Coppola cast Gary Oldman in the film's title role, with Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder and Anthony Hopkins in supporting roles.

The film's supporting cast features Robin Sachs as the warlord, Patrick Breen as a friendly alien, and Justin Long in his feature-film debut as a fan of the television show.

Filmed on location in the Mexican state of Durango, the film starred James Coburn and Kris Kristofferson in the title roles, with a huge supporting cast including Bob Dylan ( who composed the film's music ), Jason Robards, R. G. Armstrong, Richard Jaeckel, Jack Elam, Chill Wills, Katy Jurado, L. Q. Jones, Slim Pickens and Harry Dean Stanton.

The film's cast was made up of cameos and supporting roles by Eric Bogosian, Everett McGill, Peter Greene, Kurtwood Smith and Katherine Heigl.

In the latter film, Garfield took a featured, but supporting, part because he believed deeply in the film's exposé of antisemitism in America.

Roger Ebert gave the film three-out-of-four stars, praising both the lead and supporting actors and the film's gritty, kinetic energy.

The main four actors have roles here that display similar dynamics to their roles in A Fish Called Wanda: John Cleese's character is the morally upright straight-man, Jamie Lee Curtis's character starts out morally grey but ends up romantically linked to John Cleese's character, Kevin Kline is the dense antagonist of the film's plot, and Michael Palin's character provides an active supporting role to the main events.

* Three of the film's writers appear in comical supporting roles: Ron Clark as the ( non ) deranged patient Zachary Cartwright, Rudy De Luca as the killer " Braces ," and Rain Man-director Barry Levinson as the tightly-wound bellhop, " Dennis.

The Magical Negro, or magical black friend, is a supporting stock character in American cinema who is portrayed coming to the aid of a film's white protagonists.

USA Today stated that he was among the film's " best supporting players ", while Rolling Stone gave Lerman a " shout-out " and Newsday stated that he delivers a " credibly explicit note ".

In the case of the Kenneth Branagh Hamlet, there were many famous actors playing supporting or bit roles, and these actors were given prominent billing in the posters along with the film's actual stars: Branagh, Derek Jacobi, Julie Christie, and Kate Winslet.

" Critic Roger Ebert listed the film among his category of " Great Movies "; he praised the film's supporting actors.

This has led to some claims that Pied Piper is likewise a hoax, however documentation supporting the film's existence predates the Alien Autopsy affair by many years.

Rosanna Arquette won a BAFTA Award for her portrayal of Roberta ; the fact that the award was for a " supporting role " reflected the surge in popularity that Madonna was experiencing at the time, since in terms of billing, number of scenes, lines of dialogue, and the plot, Arquette was actually the film's lead.

He and his co-star Noel Neill provided commentary on several Adventures of Superman episodes for the January 2006 DVD release of the 1953 season, and in 2006, he appears in Bryan Singer's film Superman Returns in a cameo role as " Bo the Bartender "; it was rumored prior to the film's release that his role would actually be Suicide Slum resident and Superman fan, Bibbo Bibbowski, a supporting character from the modern Superman comics.

The film's supporting cast includes two two-time Tony Award winners, Tammy Grimes and Russell Nype, June Havoc ( sister of stripper Gypsy Rose Lee ), Altovise Davis ( wife of Sammy Davis, Jr .), character actor Jack Weston, and Emmy-winner Leigh Taylor-Young.

She also plays a supporting role as the jailbait hostess, Natasha, in the 2005 American film Waiting ..., and recreated the role in the film's 2009 sequel, Still Waiting ....

As Edwards shot the film, employing multiple takes of improvised scenes, it became clear Sellers, originally considered a supporting actor, was stealing the scenes, and resulted in his continuation throughout the film's sequels.

Bruce Campbell also joined the cast in Raimi's Darkman and The Quick and the Dead, though having no actual screen time in the latter film's theatrical cut.

