10 Movies With INSANE Casts You've Never Heard Of

10. Paper Man

Believe it or not, there's a Ryan Reynolds-starring superhero movie you've almost certainly never heard of. 

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Quietly dumped in cinemas in 2010 where it grossed a grand total of $13,514 domestically, Paper Man stars Jeff Daniels as Richard Dunn, a failed writer who still speaks to his childhood imaginary friend, a superhero by the name of Captain Excellent (Reynolds).

Elsewhere, Richard's wife is played by Lisa Kudrow, and top it all off, a post-Superbad, pre-Oscar Emma Stone is also in the mix as rebellious teenager Abby, while Kieran Culkin portrays Abby's own imaginary friend, Christopher - because why the hell not?

Even accepting that Reynolds, Stone, and Culkin blew up considerably in the years following Paper Man's release, it still touted some mighty star wattage for its time. And yet, the YouTube comments for its trailer are filled with nothing but "Is this a real movie?" and "Did the studio forget to release it?"

Granted, the few critics who bothered to review it weren't terribly enthusiastic, but even so, the eclectic cast alone should've prevented this one from tumbling into the pop-culture abyss.

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