Top Brad Pitt Movies
Very few A-list actors can lay claim to International world status. However, the soon to be 60-year old Brad Pitt, is in that rare group. From gracing the screen in Interview with The Vampire, there’s no movie genre in the past 30 years that Brad Pitt hasn’t conquered. With over 60 films to his credit, it’s time to show Brad Pitt some love with a short list of his top memories.
“Ad Astra” (2019)
Ad Astra is a carefully crafted story about a guy who goes on a journey and is forced to contend with what he finds along the way. The film takes place in the 22nd century, and Pitt plays Roy McBride, an astronaut who travels to outer space in search his missing father, who had gone there 30 years before him. Roy’s dad was pursuing extraterrestrials that posed a threat to Earth.
Determined to follow up on his father, Roy encounters many galactic dangers as he comes to terms with his true feelings about his father. Throughout the film, Pitt provides a voice-over where you can hear the pain and haunting in his voice.
“Burn After Reading” (2008)
Pitt finally joins a Cohen brother film in the dark comedy, “Burn After Reading.” Loaded with star film, the offbeat comedy is loaded with A-list start power with Frances McDormand and reunites George Clooney with Brad Pitt. Moviegoers were anxious to see “Burn After Reading” for Clooney and Pitt to rekindle their amazing screen chemistry trilogy that had Pitt and Clooney robbing the biggest museums and casinos near me, you, and countless Vegas visitors with comedic finesse.
Pitt is surprisingly sweet, happily skipping through life with a childlike wonder that is in total contrast to the actual events of the movie. After finding a CD-ROM containing supposedly leaked CIA documents, Pitt and McDormand’s characters get swept up in a whirlwind of love triangles, murder, and just plain stupidity.
“Interview with a Vampire” (1994)
One of Pitt’s early roles, this time he takes on the vampire theme from Anne Rice’s epic novel. Get used to seeing Pitt wearing a ponytail throughout the film with his white suit. Pitt plays Louis de Pointe du Lac as he narrates his life as a man, as well as a vampire, to an eager reporter played by Christian Slater.
Told in flashback from the present to the 1700s, the movie is about Louis’ journey as a grieving man who lost his infant child and wife during labor. As Louis wallows in depression, he’s attacked by Tom Cruise’s Lestat de Lioncourt, a vampire recently transplanted from Paris. Louis eventually caves to Lestat’s invitation of giving up the eternal life by drinking the older man’s blood.
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (2008)
2008 was one of Pitt’s best years with the holiday blockbuster film, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.” The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is the third film Pitt made with David Fincher. Based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story, fans follow Pitt as Benjamin Button, who was born old, but gradually becomes younger to the point of infancy. The story takes place in 1918, so as Benjamin ages backwards, we get historical views of the time as we dive into Button’s personal and romantic life.
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’ also depicts the crafty CGI of the time and prosthetic makeup. Not only did Pitt play the same character at different ages, but he, at each of those ages, was physically rendered in inverse proportion to his age.
“Inglorious Bastards” (2009)
In Quentin Tarantino’s brazen World War II remake, Pitt co-leads a posse of Jewish American soldiers on a mission through German-occupied France. The goal is clear. Pitt hunts down Nazis, cracking jokes along the way. As Lt. Aldo Raine, Pitt plays the straight-talking commander who is affectionately known as “Aldo the Apache.”
He harbors an obvious contempt for the Third Reich, frequently dropping sauerkraut-and-schnitzel smack talk before cutting a Swastika into the brow of a particular Nazi trooper. The most fun image of Lieutenant Raine, however, comes in the film’s final act, when the all-American son of the South dusts off a white tuxedo.
“Meet Joe Black” (1998)
This time, Pitt plays the role of death. Arriving among the living as “Joe Black,” a soon-to-be, suave Grim Reaper. His mission is to guide William Parrish to the afterlife, played by Anthony Hopkins. However, Joe Black becomes infatuated with Parrish’s daughter at a lavish diner. Not long after, a tragic accident results in the young man’s soul being swapped with the spirit of Death.
New to his human form, death develops an obsession with peanut butter. He’s awestruck by the wheels on an office chair with unexpected humor.
“A River Runs Through It” (1992)
Set in Montana, Pitt stars as Paul Maclean, a reverend’s son and the younger brother of scholar Norman, played by Craig Sheffer. Directed by the late Robert Redford, “A River Runs Through It” showcases the natural beauty of Montana as we take in the complex family saga.
Paul, a young journalist and the beloved son of a family, struggles with alcoholism, a vice that finds its way into his day-to-day, helpless to his brother’s watch as he self-implodes in the dangerous scenarios his little brother so regularly places himself in. Pitt’s character may be successful, but he isn’t afraid to go to jail, throw his hands, or even go fly fishing.