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RyanMcGreal on April 2, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: No joke: Ashton Kutcher to play Steve Jobs in biop...

It's always a pleasure to see a screwball actor flourish on being cast outside type. Here are a few more examples:

* Will Ferrell in Stranger Than Fiction

* Robin Williams in One Hour Photo

* Adam Sandler in Punch-Drunk Love and Spanglish

* Bill Murray in Broken Flowers

rl41 on April 2, 2012 | [–]

Adam Sandler really shines in Reign Over Me.

mitjak on April 2, 2012 | [–]

I think for Williams, Dead Poets Society would be the first break of the mould.

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