The terrific cast also includes Donald Sutherland, Mary Beth Hurt, Bruce Davison, and Anthony Michael Hall.

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The extraordinary cast includes Donald Sutherland, Eileen Atkins, Brendan Gleeson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Giovanni Ribisi.

NEWYORKER: Cold Mountain

Solow was also responsible for commissioning the WWII comedy caper Kelly's Heroes, which starred Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas and Donald Sutherland.

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From Donald Sutherland's son Kiefer to John Aniston's daughter Jennifer to Goldie Hawn's daughter Kate Hudson, Tinseltown's top shelf teems with superstar offspring.

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Jennifer Jason Leigh and Rebecca DeMornay also show up, but only Robert De Niro, as an arson investigator, and Donald Sutherland, as a pyromaniac, rise above the material.

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We get plenty of footage, most of it menacingly narrated by Donald Sutherland and Phillip Seymour Hoffman, but we get the clear sense that nothing we are seeing is past the first act of the film.

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At first it was exciting to meet people like Patty Duke and husband John Astin, Donald Sutherland, Hank Aaron, the entire Chicago Bulls team, Leonard Nimoy, novelist Ray Bradbury, a few comedians and lots and lots of politicians.

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With Kevin Costner as New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, Sissy Spacek as his wife, Gary Oldman as Oswald, and an all-star cast of witnesses and conspirators: Tommy Lee Jones, Joe Pesci (an abominable performance), Donald Sutherland, Kevin Bacon, Jack Lemmon, Ed Asner, John Candy, Walter Matthau.

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