

 

Xander Berkeley too

 

On 10/25/2023 at 6:53 PM, MagicSoccerSpray said:

LA Confidential

Unforgiven

Hunt for Red October

Heat

Gattaca

Predator (small cast)

Sicario

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Tropic Thunder

Lone Star

 

Forgot Copland. Underappreciated film with a great cast.

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Michael Clayton.

Not the longest list of stars, or the biggest stars, but a very well-thought-out application of their talents.

And none of them really typecast.

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On 11/20/2025 at 3:46 PM, Dbeasy said:

Lots of great movies and casts listed in the thread. However some of those suggested are focused more on the star power, or acknowledged great actors, or sheer quantity of actors. 

Am watching the 2009 Star Trek remake. Their casting choices were phenomenal. Many of the actors were known but not yet huge stars. And the fit with the previous Star Trek characters was outstanding. They didn’t come across as Rich Little impersonators, but they captured the essence of the previous characters. Whoever did casting for that movie did an incredible job. 

That might have been the greatest casting job of all time.

They were all perfect for the parts.

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I didn't love the movie, but Mars Attacks has to be in the conversation:

Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Annette Bening, Pierce Brosnan, Danny DeVito, Martin Short, Sarah Jessica Parker, Michael J. Fox, Rod Steiger, Tom Jones, Lukas Haas, Natalie Portman, Jim Brown, Lisa Marie, Sylvia Sidney, Jack Black, Pam Grier, Paul Winfield, Christina Applegate, 

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33 minutes ago, TexasHooch said:

I didn't love the movie, but Mars Attacks has to be in the conversation:

Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Annette Bening, Pierce Brosnan, Danny DeVito, Martin Short, Sarah Jessica Parker, Michael J. Fox, Rod Steiger, Tom Jones, Lukas Haas, Natalie Portman, Jim Brown, Lisa Marie, Sylvia Sidney, Jack Black, Pam Grier, Paul Winfield, Christina Applegate, 

But is it? That was a meh movie rated 53% on rotten tomatoes. Just throwing a whole bunch of well known actors into a movie isn’t great casting imo. 

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The prompt is best cast, not most well casted (that may not be a word, but work with me).  If it were the latter, I may go with The Big Chill or Dead Poets Society, in which both had mostly relative unknowns.  If we're just talking about most talented cast in a single movie, Mars Attacks is just a notch below the big super hero movies.

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