Six Actor Reunions That Seemed a Touch, Well, Interesting Given Their Previous Pairing(s)

By Matt Prigge
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James Stewart and Kim Novak, Bell, Book and Candle (1958): In Vertigo, Stewart played an obsessive freak and Novak his all-too-compliant obsessee, but the film was a major critical and commercial bomb. And yet six months later Stewart was under Novak's spell again, this time in Richard Quine's ickily whimsical blockbuster about Greenwich Village witches. Until Vertigo's reassessment decades later, the two were known jointly as airy rom-com headliners, not one of cinema's most profoundly troubled couples.

Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters, Pennies From Heaven (1981): Martin flirted with drama relatively early in his career, and to prove he was serious he dragged along his wife from The Jerk. As a miserable Depression-era shlub who escapes into musical fantasies, Martin shares a couple lavish numbers with Broadway maelstrom Peters, though such highs are nixed by a scene where Martin pathetically forces himself on her.

Joe Pesci and Frank Vincent, Casino (1995): Pesci beat the shit out of Vincent in Raging Bull and whacked him in GoodFellas. But Vincent had his meta-revenge in Casino, leading a gang that bashed Pesci's bones to mush with baseball bats, then buried him alive.

Helen Mirren and Michael Gambon, Gosford Park (2001): When Gambon was mysteriously snuffed in Robert Altman's period whodunit, the killer's identity wasn't hard to deduce--not when his head maid was played by Mirren, who previously wreaked serious vengeance upon him in The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover.

Jeff Daniels and Anna Paquin, The Squid and the Whale (2005): "Put me in your mouth," Daniels' monster of a father commands to hot student Paquin. That wretching you hear comes from those who remember that not a decade prior Daniels and Paquin starred in Fly Away Home ... as father and daughter. Blech!

Jason Bateman and Michael Cera, Juno (2007): Bateman and Cera never share a scene in this teen pregnancy comedy, but try to ignore that George-Michael Bluth is essentially giving his accidental spawn to his own dad.

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