Alien

(insert Tarantino film here)

The obvious and already stated: Crash, Sin City, etc...

Interview with the Vampire
Empire Records
Quick and the Dead
and ... One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

if you count the cameos that appear as well....The Player would win hands down in terms of sheer star power

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Sean Penn
Nicolas Cage
Eric Stoltz
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Judge Reinhold
Phoebe Cates
Forest Whitaker
Anthony Edwards

Don't like to disagree with ya here but NO movie had the star power as It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (which someone already mentioned). Check HERE for the full cast list.

Big Lebowski - Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Saddam Hussein, Tara Reid

Oh, I almost forgot Short Cuts:

Andie MacDowell
Bruce Davison
Jack Lemmon
Julianne Moore
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Chris Penn
Fred Ward
Robert Downey Jr.
Madeleine Stowe
Tim Robbins
Lily Tomlin
Tom Waits
Francis McDormand
Peter Gallagher
Lyle Lovett
Huey Lewis

..among others.

-JP

SNEAKERS

Robert Redford
Sidney Poitier
Dan Aykroyd
River Phoenix
Mary McDonnell
Ben Kingsley
James Earl Jones
David Strathairn

Just watched True Romance again last night...totally forgot about that one in my first post. What a great cast (someone already listed the actors). Jack Black also had a bit part that was cut out (but remains on the DVD).

= J

I saw another great Altman ensemble last night..

A Prairie Home Companion:
Woody Harrelson
Tommy Lee Jones
Kevin Kline
Lindsay Lohan
Virginia Madsen
John C. Reilly
Maya Rudolph
Meryl Streep
Lily Tomlin

-JP

Nine Lives

Kathy Baker
Amy Brenneman
Glenn Close
Stephen Dillane
Dakota Fanning
William Fichtner
Lisa Gay Hamilton
Holly Hunter
Jason Isaacs
Joe Mantegna
Ian McShane
Mary Kay Place
Sydney Tamiia Poitier
Aidan Quinn
Miguel Sandoval
Amanda Seyfried
Sissy Spacek
Robin Wright Penn

Runaway Jury

John Cusack
Gene Hackman
Dustin Hoffman
Rachel Weisz
Bruce Davison
Bruce McGill
Jeremy Piven
Nick Searcy
Leland Orser
Jennifer Beals
Bill Nunn
Nora Dunn
Dylan McDermott
Luis Guzman
Orlando Jones

JFK

Kevin Costner
Tommy Lee Jones
Kevin Bacon
Laurie Metcalf
Gary Oldman
Michael Rooker
Jay O. Sanders
Sissy Spacek
Jack Lemmon
Joe Pesci
Edward Asner
Brian Doyle-Murray
Walter Matthau
John Candy
Donald Sutherland
Ray LePere
Pruitt Taylor Vince
Vincent D'Onofrio
Wayne Knight

I was thinking JFK too. The Village had a great cast also.

Yeah JFK was the first film that came to mind.

so i'm reading through this thread and thinking, "no one's said short cuts yet, no one's said short cuts?" and i'm getting all ready to post it and BAM! there is it.

anyway, i would also like to add, Bob Roberts (1992)...

Tim Robbins
Giancarlo Esposito
Alan Rickman
Ray Wise
Brian Murray
Gore Vidal
David Strathairn
James Spader
Pamela Reed
Helen Hunt
Peter Gallagher
Susan Sarandon
Fred Ward
Fisher Stevens
John Cusack
Bob Balaban
Jeremy Piven
and Jack Black...

Those are the same three movies I was going to mention. GlenGary on top, of course.

