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zombie boy 2000
06-19-2009, 03:31 PM
they were in this movie.

We have a simple little game played on one of the Forums I frequent. The rules are simple. Name a movie that you have seen years ago and that you just watched years later only to discover some famous face before he/she broke it big.
The rules are simple:
1) They cannot have been famous at the time.
2) It has to be someone that is actually famous now.
3) It cannot be a movie that you recently saw for the first time - recognizing someone famous in a bit role.

I'll start...
I remember watching Lean on Me with Morgan Freeman fairly frequently in my younger years. No idea why. I just took a likin' to it. It's pretty standard fare with a rough and tough, no nonsense principal taking over an inner city school. Eventually he wins them over with discipline and love, yada, yada, yada. They make grades. They win the big game. Everyone gets a cookie. I don't know. Details are hazy.

But anyway... there's a scene in the beginning where he calls several students on stage and promptly expels them. Watching it again recently, I noticed amid all the "whatever dude"'s and "that's neither radical or gnarly"'s none other than a teenage Michael Imperioli. Or as you might better know him, Christopher from the Sopranos. I don't even think he was listed in the credits, but there he was for all of ten seconds.

Please feel free to fire away some of your own.

miner
06-19-2009, 03:37 PM
Robert Duvall in "To Kill a Monkingbird"

nooshinjohn
06-19-2009, 03:37 PM
I remeber watching CannonBall Run with Shirley Maclaine and Burt Reynolds.... there was an asian guy co-piloting a Mitsubishi Starion that was being driven in the race by Richard Kiel of James Bond villian fame. I paid no real attention to the guy until I saw the movie on cable a few months ago... The guys name?.... Jackie Chan!

dancingwater
06-19-2009, 03:42 PM
Josh Brolin in Thrashin' lol. Not to sure if this was pre or pro Goonies but had no idea it was him as the lead.

Oh and Ethan Hawke in one of my fav 80's child movie - Explorers.

shack
06-19-2009, 04:12 PM
Harrison Ford - American Grafitti (Bob Falfa - Drove the black 55 Chevy)

Suzanne Somers - Same movie - The Blonde in the White T-Bird

ryanjoachim
06-19-2009, 04:15 PM
Red Dawn - Honestly didn't realize that Patrick Swayze was in it

Vdr1973
06-19-2009, 09:40 PM
The outsiders
Take your pick thay all had success

venomclan
06-19-2009, 09:51 PM
John Cusack - 16 Candles

xj4094dg
06-19-2009, 10:09 PM
Brad Pitt in Thelma and Louise. He bones the Gina Davis character I think.
Had no idea who he was at the time.

Chameleon2
06-19-2009, 11:32 PM
Apocalypse Now with "unknowns" Harrison Ford, Laurence "Clean" Fishbourne.

R. Lee Emory (Full Metal Jacket) was a helicopter pilot.

obieone
06-20-2009, 12:06 AM
The characters of Pauley, and Christopher from the Sopranos, had bit parts in Goodfellas.
And, R. Lee Ermy was in a movie called 'The Boys of Company C'.

george daniel
06-20-2009, 12:13 AM
Jack Nicholson,,, "Easy Rider",, George Hanson the alcoholic attorney.

LessisNevermore
06-20-2009, 12:20 AM
Val Kilmer- Real Genius


John Turturro- Brain Donors