Brad Pitt 1991 film "Across the Tracks"; Pitt portrayed Joe Maloney, a high school runner with a criminal brother, played by Rick Schroder. After years of supporting roles in film and frequent television guest appearances, Pitt attracted wider recognition in his supporting role in Ridley Scott's 1991 road film "Thelma & Louise". He played J.D., a small-time criminal who befriends Thelma (Geena Davis). His love scene with Davis has been cited as the event that defined Pitt as a sex symbol. After "Thelma & Louise", Pitt starred in the 1991 film "Johnny Suede", a low-budget picture about an aspiring rock star, and
The Living End (film) Jean-Luc Godard and Andy Warhol. "The Living End", she concluded, "is mostly annoying". "Rolling Stone"'s Peter Travers found "The Living End" a "savagely funny, sexy and grieving cry" made more heart-rending by "Hollywood's gutless fear of AIDS movies". In a letter (09/25/92) to playwright Robert Patrick, Quentin Crisp called the film "dreadful." The Living End (film) The Living End is a 1992 American comedy-drama film by Gregg Araki. Described by some critics as a "gay "Thelma and Louise"," the film is an early entry in the New Queer Cinema genre. "The Living End" was nominated for a Grand Jury Prize