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Robert Redford. Sidney Poitier. David Strathairn. River Phoenix. Mary McDonnell. Timothy Busfield. Dan Ackroyd. Donal Logue. Ben Kingsley. James Earl Jones. Stephen Tobolowsky.

There may exist movies with better casts than Sneakers, but there don't exist many.

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I miss the comedic dramas with ensamble casts back in that day. Today, they're all CGI, shoot-em-up, gratuitous explosions.

Another unappreciated example, The Man with One Red Shoe. Tom Hanks, Dabney Coleman, Charles Durning, Carrie Fisher, Lori Singer, Jim Belushi, Edward Herrman, David Ogden Stiers, Tom Noonan, Irving Metzman, David Lander.

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That had always stuck in my head since seeing it. Good movie.

The cast list in True Romance always shocks people unfamiliar with it. A different generation of greats though. Val Kilmer, Dennis Hopper, Chris Walken, Brad Pitt, Gary Oldman, Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, James Gandolfini, Jack Black (deleted scene), Samuel Jackson, and more.

Two of my favorites!

There's also Glengarry Glen Ross, another of my top-all-time:

Al Pacino; Jack Lemmon; Alec Baldwin; Ed Harris; Alan Arkin; Kevin Spacey; Jonathan Pryce

Rabe is an excellent playwright -- I'll have to check this out. Movies adapted from stage plays are great places to find good dialog, in general. Other examples: A Thousand Clowns, Angels in America.

I think this might be a reply to a different comment (about Hurlyburly maybe?). The screenplay for Glengarry Glen Ross was written by David Mamet (another excellent playwright, btw), adapted from his play of the same name.

"Hurlyburly"[1]

    Sean Penn
    Kevin Spacey
    Robin Wright Penn
    Chazz Palminteri
    Garry Shandling
    Anna Paquin
    Meg Ryan

One of my favorite movies.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurlyburly_(film)

I've never heard of this movie. Why is its rating so mediocre?

It's very much like Glengarry Glen Ross.

Very limited sets, almost no action, brilliant dialog.

I love Glengarry so that's a pretty spot-on recommendation, I'll check it out

Glengarry Glen Ross: Al Pacino, Kevin Spacey, Alec Baldwin, Jack Lemmon, Alan Arkin, Ed Harris, Jonathan Pryce.

RIP Mr. Poitier :,(

EDIT: Sir Sidney

If you’re gonna call him Mr., then you call him Mr. Tibbs.

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