# 27 actors, 1 movie (a really hard game) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 12, 2005, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951 "2005-10-12T20:11:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 20
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2005, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/381 "2005-10-15T00:58:15Z")
You got all the movies: Everyone says I Love You Drew Barrymore Julia Roberts Edward Norton and ? Wide Awake Denis Leary Robert Loggia Rosie O’Donnell and ? Clean and Sober Michael Keaton Morgan Freeman Kathy Baker and ? Ghostbusters II Rick Moranis Annie Potts Ernie Hudson and ? Ferris Bueller Mia Sara Jennifer Grey Jeffrey Jones and ? Prince of Tides Barbra Streisand George Carlin Blythe Danner and Nick Nolte Pope of Greenwich Village Mickey Rourke Eric Roberts Daryl Hannah and ? Very Brady Sequel Shelley Long Gary Cole Christine Taylor and Tim Matheson Quick Change Stanley Tucci Tony Shalhoub Phil Hartman and Geena Davis And M. Emmet Walsh fits in there somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2005, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/382 "2005-10-15T01:10:10Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > You got all the movies: > > Everyone says I Love You > Drew Barrymore > Julia Roberts > Edward Norton > and ? > > Wide Awake > Denis Leary > Robert Loggia > Rosie O’Donnell > and ? > > Clean and Sober > Michael Keaton > Morgan Freeman > Kathy Baker > and ? > > Ghostbusters II > Rick Moranis > Annie Potts > Ernie Hudson > and ? > > Ferris Bueller > Mia Sara > Jennifer Grey > Jeffrey Jones > and ? > > Prince of Tides > Barbra Streisand > George Carlin > Blythe Danner > and Nick Nolte > > Pope of Greenwich Village > Mickey Rourke > Eric Roberts > Daryl Hannah > and ? > > Very Brady Sequel > Shelley Long > Gary Cole > Christine Taylor > and Tim Matheson > > Quick Change > Stanley Tucci > Tony Shalhoub > Phil Hartman > and Geena Davis > > And M. Emmet Walsh fits in there somewhere. Emmet Walsh from "Clean and Sober"Geena Davis from “Quick Change” Tim Matheson from “A Very Brady Sequel” = “Fletch”–Richard Libertini Peter MacNicol from "Ghostbusters 2"Goldie Hawn from “Everybody Says I Love You” Dana Delany from “Wide Awake” = “House Sitter”–Steve Martin I’m trying to figure out who goes with Nick Nolte, but is the movie All Of Me? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2005, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/383 "2005-10-15T01:12:20Z")
You’re correct on Steve Martin. And the other movie is Fletch. ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2005, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/384 "2005-10-15T01:24:27Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > You’re correct on Steve Martin. And the other movie is Fletch. Which leaves Chevy Chase, so the movie is probably Three AmigosBut I can’t put Nick Nolte together with anyone from Pope of Greenwich Village or FBDO! ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2005, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/385 "2005-10-15T01:27:37Z")
> [@want2know](#): > > Which leaves Chevy Chase, so the movie is probably Three AmigosBut I can’t put Nick Nolte together with anyone from Pope of Greenwich Village or FBDO! It can be done. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2005, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/386 "2005-10-15T01:37:09Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > It can be done. 🙂 Martin Short? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2005, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/387 "2005-10-15T01:48:34Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > Martin Short? Yep. So just link back through Pope and Ferris and Bob’s your uncle. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2005, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/388 "2005-10-15T01:59:28Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Yep. So just link back through Pope and Ferris and Bob’s your uncle. Missing from FB’sDO is Alan Ruck Missing from PoGV is Kenneth McMillan both of whom were in the Three Fugitves with Nick Nolte where we get Martin Short who with Chevy Chase (from Fletch) and Steve Martin were The Three Amigos! (turn and cough) ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2005, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/389 "2005-10-15T02:01:22Z")
have i mentioned i LOVE this game? I’ll work on another one for tomorrow - but if someone else has one ready to go, post away ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2005, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/390 "2005-10-15T02:05:45Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > Missing from FB’sDO is Alan Ruck > Missing from PoGV is Kenneth McMillan > both of whom were in the Three Fugitves with Nick Nolte > where we get Martin Short who with Chevy Chase (from Fletch) and Steve Martin were > > The Three Amigos! (turn and cough) Correct! Although it should be mentioned that **want2know** did the bulk of the work on this. But it’s supposed to be a cooperative game, to props all around. The hint I was going to drop was that in all of the missing elements there at the end, each movie in question was about 3 people (perfect for this game!), and that each missing actor was on of those three people. Three Amigos. Three Fugatives. Thre safe crackers. Three school skippers. Nice work on a fairly hard puzzle. