# 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:** 22
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/421 "2005-10-16T02:36:55Z")
Valeria Golino from Clean Slate? ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/422 "2005-10-16T02:37:59Z")
And Jon Cryer from Pretty in Pink, right? ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/423 "2005-10-16T02:38:02Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > Valeria Golino from Clean Slate? 😃 I think you’re on a roll ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/424 "2005-10-16T02:39:09Z")
😃 Bridges, Galino, and Cryer were all in _Hot Shots!_ ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/425 "2005-10-16T02:40:33Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > 😃 > > Bridges, Galino, and Cryer were all in _Hot Shots!_ you are most definitely on a roll, and maybe a croissant, too. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/426 "2005-10-16T03:01:27Z")
A bit stuck right now though… I really want to put Hoffman and Pacino together in _Dick Tracy_, but Balaban and Hoffman were also together in _Midnight Cowboy_, which would be a nice touch. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/427 "2005-10-16T03:06:45Z")
I think I’m getting somewhere… are you looking for William Sasso from _Happy Gilmore_? ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/428 "2005-10-16T03:10:40Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > I think I’m getting somewhere… are you looking for William Sasso from _Happy Gilmore_? why yes, yes I am ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/429 "2005-10-16T03:12:04Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > A bit stuck right now though… > > I really want to put Hoffman and Pacino together in _Dick Tracy_, but Balaban and Hoffman were also together in _Midnight Cowboy_, which would be a nice touch. I am not going to comment on that guess other than to say the key may well be in the 9th level two actor who has yet to be identified ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/430 "2005-10-16T03:13:50Z")
And Glenne Headly from _Doctor Detroit_, right? ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/431 "2005-10-16T03:15:07Z")
So we get closer to the end: Headly, Hoffman and Pacino were all in **Dick Tracy**. Posey, Balaban and Sasso were all in **Best in Show**. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/432 "2005-10-16T03:18:30Z")
Which means we need actors from: **Best in Show** **Dick Tracy** **Best in Show** I’ve got it… ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/433 "2005-10-16T03:22:17Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > Which means we need actors from: > > **Best in Show** > **Dick Tracy** > **Best in Show** > > I’ve got it… I think you mean **Hot Shots Dick Tracy Best in Show** ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/434 "2005-10-16T03:24:45Z")
**Hot Shots - Cary Elwes Dick Tracy - Mandy Patinkin Best in Show - Christopher Guest** INCONCEIVABLE!! ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/435 "2005-10-16T03:25:19Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > **Hot Shots - Cary Elwes > Dick Tracy - Mandy Patinkin > Best in Show - Christopher Guest** > > INCONCEIVABLE!! yeah - I knew this was an easy one nnnnnext? ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/436 "2005-10-16T03:26:30Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > **Hot Shots - Cary Elwes > Dick Tracy - Mandy Patinkin > Best in Show - Christopher Guest** > > INCONCEIVABLE!! (or better) Why you keep saying that? I do not think that word means what you think it means? ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/437 "2005-10-16T03:28:05Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > yeah - I knew this was an easy one > > nnnnnext? It wasn’t that easy. Those movies with lots and lots of characters are tough, especially when you have to really dig through them. I don’t know why I was having so much trouble with _Doctor Detroit_. I saw (the lovely) Ms. Headly at once, and for some reason thereafter had a total mental block on her. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/438 "2005-10-16T03:28:28Z")
[quote=ShibbOleth] I really want to put Hoffman and Pacino together in Dick Tracy, but Balaban and Hoffman were also together in Midnight Cowboy, which would be a nice touch. [quote] but where would I have gone with Jon Voight - he doesn’t match my others ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/439 "2005-10-16T03:32:22Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > (or better) > > Why you keep saying that? I do not think that word means what you think it means? As you wish. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/440 "2005-10-16T03:34:14Z")
[QUOTE=anyrose] [quote=ShibbOleth] I really want to put Hoffman and Pacino together in Dick Tracy, but Balaban and Hoffman were also together in Midnight Cowboy, which would be a nice touch. > [@](#): > > but where would I have gone with Jon Voight - he doesn’t match my others At that point, of course, I didn’t know where the thing was going to end. This Mr. Balaban is like a lesser known Kevin Bacon. Tremendously versatile. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951.md?page=21) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951.md?page=23)