Once Sean Penn had designs on playing Larry, as Benicio del Toro had on Moe and Jim Carrey on Curly.

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The cast is a blast, including Bruce Willis, Michael Madsen, Clive Owen, Benicio Del Toro, a bewitching Carla Gugino, and a renascent Mickey Rourke.

NEWYORKER: Sin City

Benicio Del Toro, dolorously made up with clown circles under his eyes, plays the Jesus-freak ex-con who accidentally runs down a man and his two little girls.

NEWYORKER: 21 Grams

Benicio Del Toro gives an Oscar-worthy performance as Javier Rodriguez, an honest Mexican border cop who works in the trenches of corruption, power and greed where the drugs enter the country.

CNN: graphic

Bread and Roses is not without humour, most notably in the scene where the janitors gatecrash a Hollywood party attended by Tim Roth, Benicio Del Toro and a host of other Hollywood notables.

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Also stars Benicio Del Toro and John Travolta.

NEWYORKER: Going South

The cast includes John Travolta, Salma Hayek and Benicio Del Toro, but the main characters are played by young actors Blake Lively ("Gossip Girl") and Aaron Johnson ("Kick-Ass"), plus Taylor Kitsch, seeking redemption after starring in "John Carter" and "Battleship, " both big-budget road kill earlier this year.

WSJ: Salma Hayek, John Travolta and Benicio Del Toro in Oliver Stone's Savages

The cast is honored by the presence of Benicio Del Toro, first seen in the garb of a Hasidic Jew, and especially by Brad Pitt, who plays what is rumored to be an Irish Gypsy, although no one, least of all the other characters, can decipher what he has to say.

NEWYORKER: Snatch