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Non-mainstream films starring famous actors

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Removed User 12 Aug 2008


Examples I can think of are....

'The Shootist" - John Wayne

'Lil Hoss and Big Halsy' (or summat like that) - Paul Newman

'Honkytonk man' - Clint Eastwood


All very watchable films but can't think that they were ever really 'mainstream'
 Al Evans 12 Aug 2008
In reply to Removed User: Lair of the White Worm - Hugh Grant.
It also features Thors Cave and Beeston Tor.
 Peter Walker 12 Aug 2008
In reply to Al Evans:
> (In reply to Bobt) Lair of the White Worm - Hugh Grant.
> It also features Thors Cave and Beeston Tor.

He wasn't particularly famous when that was made...88 or 89, I think.

Four Weddings Etc sent him ballistic about five years later.
 jimtitt 12 Aug 2008
In reply to Removed User:

Little Fauss and Big Halsy.

I´d have though it was reasonably mainstream, just an average rubbish plot and soon forgotten. Nominated for a Golden Globe and made it on general release to Salisbury Odeon in ´71 or so.
 Marc C 12 Aug 2008
In reply to Al Evans:
> It also features Thors Cave and Beeston Tor>

Two of my favourite Norwegian actors

Al Pacino in 'Looking for Richard'?

OP Anonymous 12 Aug 2008
In reply to Removed User:

Osmosis Jones (animation) with William Shatner as the body's "mayor"
 Tom Last 12 Aug 2008
In reply to Al Evans:
> (In reply to Bobt) Lair of the White Worm - Hugh Grant.
> It also features Thors Cave and Beeston Tor.



Was just about to post that. What a weird film.
 Al Evans 12 Aug 2008
In reply to Peter Walker:
> (In reply to Al Evans)
> [...]
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> He wasn't particularly famous when that was made...88 or 89, I think.

Sorry, I thought that was the point of the thread
 Blue Straggler 12 Aug 2008
In reply to Removed User:

Well there's hundreds.

Brokeback Mountain (Ledger, Gyllenhaal, Williams)
The Road to Perdition (Hanks, Newman, Law)
Greg Araki's "Nowhere" (lots of people, admittedly before they were famous)
Until the End of the World (William Hurt, Sam Neill, Jeanne Moreau, Max von Sydow)
Pulp Fiction is not really a mainstream film either...
 Blue Straggler 12 Aug 2008
In reply to Blue Straggler:
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> Pulp Fiction is not really a mainstream film either...

In fact one could argue that though "major", none of the output of Tarantino, Rodriguez (apart from Spy Kids franchise) or Oliver Stone, is "mainstream", yet they attract big stars.

Then there's Angelina Jolie in A Mighty Heart

Loads of big stars attach themselves to non-mainstream projects.
Streep and Witherspoon in Rendition.

blah blah

 Ridge 12 Aug 2008
In reply to Blue Straggler:
> (In reply to Bobt)
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> Well there's hundreds.
>
> Brokeback Mountain (Ledger, Gyllenhaal, Bobt)
johnSD 12 Aug 2008
In reply to Removed User:

Bill Murray has done his fair share of less mainstream US films in recent years: The Darjeeling Limited, Broken Flowers, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Lost in Translation, The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore and possibly more
 Blue Straggler 12 Aug 2008
In reply to johnSD:
> possibly more

Wild Things
Garfield
johnSD 12 Aug 2008
In reply to Blue Straggler:

Surely Holywood children's films are mainstream?...

 Peter Walker 12 Aug 2008
In reply to Al Evans: Wasn't having a go squire, but I suspected that the intention behind the thread was to suggest non-mainstream films made by already-famous actors.
 Duncan Bourne 12 Aug 2008
In reply to Removed User:
Two obvious ones spring to mind
"Legend" starring a young yet to be famous Tom Cruise
and
"Being John Malkovitch" starring an already famous John Malkovitch
 Marc C 12 Aug 2008
In reply to Duncan Bourne:
> "Being John Malkovitch" starring an already famous John Malkovitch

He's a new one on me. Certainly not as famous as John Malkovich

 Al Evans 12 Aug 2008
In reply to Duncan Bourne: Didn't Legend also have David Bowie in it?
 leewam121 12 Aug 2008
In reply to Duncan Bourne: I bought the Legend / Williow / Ladyhawk boxsetn the other week... had a nostalgic Saturday.
Removed User 12 Aug 2008
In reply to Peter Walker:
> (In reply to Al Evans) Wasn't having a go squire, but I suspected that the intention behind the thread was to suggest non-mainstream films made by already-famous actors.

Yep!

Here's another one:

Glen Garry Glen Ross - Al Pacino
 Duncan Bourne 12 Aug 2008
In reply to Al Evans:
You're thinking of "Labyrinth". "Legend" (1985) directed by then little known Ridley Scott. Also starred Tim Curry
Removed User 12 Aug 2008
In reply to Ridge:


There were no threesomes in Brokeback Mountain......

...NOT that I EVER watched it Ya understand.
 kevin k 12 Aug 2008
In reply to Removed User: one night in paris by paris hilton (although she is not a famous actor)
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