5 Forgotten Movies Of Brad Pitt’s Career
Long-Lost Brad Pitt Films
Brad Pitt and his legendary acting career have been a delight for Hollywood fans for decades. With his latest addition, F1, Pitt has proven that even at this stage of his career, he can still bring a cool, compelling character to life. But even with such a golden filmography, a few of Pitt’s movies have slipped through the cracks and faded from public memory. Today, we’re taking a look back at some of those overlooked gems.
5. Cutting Class (1989)
Brad Pitt's first-ever top-billed role was not in a prestigious drama, but in a schlocky, low-budget slasher movie. He plays Dwight Ingalls, the popular basketball jock and all-around good guy who becomes a suspect (and a target) when a killer starts knocking off students at his high school. It's a bizarre but fascinating time capsule of his pre-fame days, and most fans have no idea his career started here.
4. Johnny Suede (1991)
Released the same year as Thelma & Louise, this bizarre indie film stars Pitt as the title character, a dim-witted dreamer with a colossal pompadour who desperately wants to be a rock star like his idol, Ricky Nelson. The giant hair and quirky premise make it a "must-see" for die-hard fans and a "what-was-that?" for everyone else. It's an oddball musical-comedy that is worlds away from the slick, charismatic roles that would make him a star.
3. Cool World (1992)
After his breakthrough in Thelma and Louis, Brad Pitt was the star to lookout for in the industry. Pitt starred in this big-budget, live-action/animation hybrid from director Ralph Bakshi. He plays a detective in the "Cool World," a chaotic cartoon dimension, who warns a human cartoonist (Gabriel Byrne) that "noids" (humans) and "doodles" (cartoons) are forbidden to have sex. But the movie ends up as a box office disaster, owing to the script being nonsensical and a chaotic mess.
2. The Devil's Own (1997)
When the two biggest stars of the 90s come together, you would expect them to rule the theaters. However, the disastrous production prevented Brad Pitt and Harrison Ford starrer from ever achieving the classic status it was meant for. The final product was a muddled, joyless, and forgettable thriller that both stars openly criticized, and it has since faded from memory. Pitt plays a charismatic IRA terrorist who escapes to America and hides out in the home of an unsuspecting Irish-American cop (Ford), who knows nothing of his true identity.
1. By the Sea (2015)
This is a high-profile drama set in the 1970s, and written and directed by Angelina Jolie. The project was a passionate entry from Jolie and it disappeared as soon as it released. The critics praised it as a beautiful but incredibly self-indulgent story about the European art-film homage. It was a massive box office flop and is now mostly remembered as a fascinating, melancholy footnote to the "Brangelina" era.
