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Saw this on a Website this morning. One of the actors they named was Alec Baldwin in Glengarry Glen Ross.
Who says you need top billing to be the star of the movie? Sometimes, you watch a flick and you walk away delightfully entertained by a bit part cameo, and thats all you remember.
Check out these examples below. They only had maybe 10 min in the entire film, but they own those minutes and elevate the movie into something great.
Gotta earn that coffee. Its for closers only.
http://thechive.com/2018/05/30/actors-who-showed-up-in-one-scene-and-stole-the-movie-18-photos/
YOUR picks?
Zoonart
(11,861 posts)also... Gary Oldman- TRUE ROMANCE
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)James Gandolfini's scene with Patricia Arquette was beyond brutal.
Callmecrazy
(3,065 posts)mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Cause it's exactly what I was gonna give for my answer ...
Zing Zing Zingbah
(6,496 posts)He was great in those movies.
bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)Oscar win for 8 minutes but wow.
Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)I love Costner. (Always will) But suddenly he seemed like he was a 19 year old kid in this scene!
Robin Who???
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,546 posts)sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)Scotty Doesn't Know. A criminally underrated raunchy comedy.
Initech
(100,068 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)small role as well.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,785 posts)Very scene stealing to say the least.
Ohiya
(2,231 posts)In Mel Brook's Silent Movie
global1
(25,245 posts)First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...that made him a star..."you know, this used to be one hell of a good country"...
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)I burst into tears when he appeared at Padme's funeral. Really powerful stuff.
Leith
(7,809 posts)But I like the song'n'dance scene the best.
And Blinkin. He was funny.
Initech
(100,068 posts)"You can't buy love but you can rent it for 3 minutes!"
Initech
(100,068 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,423 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)The Price is Wrong Bob...
I couldn't tell you anything else about that movie.
jmowreader
(50,557 posts)Beartracks
(12,809 posts)sarge43
(28,941 posts)That was my pick as well.
Although Ned Beatty in "Network" was one hell of a strong contender:
TuxedoKat
(3,818 posts)You go from hating and fearing him throughout the entire movie until the end when he gives such a powerful monologue you completely change your feelings about his character.
AmandaRuth
(3,105 posts)i love music movies, but this movie was boring and expected until Mos Def came on as Chuck Berry and got boring again when the character was done
Brother Buzz
(36,423 posts)I'm guessing George Lucas used to dial in his AM radio to XERB late at night, just like me.
mpcamb
(2,870 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,181 posts)nolabear
(41,960 posts)spooky3
(34,447 posts)The scene in the gallery was funny.
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shanny
(6,709 posts)Steals more scenes than dogs do.
applegrove
(118,642 posts)mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)I guess that may've been a couple scenes but he wasn't in the movie much, when he was, he was pretty awesome.
Also:
Harvey Keitel - Pulp Fiction
Peter Stormare in Minority Report ... didn't 'steal the movie' but he's brilliant in his one scene as the underground eyeball replacement guy. So's the lady who helped Max Von Sydow character develop the pre-cog program, the one with the trippy plants that Cruise goes to out in the woods where he finds out about the minority report. They're pretty much my two fave scenes in that flick.
pnwmom
(108,977 posts)the most gripping 7 minutes in the movie.
Snellius
(6,881 posts)Erica Albright : You are probably going to be a very successful computer person. But you're going to go through life thinking that girls don't like you because you're a nerd. And I want you to know, from the bottom of my heart, that that won't be true. It'll be because you're an asshole.
Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)Midwestern Democrat
(806 posts)This may be one of the biggest career trajectory changing roles in Hollywood history - Moore, at 43, was hardly a household name in America at the time of "Foul Play" but on the strength of the reception from this small role, Blake Edwards was able to cast him in the lead in "10" (after Peter Sellers turned it down and George Segal walked off the film) - which briefly made Moore a superstar.
Wolf Frankula
(3,600 posts)George Burns, as God, in The Exorcist. George comes in and looks at little Regan, played by Linda Blair, on the bed. The demon starts to rage at him. He says, calmly and quietly, "Shut up." She falls on the bed. He puts his hand on her forehead and says, "Git." The demon says, "We gone!" She relaxes on the bed. God does a little song and dance shuffle and walks out.
Wolf