Tombstone

Kurt Russell
Val Kilmer
Sam Elliott
Bill Paxton
Powers Boothe
Michael Biehn
Charlton Heston
Jason Priestley
Jon Tenney
Stephen Lang
Thomas Haden Church
Dana Delany
Michael Rooker
Billy Bob Thornton
Paul Ben-Victor
Robert John Burke
Billy Zane
Wyatt Earp (as Billy Claiborne)
John Corbett
Terry O'Quinn
Robert Mitchum (voice of the Narrator)

In Good Company

Dennis Quaid
Topher Grace
Scarlett Johansson
Marg Helgenberger
David Paymer
Clark Gregg
Philip Baker Hall
Selma Blair
Malcolm McDowell (uncredited)

11:14

Henry Thomas
Barbara Hershey
Clark Gregg
Hilary Swank
Shawn Hatosy
Colin Hanks
Ben Foster
Patrick Swayze
Rachael Leigh Cook

The Negotiator

Samuel L. Jackson
Kevin Spacey
David Morse
Ron Rifkin
John Spencer
J.T. Walsh
Paul Giamatti

A Few Good Men

Tom Cruise
Jack Nicholson
Demi Moore
Kevin Bacon
Kiefer Sutherland
Kevin Pollak
J.T. Walsh
Christopher Guest
Matt Craven
Xander Berkeley
Noah Wyle
Cuba Gooding Jr.

Hmmm, I don’t think anyone mentioned what to me are the most obvious ensemble cast lists, namely The Godfather and The Godfather II.

Lest we “old-timers” get left out of this thread, here are some star-power assemblages from some classic films. I’ve included most names recognizable to American audiences.

Murder on the Orient Express (1974)

Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Martin Balsam, Ingrid Bergman, Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Sean Connery, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller, Anthony Perkins, Vanessa Redgrave, Rachel Roberts, Richard Widmark, Michael York

How the West Was Won (1962)

Carroll Baker, Lee J. Cobb, Henry Fonda, Carolyn Jones, Karl Malden, Gregory Peck, George Peppard, Robert Preston, Debbie Reynolds, James Stewart, Eli Wallach, John Wayne, Richard Widmark, Walter Brennan, Andy Devine, Raymond Massey, Agnes Moorehead, Harry Morgan, Thelma Ritter, Mickey Shaughnessy, Russ Tamblyn, Spencer Tracy, Harry Dean Stanton, Lee Van Cleef

The Longest Day (1962)

Eddie Albert, Paul Anka, Richard Beymer, Richard Burton, Red Buttons, Sean Connery, Fabian, Mel Ferrer, Henry Fonda, Steve Forrest, Jeffrey Hunter, Curt Jurgens, Peter Lawford, Roddy McDowall, Sal Mineo, Robert Mitchum, Kenneth More, Edmond O'Brien, Robert Ryan, Tommy Sands, George Segal, Rod Steiger, Robert Wagner, Stuart Whitman, John Wayne, Richard Dawson

The disaster flix of the 70’s (Airport, Towering Inferno, Earthquake et. al) also sported some impressive cast lists.

In addition, there were quite a few propaganda films made during WWII that contained dozens of stars in mostly cameo appearances (Thank Your Lucky Stars, Hollywood Victory Caravan, Stage Door Canteen, Hollywood Canteen).

And let’s not forget those MGM musicals such as Ziegfeld Follies and Till the Clouds Roll By which featured dozens of the studio’s artists in loosely-connected specialty numbers.

Most of the ones i thought of have been mentioned but one i really like is Beautiful Girls:

Timothy Hutton
Natalie Portman(a very young Nat)
Matt Dillon
Mira Sorvino
Uma Thurman
Annabeth Gish
Lauren Holly
Michael Rapaport
Martha Plimpton

even Rosie O'Donnell & David Arquette arent bad in it

Here's another vote for Heat. What an amazing cast...

Robert DeNiro
Al Pacino
Natalie Portman
Ashley Judd
Val Kilmer
Dennis Haysbert
Tom Sizemore
Jon Voight
William Fichtner
Jeremy Piven
Danny Trejo

= J

In the Bedroom, Three Kings, and to a lesser extent of ensembles (The Score, though a so-so movie).


Good call on U-Turn, was thinking of that the other night.

Saving Private Ryan
Apocolypse Now

The first thing that came to mind was Glenagrry Glen Ross.
Also The Usual Suspects

Exactly what I had in mind when I read the thread title. Not huge Hollywood power players, my favorite ensemble nonetheless.

Platoon

The Breakfast Club

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

The Right Stuff

Nashville (or pretty much any Altman film)

Whats the name of the movie?