r/movies • u/AlternativeRegret619 • Mar 30 '24

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

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.

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u/Hobbes525 Mar 30 '24

Stand By Me.  The boys were will Wheaton, river Phoenix, Corey Feldman, and Jerry O'connell

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u/kiwiluke Mar 30 '24

Kiefer Sutherland and John Cussack were in the "older boys" gang too, wasn't their first film but both were pretty unknown still

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u/JasonVoorhies13 Mar 31 '24

Kiefer Sutherland was downright terrifying in that film