She eventually falls in love with Fred and joins him in the film's epilogue as a cast member on the revived television series.

Anne Brebner, the film's casting director, was almost cast as Harold's mother when Vivian Pickles was briefly unable to do the role.

In the film's trailer, Bogart is repeatedly mentioned first but Robinson's name is listed above Bogart's in a cast list at the trailer's very end.

Scott cast Tom Cruise as the film's hero, Jack, Mia Sara as Princess Lili, and Tim Curry as the Satan-horned Lord of Darkness.

Just as today, a film's success depended upon the setting, the mood, the script, the skills of the director, and the overall talent of the cast.

The primary cast for First Contact is from the Star Trek: The Next Generation television series, to which the film's producers added Alice Krige, Neal McDonough, James Cromwell and Alfre Woodard.

During a cast reunion in honor of the film's 25th anniversary, Ally Sheedy revealed that it was Hughes ' director's cut, but Hughes ' widow did not disclose any details concerning its whereabouts.

Star Heath Ledger's death in January 2008 cast doubt on the film's future, but the production was salvaged with the addition of new actors playing his character in scenes he did not complete.

Brooks, who is also executive producer of The Simpsons, had cast Smith in his 1994 film I'll Do Anything ( in one of the film's musical numbers ) but her part was cut.

Among the cooks serving the film's cast and crew between shots were some of the Chinese laborers who actually worked on the Central Pacific section of the railroad.

The film's large cast and intertwining of many different storylines were similar to his large-cast films of the 1970s ; he won the Golden Lion at the 1993 Venice International Film Festival and another Oscar nomination for Best Director.

Żuławski went back to France to find that the reels of unfinished film were preserved, along with costumes and props, by the Polish film studio and archives and by members of the film's cast and crew.

The soundtrack album spent 12 non-consecutive weeks at No. 1 and yielded three Top 5 singles for Newton-John: the platinum " You're The One That I Want " ( No. 1 Pop, No. 23 AC ) with John Travolta, the gold " Hopelessly Devoted to You " ( No. 3 Pop, No. 20 Country, No. 7 AC ) and the gold " Summer Nights " ( No. 5 Pop, No. 21 AC ) with John Travolta and the film's cast.

The film's directors, Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker, chose Nielsen for the role based on his ability to play " a fish in water ", stating that " You could have cast funny people and done it with everybody winking, goofing off, and silly ... we wanted people to be oblivious to the comedy.

Joseph Pilato was cast as Rhodes, the film's antagonist.

The film's cast and crew resolved to make an uplifting, patriotic film.

A studio cast recording of the film's songs was released by Decca soon after the film, with Danny Kaye, Jane Wyman, and a backup chorus singing the songs from the film, also including two Sylvia Fine originals made specifically for the album, " Uncle Pockets " and " There's a Hole at the Bottom of the Sea ", and Danny Kaye's narration of two Tubby the Tuba stories by Paul Tripp.

Some of the film's cast and crew, including Spielberg, retrospectively view the film in an unfavorable light.

After directing The Search for Spock, cast member Leonard Nimoy was asked to direct the next feature, and given greater freedom regarding the film's content.

In response to a letter from Paul Truswell, MP for the Pudsey constituency ( which includes Horsforth, a town proud of its connection with HMS Aubretia ), U. S. president Bill Clinton wrote assuring that the film's plot was only a work of fiction.

Along with other foreign-made works, the film's U. S. copyright was restored in 1998, but the constitutionality of this copyright extension was challenged in Golan v. Gonzales and as Golan v. Holder it was ruled that " In the United States, that body of law includes the bedrock principle that works in the public domain remain in the public domain.

Other music includes incidental music in the scene at the Ritz and an arrangement of I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby during the beginning and ending credits by the film's musical director Roy Webb.

The film's opening credits state that the screenplay was written by W. R. Burnett and Frank Butler " From the Records of The United States Marine Corps ", and includes many Marine Corps and military advisers.

