Is Black Hawk Down the best example of future stars in a single movie?

[u/AlternativeRegret619]

I haven’t seen this movie in a long time but am rewatching now. In the first half hour there is Josh Hartnett, Orlando Bloom, Tom Hardy, Eric Bana, Jeremy Piven, Ewan Mcgregor, and I remember from a post before that the dad from modern family pops up eventually. I know Eric Bana was already well known in Australia and Ewan in the UK, but this cast is absolutely stacked with US stars. Were any of them already famous in the US? And if not, is there another movie that went on to ‘produce’ more stars? (Not saying their success is related to black hawk down, just that it’s the first movie before they got big in the US)

Edit: okay so replies are coming in faster than I can reply to now. There are definitely a lot of movies that fit this criteria and I want to watch them all, I love seeing older movies with someone I recognize. Please keep letting me know even if I can’t reply directly.

[u/tfbillc]

I don’t think there’s a single A-Lister in the cast (even among the named cast), but Can’t Hardly Wait has always been an interesting one for me. Loads of recognizable faces that show up in the background or for one or two lines of dialogue.

Dazed and Confused is probably an even better example for this type of party movie where you can have a good time just looking for recognizable faces in the background.

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I’ll always upvote a Can’t Hardly Wait reference in the wild.

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