After "Roseanne" ended, Galecki had small roles in a string of films, including the 1997 summer slasher film "I Know What You Did Last Summer" (as the killer's first victim), "Bean" (1997), "The Opposite of Sex" (1998), "Bounce" (2000) and "Vanilla Sky" (2001). He had larger roles in the 1997 film "Suicide Kings" and the 2003 film "Bookies", a comedy thriller film about four college students. Galecki appeared as a golfer in a 2005 episode of "My Name Is Earl" entitled "Stole Beer from a Golfer".