Other features include: " The Surprise Attack ", a multi-angle breakdown of the film's most exciting sequence ( 30 minutes ), which includes multiple video tracks ( such as previsualization and final edit ) and commentaries from veterans / Also included is the " Pearl Harbor Historic Timeline ", a set-top interactive feature produced by documentarian Charles Kiselyak ( 68 minutes ).

The film's ensemble cast also includes Carrie Fisher, Maureen O ' Sullivan, Lloyd Nolan, Max von Sydow, and Julie Kavner.

The score forms part of the film's soundtrack, which also usually includes dialogue and sound effects, and comprises a number of orchestral, instrumental or choral pieces called cues which are timed to begin and end at specific points during the film in order to enhance the dramatic narrative and the emotional impact of the scene in question.

The film's soundtrack includes music by Goran Bregović and the participation of Cesária Évora.

This includes the film's theme song, sung by Eric Idle putting on a French accent, accompanied with an establishing animated opening segment that does not include any actual credits.

It includes Streisand's rendition of " The Way We Were ", which at the time of the film's release was a commercial success and her first # 1 single in the United States.

The film's soundtrack includes songs by Van Morrison, Blue October, The Working Title, Foo Fighters, Feeder, Avril Lavigne, American Hi-Fi, Sum 41, the All-American Rejects, Joseph Arthur, New Found Glory, and Hot Action Cop.

Commentary tracks featuring McDowell and Mirren are included on the non-hardcore, pre-release version, and the DVD includes interviews with Tinto Brass, who discusses the film's hectic production and botched editing ; and Penthouse Pet Lori Wagner, who discusses the addition of the hardcore footage, including the lesbian sex scene in which she participated.

This fictitious document is destroyed during the film's action ; the film also includes a close-up of the real Gwinnett's signature on the Declaration of Independence.

The soundtrack includes songs that are contemporaneous with the film's setting, along with original music by Elliot Goldenthal.

The film's soundtrack includes " You Upset Me Baby " performed by B. B.

The film's soundtrack includes songs by World Party, Squeeze, The Knack (" My Sharona " featured prominently in one scene from the film ), Juliana Hatfield, Social Distortion, and two contributions from Crowded House (" Locked Out " and " Something So Strong ") in addition to the runaway hit " Stay ( I Missed You )" by Lisa Loeb, which earned Loeb the distinction of being the only artist to top the Hot 100 before being signed to any record label.

In 2005, Routledge published a companion book, Derrida, which includes the film's screenplay, several essays on the film, and interviews with Derrida, Dick, and Ziering Kofman.

The film's music is inspired by that of the 1920s, and includes characters reminiscent of Josephine Baker, Fred Astaire, Glenn Gould and a Django Reinhardt-like character who plays along to the dancing Triplettes as Charles Trenet conducts the band.

Crumb disliked how the film presented the sexual content and politics, denouncing Fritz's dialogue in the final sequences of the film, which includes a quote from The Beatles song " The End ", as " red-neck and fascistic " Following the film's release, The People's Comics published the story " Fritz the Cat ' Superstar '", in which Crumb satirized Bakshi and Krantz.

The film's soundtrack includes three distinct pieces: the passionate aria Erbarme dich from Johann Sebastian Bach's Matthew Passion, soothing Japanese flute music played by Watazumi Doso Roshi, and eerie traditional chants from the Swedish forests ( in the old days farm girls used to call home the livestock from their forest pastures in this way ).

The film's voice cast includes Maurice LaMarche and Charles Adler.

The film's main cast includes Bob Holt, Jesse Welles, Richard Romanus, David Proval and Steve Gravers.

The film's all star cast includes Dennis Christopher, Annette O ' Toole, John Ritter, Richard Thomas, Tim Reid, Michael Cole, and Tim Curry as the evil Pennywise.

The novel is based on the film's shooting script, which includes most of this information.