Which feature-length film has the smallest cast list?

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I know Tape has three people but I'm sure there must be films with only two actors, or even one. ILF seems a bit heavy for a qu like this so I've stuck it here, on light 'n breezy ILE. So, to repeat: which feature-length film has the smallest cast list?

― Affectian (Affectian), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 09:08 (twenty years ago)

What was that one with Joan Collins and Steven Berkoff?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 09:11 (twenty years ago)

ach, "Decadence", has an "entourage" at one point, so that's out.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 09:13 (twenty years ago)

What about that one with Robert Shaw and Malcolm McDowell? "Figures In a Landscape"? Directed by Robert Shaw?? Possibly even from the novel by Robert Shaw???

― When You Wore a Tulip (and I Had a Big Red Nose) (Dada), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 09:13 (twenty years ago)

What about films of standup comics? Surely they have a cast list of 1?

― Mrs. Cranky (From Crankytown) (kate), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 09:14 (twenty years ago)

"Krapps last tape". Starring John Hurt. And that's it.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 09:15 (twenty years ago)

That's not feature-length, it's not really a "film" either. Whereas "Film" (screenplay: Samuel Beckett), starring Buster Keaton is a film.... not feature-length tho

― When You Wore a Tulip (and I Had a Big Red Nose) (Dada), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 09:17 (twenty years ago)

Sleuth, it turns out, has 5 five people in it, three more than anyone remembers.

Swimming To Cambodia only has one, but may be considered cheating.

Gus Van Sant's Gerry = Matt Damon, Casey Affleck and that's it!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 09:17 (twenty years ago)

Wait! I know!!! Andy Warhol's (Paul Morrissey's?) Empire State Building!

it has a cast of ZERO!!!

― Mrs. Cranky (From Crankytown) (kate), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 09:18 (twenty years ago)

Figures in a Landscape = five people.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 09:18 (twenty years ago)

(OK, it's not feature length, it is a bazillion hours long, but still.)

― Mrs. Cranky (From Crankytown) (kate), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 09:18 (twenty years ago)

altman's 'secret honor'? haven't seen, but i think it's just anthony hopkins.

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 09:19 (twenty years ago)

Figures in a Landscape = five people.

I know, I just googled it, it has a cast of 10, was directed by Joseph Losey from the novel by Barry England - so I was pretty much wrong on every count!

― When You Wore a Tulip (and I Had a Big Red Nose) (Dada), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 09:20 (twenty years ago)

altman's 'secret honor'? haven't seen, but i think it's just anthony hopkins.

It's just Phillip Baker Hall. Anthony Hopkins was in Oliver Stone's "Nixon", which had a cast list of several million

― When You Wore a Tulip (and I Had a Big Red Nose) (Dada), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 09:21 (twenty years ago)

Blue doesn't have anyone or anything in it. It has people on the soundtrack, though.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 09:22 (twenty years ago)

aha! i have secret honor on tape but um never got round to it.

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 09:23 (twenty years ago)

Was the movie Telephone considered a full length movie? Whoopi Goldburg
Starred in it years ago. All she did throughout the show was talk to someone on the other end whom you never saw.

― Judith Deslongchamps (Judith), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 09:24 (twenty years ago)

The Telephone has a cast list of at least 15 according to http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096241/

Sleuth was one of my first thoughts too! But then I remembered the police people toward the end. Still, if we're doing the best films with the smallest cast list then Sleuth has to be my #1.

I imagine a high % of films on this list have their origins in the theatre.

― Affectian (Affectian), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 09:40 (twenty years ago)

"My Dinner With Andre"?

― Douglas (Douglas), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 10:09 (twenty years ago)

"Secret Honor" was a TV thing as well, was it not? I don't think it was released in cinemas... could be wrong

― When You Wore a Tulip (and I Had a Big Red Nose) (Dada), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 10:11 (twenty years ago)

'Copenhagen' has three people in it.

― Dave B (daveb), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 10:17 (twenty years ago)

And so does "The Caretaker"

― When You Wore a Tulip (and I Had a Big Red Nose) (Dada), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 10:19 (twenty years ago)

Copenhagen's a Telly Movie, though.

The Caretaker = Robert Shaw strikes again. Maybe he doesn't like people?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 10:22 (twenty years ago)

I think this all depends whether we count voice actors as "cast" (and why not?). Blue has a cast just like animated features have a cast. I wonder if anyone's tried to do a feature-length films with no people appearing in them at all (in voice or in body)? The only examples I can think of are narrationless nature documentaries, such as Luc Besson's Atlantis.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 10:23 (twenty years ago)

No, wait! There's also Harry Smith's Heaven and Earth Magic, which is an experimental feature-length animation (66 min) with no speech at all.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 10:24 (twenty years ago)

The Caretaker = Robert Shaw strikes again. Maybe he doesn't like people?

It's all Harold Pinter's fault (he's in the movie of "The Birthday Party" an' all)

― When You Wore a Tulip (and I Had a Big Red Nose) (Dada), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 10:25 (twenty years ago)

And Fantasia by Disney too, obviously.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 10:25 (twenty years ago)

No, sorry, I forgot that it has a little bit of narration, and Leopold Stokowski also appear in the beginning.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 10:27 (twenty years ago)

my first and best guess is
'hell in the pacific'. directed by john boorman, a proper full on hollywood art movie, biggish budget, 2 cast.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063056/

― piscesboy, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 11:07 (twenty years ago)

My Dinner With Andre has four people on IMDB, including the waiter and bartender.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 11:20 (twenty years ago)

Hell in the Pacific has 4 cast in the original cut :)

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 11:20 (twenty years ago)

oh BALLS. oh well. not according to imdb,
but then hey what do they know.

― piscesboy, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 11:26 (twenty years ago)

oh BALLS. oh well. not according to imdb,
but then hey what do they know.

― piscesboy, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 11:26 (twenty years ago)

It's actually in the IMDB board for that film (haven of unknowledge that it is) that I found out about that. It might be a lie, but sound plausible.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 11:29 (twenty years ago)

David Mamet's Oleanna is two characters. IMDB credits a clerk in a copy shop - but I don't rememeber that person. If there is a clerk, he does not speak.

― Draw Tipsy, ya hack. (dave225.3), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 11:45 (twenty years ago)

Johnathan livingstone seagull?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 11:53 (twenty years ago)

man i would be so depressed if i directed a movie that only had matt damon and casey affleck in it

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 12:16 (twenty years ago)

we were just talking the other night at the fake fictions show about how that movie is not very good.

do spalding gray films count?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 12:35 (twenty years ago)

oh wait, sorry, didn't see this:

Swimming To Cambodia only has one, but may be considered cheating.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 12:36 (twenty years ago)

secret honor was def. shown at the cinema in the uk

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 12:57 (twenty years ago)

Gerry with Matt Damon and Casey Affleck. (Did I get the name right?)

― mcd (mcd), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 13:01 (twenty years ago)

Smallest cast:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00003CWHQ.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― When You Wore a Tulip (and I Had a Big Red Nose) (Dada), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 13:04 (twenty years ago)

haha, I was just going to say Under The Rainbow

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)

Doesn't Poyanistwattingqaatsi technically have no people in it?

― I Ain't No Addict, Whoever Heard of a Junkie as Old as Me? (noodle vague), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 01:08 (twenty years ago)

the cover of that Herzog DVD is appaling.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 01:21 (twenty years ago)

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