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opus
05-10-2019, 04:45 PM
I recently watched A Quiet Place, and there are only six cast members listed in the end credit roll. Name some other major movies like that.

Torgo
05-10-2019, 06:43 PM
I don't know about major, but Closet Land (1991) has 2 actors: Madeleine Stowe and Alan Rickman.

The World, The Flesh and The Devil (1959) has 3: Harry Belafonte, Inger Stevens, Mell Ferrer.

Babalu
05-10-2019, 06:57 PM
Sleuth (1972) has only two cast members, Lawrence Olivier and Michael Caine.

IMDB lists a few other cast members (as credit only) but none of them appear in the movie.

JamesG
05-11-2019, 04:02 PM
One of my favs. is Richard Linklater's 2001 film Tape, featuring Ethan Hawke, Robert Sean Leonard, and Uma Thurman in a motel room for the entire film.

Two former high school friends are reminiscing about the past in a motel room. One of them doesn't know that the other arranged the meeting to get a taped confession on his ex-girlfriend's rape.

JamesG
05-17-2019, 07:51 PM
I thought about it some more after I first posted and here are some others I have seen:


Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

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The film, based on the staged play, features Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, and Sandy Dennis.







My Dinner with Andre (1981)


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Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory have dinner and chat for the entire film. The other characters are just the waiter and bartender.







Buried (2011)


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Ryan Reynolds is buried alive in a wooden coffin for the entire film. He speaks to other characters on the phone (the terrorists, his family, U.S. Army), but they do not appear onscreen.







Hard Candy (2005)


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Ellen Page plays a young woman who entraps an older guy (Patrick Wilson) online looking for a teen girl and tortures him for most of the film. Sandra Oh appears in a small role and there are others with very minor appearances.







Ex Machina (2014)


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The film features Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander, Oscar Isaac, and Sonoya Mizuno in the isolated lab for the entire film.







10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)


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The film features John Goodman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, and John Gallagher Jr. in the underground bunker for most of the film.

Torgo
05-17-2019, 08:32 PM
Found footage films...

Creep (2014) - 2 actors

Tex Montana Will Survive! (2015) - 1 actor.
There are 3 people with no speaking parts that we see briefly.

RWD (2015) - 2 actors

Optica (2013) - 3 actors

Shallow Creek Cult (2013) - 2 actors

Bonniegirl
05-18-2019, 12:35 AM
I recently watched A Quiet Place, and there are only six cast members listed in the end credit roll. Name some other major movies like that.

I saw this movie and IMO it STUNK!!! :p I'm a fan of the horror/terror/drama genre but this one fell flat I thought !!!;) :confused:

But in answering the threads question : "The Blair witch project" ! The cast only consisted pretty much only of those three poor people who got lost/trapped in the woods, and some footage of a few towns people who were interviewed !

Torgo
05-23-2019, 08:46 AM
The Caller (1987) - 2 actors. One of Malcolm McDowell's underrated films.

Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957) - 2 actors. Robert Mitchum, Deborah Kerr

Antichrist (2009) - 2 actors, mainly, one other smaller role plays the two lead's child.

opus
05-23-2019, 03:10 PM
How could I forget All Is Lost, which is basically just Robert Redford

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7a/All_is_Lost_poster.jpg

JamesG
06-11-2019, 03:13 PM
There are a couple of more "lost at sea" movies where the film is basically just the stranded people aside from a few minor characters.


Open Water (2003)

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48045152521_bca5e87c82_o.jpg




Adrift (2018)

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48045171233_6f246c6549_o.jpg

Steve_uk
06-11-2019, 05:27 PM
Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?

JamesG
06-11-2019, 06:00 PM
Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?

Already mentioned.

opus
08-29-2019, 01:02 AM
I thought about it some more after I first posted and here are some others I have seen:

Buried (2011)


https://www.thenational.ae/image/policy:1.437639:1499616072/image/jpeg.jpg


Ryan Reynolds is buried alive in a wooden coffin for the entire film. He speaks to other characters on the phone (the terrorists, his family, U.S. Army), but they do not appear onscreen.

Just saw that one. The guy got some great cell reception buried in a coffin. Sometimes I have trouble reaching people 3 blocks away.

RetroGuy2000
08-29-2019, 02:14 AM
The guy got some great cell reception buried in a coffin. Sometimes I have trouble reaching people 3 blocks away.

Was thinking the same thing. Sometimes, I have no cell phone reception in my office, surrounded by wireless networks! :lol:

Torgo
08-29-2019, 08:44 AM
Not even remotely major movies, but...

Bad Ben (2016) - 1 actor

Bad Ben - The Mandela Effect (2018) - 1 actor

The Crescent Moon Clown (2018) - 2 actors (3 if you count the clown with no lines)

Leaving D.C. (2012) - 2 actors

Jessica
09-06-2019, 02:22 PM
The Boat (2018)

It only had one cast member.

