Top Twenty Movies Featuring the Freaks and Geeks Kids

(Here, by request and in chronological order, are what I consider to be the twenty best movies featuring any of the main cast of young Freaks and Geeks actors: Linda Cardellini, John Francis Daley, James Franco, Samm Levine, Busy Philipps, Seth Rogen, Jason Segel, and Martin Starr.)

 

  • Hero (with Martin Starr, 1992)

  • Can’t Hardly Wait (with Jason Segel, 1998)

  • Donnie Darko (with Seth Rogen, 2001)

  • Legally Blonde (with Linda Cardellini, 2001)

  • Spider-Man 2 (with James Franco, 2004)

  • Brokeback Mountain (with Linda Cardellini, 2005)

  • Knocked Up (with James Franco, Seth Rogen, Jason Segel, and Martin Starr, 2007)

  • Superbad (with Seth Rogen and Martin Starr, 2007)

  • Milk (with James Franco, 2008)

  • Adventureland (with Martin Starr, 2009)

  • Inglourious Basterds (with Samm Levine, 2009)

  • 50/50 (with Seth Rogen, 2011)

  • Jeff, Who Lives at Home (with Jason Segel, 2011)

  • The Iceman (with James Franco, 2012)

  • Spring Breakers (with James Franco, 2012)

  • The Gift (with Busy Philipps, 2015)

  • Spider-Man: Homecoming (with Martin Starr, 2017)

  • The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (with James Franco, 2018)

  • A Simple Favor (with Linda Cardellini, 2018)

  • Honey Boy (with Martin Starr, 2019)

— April 21, 2021


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