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2005, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/391 "2005-10-15T02:12:56Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > have i mentioned i LOVE this game? I’m glad you do! Seeing as how it filled 8 pages in less than 24 hours, I’d call it a success. I actually just thought it up in a few minutes, although I wondered for weeks how I could turn Capricorn One into a game. I was originally thinking of some sort of scavenger hunt/six degrees combo. One in which I would occasional drop new hints. Like “An actor mentioned in today’s Globe was in a movie with an actor mentioned in a Pit thread from yesterday, with an additional hint in John Mace’s sig line. That movie is not playing on A&E this week”, or something like that. I wanted to plan it to last several weeks. If someone wants to make up a game like that, I’ll play it. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2005, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/392 "2005-10-15T02:53:02Z")
well, maybe not that convoluted, but here’s a new list for this game now I’m going to sleep - I’ll catch you all up tomorrow afternoon, so don’t rush Jane Alexander Dan Aykroyd Wilford Brimley T K Carter Alan Cumming Olivia d’Abo Rosario Dawson Johnny Depp Sally Field Julie Hagerty Robert Hayes Anne Heche Howard Hesseman James Earl Jones Bruno Kirby Andrew McCarthy Kevin Nealon Paul Newman Kevin Pollack Tara Reid Molly Ringwald Adam Sandler James Spader Robert Stack Meryl Streep Carl Weathers JoBeth Williams (see? I alphabetized them by LAST name this time :D) by the way - this will probably be an easy round ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2005, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/393 "2005-10-15T05:15:59Z")
I’m glad that somone finally included the great Kevin Pollack. Now if we could get a bit of a certain Mr. Rebhorn into the mix… Julie Hagerty Robert Hayes Robert Stack Shirley you can’t be serious? Spoken by the excellent Leslie Nielson, I’m guessing. Beddy-bye time for me too. Over the past few nights, I’ve been thinking of the Robin Williams/Hillary Swank/Al Pacino movie. It’s been keeping me up nights. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2005, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/394 "2005-10-15T05:24:57Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Tony Shalhoub > Barbra Streisand > Christine Taylor > Stanley Tucci Not to retread an old puzzle, but be honest–you looked at this last part of this and looked around for Minnie Driver and Ian Holm, right? Right? ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2005, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/395 "2005-10-15T11:38:48Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > I’m glad that somone finally included the great Kevin Pollack. Now if we could get a bit of a certain Mr. Rebhorn into the mix… > > Julie Hagerty > Robert Hayes > Robert Stack > > Shirley you can’t be serious? Spoken by the excellent Leslie Nielson, I’m guessing. > > Beddy-bye time for me too. Over the past few nights, I’ve been thinking of the Robin Williams/Hillary Swank/Al Pacino movie. It’s been keeping me up nights. right movie, wrong actor and yeah - thought Minnie was in there somewhere, but hadn’t considered Ian ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2005, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/396 "2005-10-15T16:46:15Z")
OK, Carl Weathers (STEVE HOLT!), Adam Sandler, and Kevin Nealon were in Little Nicky. Molly Ringwald, James Spader, and Andrew McCarthy were all Pretty. In Pink. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2005, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/397 "2005-10-15T16:48:37Z")
The movies so far: Pretty in Pink Little Nicky Airplane! The revised actor list: Jane Alexander Dan Aykroyd Wilford Brimley T K Carter Alan Cumming Olivia d’Abo Rosario Dawson Johnny Depp Sally Field Anne Heche Howard Hesseman James Earl Jones Bruno Kirby Paul Newman Kevin Pollack Tara Reid Meryl Streep JoBeth Williams ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2005, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/398 "2005-10-15T16:51:01Z")
Bruno Kirby, Anne Heche, and Johnny Depp were in Donnie Brasco. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2005, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/399 "2005-10-15T19:04:30Z")
HOLD IT RIGHT THERE “Little Nicky” is INCORRECT However “Pretty in Pink” & Donnie Brasco are so the revised list is Jane Alexander Dan Aykroyd Wilford Brimley T K Carter Alan Cumming Olivia d’Abo Rosario Dawson Sally Field Howard Hesseman James Earl Jones Kevin Nealon Paul Newman Kevin Pollack Tara Reid Adam Sandler Meryl Streep Carl Weathers JoBeth Williams and the movies so far are Airplane! Pretty in Pink Donnie Brasco any level two actor guesses? ---
**Author:** ![GraceTX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c4cdca/32.png) [@GraceTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GraceTX)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2005, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/400 "2005-10-15T19:41:31Z")
Alan Cumming, Rosario Dawson and Tara Reid were in _Josie & The Pussycats_. At at guess, the 4th is Rachel Leigh Cook. I think James Earl Jones, Kevin Pollak and Olivia d’Abo were all in _Clean Slatep_, although I’m kind of embarrassed to admit that one. Dana Carvey as the 4th then? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951.md?page=19) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951.md?page=21)