Richard Dreyfuss won Best Actor for The Goodbye Girl at twenty-nine, the youngest winner in the category at that point.
Jaws and Close Encounters made him a Spielberg fixture, and Hooper in Jaws is the one that lasts, playing an educated outsider whose enthusiasm the other two find exhausting.
American Graffiti and Mr Holland’s Opus fill out the range. He was severely injured in a car crash in 1982 and has been open about the cocaine addiction that preceded it, and about the long recovery afterward.
Lorraine GaryJaws (1975) rates 10 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The mechanical shark did not work, the schedule ran three times over, and the failure produced the technique. Spielberg was twenty-seven and had to build suspense out of everything…
Candy ClarkGeorge Lucas's 1973 1962 California teen ensemble. Soundtrack establishes nostalgia template.
Ben KingsleyThe film adapts Roald Dahl's 1961 children's novel about an orphan who escapes his abusive aunts by climbing inside a magically enormous peach and floating across the Atlantic with a crew of human-sized talking insects. The film made approximately twenty-eight…
Kevin DillonWolfgang Petersen modernized the 1972 disaster classic. Same story, leaner runtime, no religion, upgraded effects.
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