Career: Turner started out the on stage, making her Broadway debut in 1977. She had a regular role in US soap The Doctors before making her first film, Body Heat, in 1981. Her sexy performance propelled her to stardom. Her follow-up movies were the smash-hit comedy The Man with Two Brains and Romancing the Stone. Throughout the rest of the 1980s, Turner was a massive star, appearing in Prizzi's Honour, Peggy Sue Got Married (for which she was Oscar-nominated), The Accidental Tourist and The War of the Roses. She also voiced Jessica Rabbit in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Turner didn't do as well in the 1990s, but did appear in the acclaimed Serial Mom and The Virgin Suicides. She has also guest starred in Friends as Chandler's drag queen father, and has returned to the theatre, most notably in The Graduate, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Bakersfield Mist.

Career: Douglas appeared in numerous projects before landing a lead role in TV series The Streets of San Francisco in 1972. Three years later he won an Oscar for co-producing One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. He continued his acting career with roles in such hits as Romancing the Stone and its sequel, The Jewel of the Nile, Fatal Attraction, Wall Street (for which he won the Best Actor Oscar), Black Rain, The War of the Roses, Basic Instinct, Falling Down, Disclosure, The Game, A Perfect Murder, Wonder Boys, Traffic and You, Me and Dupree. He reprised his Gordon Gekko character in Oliver Stone's 2010 Wall Street sequel, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. Douglas was forced to take a break from acting in 2010 when he underwent chemotherapy and radiation treatment for throat cancer. The illness and aggressive treatment caused him to lose more than two stone in weight. In January 2011, he revealed in an interview that the tumour had gone, but he needs to attend regular screenings as there is a very high likelihood that the cancer could return. He has returned to movie-making however, with a subsequent appearance in Haywire.

Career: DeVito's first movie was 1970's Dreams of Glass. Small roles followed in Bananas, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (produced by Douglas), and The Van. His big break came when he was cast as acerbic boss Louie in hit sitcom Taxi. Since then, he has worked steadily in such films as Terms of Endearment, Romancing the Stone, The Jewel of the Nile, Twins, Batman Returns, Big Fish and Be Cool. DeVito has also directed several movies and has his own production company, Jersey Films, which was responsible for classics such as Pulp Fiction and Erin Brockovich.

Career: At USC, Zemeckis developed a close friendship with fellow student Bob Gale, who he co-wrote the Back to the Future trilogy with. After winning a Student Academy Award at USC for his film A Field of Honor, Zemeckis formed a working relationship with director Steven Spielberg, who executive produced a number of his films. Zemeckis was struggling to find work in the early 1980s until Michael Douglas hired him to direct Romancing the Stone. It was a box-office hit and gave Zemeckis the clout he needed to direct Back to the Future (1985), which was hugely successful and was followed by two sequels. He went on to direct a string of successful movies, including Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), Death Becomes Her (1992), Forrest Gump (1994), Contact (1997), What Lies Beneath (2000), Cast Away (2000), The Polar Express (2004) and A Christmas Carol (2009). He produced box-office animated flop Mars Needs Moms (2011) but bounced back by directing live-action drama Flight (2012).