10 Supporting Film Characters That Completely Stole The Spotlight

7. Jeffrey Goines (Brad Pitt) - Twelve Monkeys

Terry Gilliam's bizarre time travel movie chronicling the desperate and unhinged James Cole (Bruce Willis) journeying through time to find out the cause of a virus that has wiped out the majority of the world's population in the future was a disturbing, puzzling and enthralling experience, keeping us guessing with its ambiguous messages and leaving us nonplussed with an ending that was totally up for interpretation.

Brad Pitt, who has excelled when playing more offbeat roles throughout his career, plays an inmate at the mental hospital Cole is submitted too at the beginning of the film. From his introduction, Goines is wild, mad, but more human and realistic than his fellow inmates, rattling off a thought-provoking rant within his first few moments on screen and continuing the intensity and wild-eyed mania throughout his story.

With so much going on in the film, it's difficult to process individual scenes and characters, but Goines stands out a mile with a fantastically crazy attitude and a number of tics and phrases that really make you hunger for to see him more. The balance is hard to strike when playing somebody mentally ill, with actors often portraying crazy to the point it's obvious they are acting, but Pitt plays Goines with realism, making him a really likeable character of whom you miss when he's not on screen.