# Movies with the most future stars

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-the-most-future-stars/362455>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 28, 2006, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-the-most-future-stars/362455 "2006-06-28T05:22:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![pythonzzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9e8a1a/32.png) [@pythonzzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pythonzzz)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2013, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-the-most-future-stars/362455/41 "2013-09-23T07:25:14Z")

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> [@lars](#):
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> Buckaroo Banzai was 1984. Back in 1975, Lloyd and Schiavelli appeared with Danny DeVito, Brad Dourif, Anjelica Huston, and Louise Fletcher in _One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest_.

Also character actors such as Scatman Crothers, Michael Berryman, and Will Sampson

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**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2013, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-the-most-future-stars/362455/42 "2013-09-23T07:58:36Z")

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Memphis Belle but a number of these guys were already known:

Matthew Modine  
Tate Donovan  
D. B. Sweeney  
Billy Zane  
Eric Stoltz  
Reed Diamond  
Sean Astin  
Courtney Gains  
Neil Giuntoli  
Harry Connick

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**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2013, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-the-most-future-stars/362455/43 "2013-09-23T11:37:46Z")

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**MASH**  
Donald Sutherland  
Eliott Gould  
Sally Kellerman  
Robert Duval  
Rene Auberjonois  
Bud Cort  
Tom Skerritt  
Fred Williamson  
Michael Murphy  
Gary Burghoff  
Ted Knight  
John Schuck

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**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2013, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-the-most-future-stars/362455/44 "2013-09-23T13:24:22Z")

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I retrospect, Demolition Man has a pretty stellar cast.

In addition to Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes and Nigel Hawthorne, who were already famous at the time, it also has a pre-fame Sandra Bullock, Benjamin Bratt and Dennis Leary, along with Jack Black and Jesse Ventura in bit parts.

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**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2013, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-the-most-future-stars/362455/45 "2013-09-23T13:39:48Z")

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**Levi316** - Welcome to the Dope.

Be aware that you have resurrected a 7 year old thread, and also mis-read the OP who was asking for movies, not TV shows.

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