You know how you watch the older movies and you see a whole bunch of people that back then were just starting out - I think that's kinda cool sometimes just to see how they have turned out.

What are some of your favorites?

For me I'd say...

Fast Times At Ridgemont High - Judge Reinhold, Phoebe Cates, Nic Cage (Coppolla), Jennifer Jason Leigh

Dazed & Confused - Matthew McConaughey, Ben Affleck, Milla Jovovich

Stand By Me - Keifer Sutherland, John Cusack, Jerry O'Connell

The Burning - Jason Alexander, Holly Hunter and.... wait for it.... Fisher Stevens!

Don't forget Forest Whitaker, Eric Stoltz and Anthony Edwards. Plus Philip Spector's murder victim, Lana Clarkson.

I don't know how you came to classify these two as "today's stars" as Reinhold hasn't been topped billed in anything since the 90's (Beverly Hills Cop is an Eddie Murphy movie, not a Judge Reinhold movie) and Phoebe hasn't been in a movie since 2001.

Perhaps the title of the thread should have been "Films featuring multiple future stars".

Dazed & Confused also had Renee Zellweger.

Jack Nicholson in Little Shop of Horrors

That was Renee Zellweger's more prettier, funnier twin Joey Lauren Adams.

And the answer to the OP is The Outsiders.

Zellweger was in Dazed and Confused but she had a non speaking, blink-and-you-miss-it part where she appeared in the background during a party. IIRC.

LOL...I know what you mean. Perhaps it should have been "stars" (using the term loosely)

Really more of a "wow, I didn't know s/he was in this movie" kinda sitautaion I guess

Exactly. Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, C. Thomas Howell, Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, Tom Cruise.

A young Elijah Wood in Back to the Future Part 2.

"You mean you have to use your hands? That's like a baby's toy!"

Also Jason Scott Lee. While not big today, he did do Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story and Lilo and Stitch.

A young Jake Gyllenhaal playing Billy Crystal's son in City Slickers.

School Ties - Brendan Frasier, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Chris O'Donnell, Cole Hauser, Anthony Rapp (not a big name star, but he was the lead in Rent on Broadway and in the film).

Children of the Corn III was the debut of Charlize Theron.
Children of the Corn IV starred Naomi Watts.

Flirting (1991) had Nic Kidman, Thandie Newton, and Naomi Watts

The Last Supper (1995) had Cameron Diaz, Ron Perlman, Mark Harmon, Jason Alexander, Bill Paxton, Ron Eldard, Courtney B. Vance (L&O:CI), and Nora Dunn in it, amongst others...

A lot of those names were hardly just starting out in 1995.

Oh I know, I was just playing up the title directly, I was tempted to put The Dark Knight. Slow day.

Keira Knightley in Star Wars: Episode I

Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III had Viggo Mortensen

Texas Chainsaw Massacre the Next Generation had Matthew McConaughey and Renee Zellweger.

Ocean's 11,12,13!

Donnie Darko - Seth Rogen, Ashley Tisdale (not a fan, but she does count)

Clueless - Brittany Murphy, Paul Rudd, Breckin Meyer, Jeremy Sisto

The Graduate - Richard Dreyfus, Norman Fell (not sure if he was famous in 1967, but I know that it was a decade before Three's Company), Mike Farrell

Ummm...Sean Penn, anyone?

Michael Cera as the little boy in Frequency

Sean Penn was meant to be the "star" tho.

Same reason I didn't list Jake Gyllenhaal for Donnie Darko, but did list Rogen and Tisdale. Jake was the star of that movie, even tho it's true he went on to become a much bigger star, people who rent the movie and see him on the cover of the DVD aren't going to go "wow, I didn't know Jake Gyllenhaal was in this, look how young he is", but they are likely to do that for Seth Rogen.

Tobey Maguire as the hitchhiker in 'Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas' - he really hadn't been in anything up til then

Jennifer Aniston in 'Leprechaun'