Name That Movie!

[Crackpot]

I've seen the movie might have even liked it but I have no idea what it is.

[Lord Jim]

If nobody else gets it by later today, I'm going to go ahead and answer it...

[Big RR]

Since I'm travelling, I'll leave it for you Jim. But I agree, it was panned by almost all critics.

[MajGenl.Meade]

Clash of the Titans

[Bicycle Bill]

Clash of the Titans

I don't believe there were six Oscar winners in "Clash of the Titans".
But whether there were or not, that's not it.

-"BB"-

[oldr_n_wsr]

Clash of the Titans

I don't think Bubo had a mate.

[Guinevere]

If DaB, sorry, Dats knows that much about the movie why doesn't he guess?

[datsunaholic]

Because it would be cheating.

[Lord Jim]

Okay...

There are no less than SIX Academy Award winners in the cast.

Yes, but this movie was panned by many of the critics...

Since I'm travelling, I'll leave it for you Jim. But I agree, it was panned by almost all critics.

Get it..."panned"...

[Bicycle Bill]

And LJ has it, although at least two other people had posted some not-so-subtle references that told me they knew the answer also but were stringing it out for ..... the LULZ, I guess.

And for the record —
All three members of the main cast — Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman, and Julia Roberts — were or would become Oscar winners.  The other winners were Dame Maggie Smith, who played Grandma Wendy; Gwyneth Paltrow, who played the young Wendy in one of the flashbacks and some eight years later would win her Oscar for her role in "Shakespeare in Love"; and Phil Collins (yes, the musician from the band "Genesis"), who had a bit part as Police Inspector Good and would later win a "Best Original Song" Oscar in 2000 for "You'll Be In My Heart" from the animated Disney movie "Tarzan".

In addition, the movie also included FIVE-time Oscar nominee Glenn Close as "Gutless", the pirate who ends up in the "boo box", as well as an uncredited George Lucas, a four-time Oscar nominee who would receive the Irving K. Thalberg Memorial Award from the Motion Picture Academy the following year, as the "man kissing on bridge".  And who was the woman he was kissing?  None other than an also-uncredited Carrie Fisher!

-"BB"-

[Lord Jim]

Okay, new movie quote, (a longer quote then I usually give)

[Character name redacted]: And in all the fourteen years, you’ve never wanted to play anywhere else?

[Character name redacted]: Oh, you mean the big time? Boy, why does everybody seem to think you have to want to play the big time? Why? You get to the top of the ladder and you’re a slave to your fans; you’ve got no life of your own. Then you’ve got to start worrying about staying up there. Oh, no. Not for me. I’m happy doing what I’m doing.

Additional clues to start with:

This is a "black comedy" but not a "harsh" one...

And hardly a "cult film"...

It has an All-Star Cast, with at least seven actors/actresses who should be well known to most of the folks around here...

Two Academy Award Nominations...(not in major categories, but the film was also a commercial success... not a blockbuster, but 11th highest grossing flick for the year it came out...)

[RayThom]

I think I got this one... "The Prize."

[Lord Jim]

I think I got this one... "The Prize."

A black comedy?

I don't think you could call the adaptation of that Irving Wallace novel a "black comedy"...

But you've got the right time frame...

And one of the actors...

[dales]

Eine SCHWARZE COMDEDY?

[datsunaholic]

If "The Prize" is the right time frame then I'm out. I was thinking more along the lines of "Bull Durham" but that's late 80s. Plus it only had one Academy Award nomination.

There are only 2 films from the same decade as "The Prize" that I know any dialogue from, and both were Kubrick films.

[MajGenl.Meade]

Big Momma's House

[Lord Jim]

Big Momma's House

Okay, another clue:

The starring actress of this movie has also starred in two other movies that have recently been used in this thread...

[oldr_n_wsr]

Stab in the dark
The Natural?

[Lord Jim]

[Crackpot]

Broadway Danny Rose.