What is the best movie with the most famous actors in it?

Answer 1

Despite the longtime popularity of such star-studded epics as "The Longest Day" (1962) and "How the West Was Won" (also 1962), there is an argument for Robert Altman's 1992 Hollywood satire, "The Player."

Based on a novel by Michael Tolkin (who also wrote the screenplay), the movie stars Tim Robbins as a film producer who commits a homicide and tries to cover it up.

The movie features performances or cameo appearances by 13 people who had either won Academy Awards when the movie was filmed or would go on to win them. Besides Robbins, they are: Whoopi Goldberg, Cher, James Coburn, Louise Fletcher, Joel Grey, Anjelica Huston, Jack Lemmon, Marlee Matlin, Sydney Pollack, Julia Roberts, Susan Sarandon and Rod Steiger.

There also are appearances by several Oscar nominees, including Burt Reynolds, Nick Nolte, Dean Stockwell, Elliott Gould, Karen Black, Gary Busey, Buck Henry, Jeff Goldblum, Teri Garr, Sally Kellerman, Sally Kirkland and Peter Falk.

In his newspaper review of "The Player," Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave Altman's film four stars and called it "a smart movie, and a funny one...It is the movie 'The Bonfire of the Vanities' wanted to be."

"The Player" was nominated for three Academy Awards: best director (Altman), screenplay (Tolkin) and film editing (Geraldine Peroni). It also earned Altman the best director award and Robbins the best actor award at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.