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opus
11-20-2019, 11:43 PM
There’s a new movie out called The Lighthouse which is basically just Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe (and a lighthouse, I suppose)

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MA
11-28-2019, 08:57 AM
Gerry, with only Matt Damon and Casey Affleck

JamesG
12-13-2019, 07:19 PM
The 2019 Netflix film American Son features Kerry Washington, Steven Pasquale, Jeremy Jordan, and Eugene Lee.

All reprised their roles from the stage play.

Torgo
01-02-2020, 09:31 AM
The Lighthouse (2019) 3 actors

MA
01-02-2020, 09:40 AM
Hard Candy (2005)

D-Dey
01-02-2020, 10:15 AM
Just saw that one. The guy got some great cell reception buried in a coffin. Sometimes I have trouble reaching people 3 blocks away.
I saw that too. Many of the people on his cell phone appear later on.

Supposedly, "'night Mother" has only two characters... at least in the play.

JamesG
01-02-2020, 10:22 AM
The Lighthouse (2019) 3 actors

Already mentioned.

JamesG
01-02-2020, 10:43 AM
The 2001 film The Others.

95% of the movie was the mom (Nicole Kidman), her 2 children, and the 3 servants.


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Torgo
01-02-2020, 10:44 AM
Already mentioned.

Yeah, somehow I missed the giant poster above.:lol:

MA
01-02-2020, 10:52 AM
My Dinner With Andre (1981)

JamesG
01-02-2020, 01:42 PM
My Dinner With Andre (1981)

Already mentioned.

MA
01-02-2020, 02:11 PM
Already mentioned.

Sorry.

JamesG
01-03-2020, 12:10 AM
Yeah, somehow I missed the giant poster above.:lol:

Yeah, I didn't want to say anything. I was waiting for you to notice it. :lol:

MA
01-03-2020, 08:29 AM
Timecrimes (2007)

JamesG
01-07-2020, 11:32 AM
Hard Candy (2005)

The film you changed your post with has also already been mentioned. Come on...

JamesG
01-09-2020, 12:18 PM
The 2013 film Gravity features Sandra Bullock and George Clooney stranded in outer space.

Similar to the film Buried, all other characters appear offscreen.

MA
01-09-2020, 10:05 PM
The film you changed your post with has also already been mentioned. Come on...

I'm sorry...

JamesG
01-10-2020, 03:09 PM
These feature more than 6 cast members, but worth mentioning...



With the exception of the creature and the voice on the computer, Alien (1979) featured 7 cast members.

https://i.pinimg.com/474x/9e/0c/30/9e0c30df611e59be65c304d4983f46de.jpg





The new film Underwater has only 7 actors.

https://www.aceshowbiz.com/images/still/preview/underwater-poster01.jpg

MA
01-10-2020, 03:17 PM
Alpha Beta (1976)

Torgo
01-10-2020, 06:38 PM
Wedding Trough (1974) 1 actor

Silent Running (1972) 4 onscreen actors

In Fear (2013) 3 actors

Inserts (1975) 5 actors

Animales racionales (1983) 3 actors

Tracking (1981) 5 actors

The Bushwhacker (1968) 4 actors

Torgo
01-20-2020, 09:34 AM
Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds (1989) 4 actors

AB
01-22-2020, 06:04 PM
The Glass Menagerie (1973)
4 actors

opus
02-02-2021, 10:18 PM
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Torgo
04-13-2021, 09:54 AM
Seventh Moon (2008) - 3 actors

JamesG
05-23-2021, 01:49 AM
The New Mutants (2020) featured the 5 mutants and Alice Braga in the isolated facility for majority of the film.

JamesG
06-01-2021, 05:09 PM
The Shallows (2016) is another one of those lost-at-sea movies that mainly focuses on the stranded person (Blake Lively).

5 other people are in the movie and 2 more appear strictly on video calls.

opus
06-01-2021, 05:22 PM
I recently watched A Quiet Place, and there are only six cast members listed in the end credit roll. Name some other major movies like that.

Haven't seen it yet, but it looks the cast for the sequel is quite larger

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8332922/fullcredits

JamesG
03-17-2023, 01:30 AM
The recent film The Whale, based on the play, features just 8 cast members.

opus
11-03-2023, 10:43 PM
New movie, What Happens Later. Only Meg Ryan and David Duchovny have speaking parts (besides mystery public address announcer)

>>>Although it’s set in a small regional airport filled with passengers stuck there during an epic snowstorm, it soon becomes apparent that it’s really a two-hander, with the central pair having the only speaking roles. Apart, that is, from a series of increasingly absurdist announcements on the airport loudspeaker voiced by the only other credited castmember, Hal Liggett. Liggett delivers an amusing voice performance, but don’t bother looking up his credits on IMDb. His actual identity is coyly being kept a mystery.<<<

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/what-happens-later-review-meg-ryan-david-duchovny-1235633426/