Counting down Brad Pitt's 20 best performances

In a movie dominated by outstanding and unforgettable supporting roles (almost cameos, really) few have endured like Brad Pitt’s Floyd, the slacker stoner roommate to Michael Rapaport’s Dick Ritchie, . The role in and of itself is hilarious: Floyd is the type of guy everyone knows, and not in a good way. But there’s a lovability that comes with the know-it-all grungy stoner who does nothing but wander about and lay in a haze of weed smoke, and Pitt turns this role into a special one. When the film premiered in 1993, Pitt was dipping his toes into odder roles to prove he was more than just a sex symbol (after Johnny Suede and Kalifornia and before Seven and 12 Monkeys). While the decidedly dressed-down role allowed Pitt some forever quotable lines and props, the killer line delivery comes when Floyd, tiring of a smug gangster’s (James Gandolfini) line of questioning, sneaks in the line, “condescend me, man, I’ll fucking kill ya.” It’s just a great, teeny role from one of the best character actors ever. [Don Lewis]