Movies that made careers

[LostinVA]

"Rules": it can't be their first movie.

I'll start: Sandra Bullock in "Demolition Man." She was funny, sweet, and make me actually LIKE a movie with Stallone in it.

[MrScorpio]

1. George Clooney - From Dusk Till Dawn

[NYCGirl]

2. My favorite film: "Out of the Past"

Made a star of Robert Mitchum and helped kick off Kirk Douglas' career.

[patrice]

3. Nicholas Cage in Wild at Heart.

But not Laura Dern, because she had already been in Blue Velvet, which would be the movie that made her career . . . ?

[LostinVA]

4. Kate Winslet: "Heavenly Creatures"

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5. harrison ford -- star wars, of course

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6. "The Graduate"--Dustin Hoffman

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8. ok, this wasn't TECHNICALLY his first movie, but ...

for all practical purposes it was. his only other movie was the same year, a bit part in the "the tiger makes out".

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10. It was his breakthrough

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21. i think the point was to HAVE a movie career first and THEN a breakthrough

dustin hoffman basically just started at the top.

harrison ford, e.g., was in several movies, most notably american graffiti, but didn't make the a-list until star wars.

[mitchum]

7. In Cold Blood" for Robert Blake

"Rich Man, Poor Man" TV miniseries for Nick Nolte

[truthbetold]

9. Jodie Foster, "Silence of the Lambs".

I don't think it was her first movie, but I could be mistaken.
I saw it for the first time just a few days ago, and I LOVE it. Then again, I've always had a taste for the macabre.

[NYCGirl]

14. I think Jodie Foster's breakthrough film was "Taxi Driver"

when she was 14 years old. She got her first Oscar nomination for that film.

[truthbetold]

17. I stand corrected then...

In my defense, it was before my time. As most things are, when you're 19, haha.

[NYCGirl]

20. Rent "Taxi Driver"; it's a great film. NT

[DelawareValleyDem]

11. Easy Rider - Jack Nicholson

"It's real hard to be free when you are bought and sold in the marketplace"

[terrya]

12. "Funny Girl" for Barbra Streisand

She made "Hello Dolly" before "Funny Girl". But "Funny Girl"...and the Oscar she won for it...made Ms. Streisand's film career.

[Parrcrow]

13. Samuel L Jackson -- Pulp Fiction

[Richardo]

15. 'The Godfather' made all of those guys except Brando.

Pacino, Caan, Duvall.

But Diane Keaton had to wait 'til Annie Hall in 1977 for a real breakout role.

[AlCzervik]

16. Tom Cruise-Risky business

[supernova]

18. Johnny Depp - Edward Scissorhands

This was the movie that made everybody look at him as more than a pin up pretty face.

[CO Liberal]

19. "Rocky"

Before that, Sly Stallone was just one of the "Lords of Flatbush".

[Lydia Leftcoast]

22. Diane Keaton: "Annie Hall"

and Meryl Streep: "Sophie's Choice."

Yes, I know that "Sophie's Choice" wasn't Meryl Streep's first movie, but it was the first one where she had more than a few lines.