Brad Renfro
Also Known As: Brad Barron Renfro
Biography: Brad Barron Renfro (July 25, 1982 – January 15, 2008) was an American actor. was an American actor born on July 25, 1982 in Knoxville, Tennessee, to Angela Denise McCrory and Mark Renfro, a factory worker. He was discovered at age 10 by director Joel Schumacher and made his film debut cast in the lead role of the motion picture The Client (1994), which starred Susan Sarandon and Tommy Lee Jones. Although this would be his zenith, he went on to appear in other films, including The Cure (1995), Tom and Huck (1995), Sleepers (1996), and Apt Pupil (1998). He went on to star in a total of 21 feature films, several short films, and two television episodes during his career. Renfro won The Hollywood Reporter's Young Star Award in 1995 and was nominated as one of People magazine's "Top 30 Under 30," though addiction problems in his teens and early 20s led to several police arrests and much of his later career was marred by a pattern of substance abuse which hampered his career. He died from a heroin overdose on January 15, 2008, at the young age of 25.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
Birthday: July 25, 1982
Deathday: January 15, 2008
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Gender: Male
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Ghost World
Overview: Two quirky, cynical teenaged girls try to figure out what to do with their lives after high school graduation. After they play a prank on an eccentric, middle aged record collector, one of them befriends him, which causes a rift in the girls’ friendship.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-07-20
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The Client
Overview: A street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, whose current client is Barry 'The Blade' Muldano, a Mafia hit-man. Before Jerome shoots himself, he tells Mark where the body of a Senator is buried. Clifford shoots himself and Mark is found at the scene, and both the FBI and the Mafia quickly realize that Mark probably knows more than he says.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-07-20
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Tart
Overview: A student will do anything to become part of the "in-crowd" at the exclusive school she attends in New York.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-23
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The Cure
Overview: Erik, a loner, finds a friend in Dexter, an eleven-year-old boy with AIDS. They vow to find a cure for AIDS together and save Dexter's life in an eventful summer.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-21
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Apt Pupil
Overview: One day in 1984, Todd Bowden, a brilliant high school boy fascinated by the history of Nazism, stumbles across an old man whose appearance resembles that of Kurt Dussander, a wanted Nazi war criminal. A month later, Todd decides to knock on his door.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-23
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Bully
Overview: This is the true story of Bobby Kent, a teen bully in the suburban town of Hollywood, Florida. Eventually, his best friend and girlfriend team up with the various other kids that are tired of getting beat up by him. Included in that group are the overweight Lisa Connelly. Together, seven teenagers lure Bobby out, deep into the swamp, promising him sex and drugs and when they get there, they beat him to death with baseball bats....
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-15
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10th & Wolf
Overview: A former street thug returns to his Philadelphia home after a stint in the military. Back on his home turf, he once again finds himself tangling with the mob boss who was instrumental in his going off to be a soldier.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-02-19
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Deuces Wild
Overview: 1950s New York City. A bad and bloody gang war is about to erupt on the dysfunctional streets of Brooklyn. The Deuces at war with the vicious Vipers. Scott Kalvert directs this tale of lust, drugs, mayhem and madness during one hot summer on the streets of New York.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-03
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The Jacket
Overview: A military veteran goes on a journey into the future, where he can foresee his death and is left with questions that could save his life and those he loves.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Mystery Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-03-04
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Skipped Parts
Overview: A woman and her son must leave a small South Carolina town because of her wild behavior.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-06
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Telling Lies in America
Overview: A 17-year-old boy becomes friends with Billy Magic, the radio DJ he idolizes, and eventually slips into the payola and corruption of the entertainment world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-08-02
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Tom and Huck
Overview: A mischievous young boy, Tom Sawyer, witnesses a murder by the deadly Injun Joe. Tom becomes friends with Huckleberry Finn, a boy with no future and no family. Tom has to choose between honoring a friendship or honoring an oath because the town alcoholic is accused of the murder. Tom and Huck go through several adventures trying to retrieve evidence.
Genres: Family Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-22
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The Informers
Overview: A collection of intersecting short stories set in early 1980s Los Angeles, depicts a week in the lives of an assortment of socially alienated, mainly well-off characters who numb their sense of emptiness with casual sex, violence, and drugs.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-11-05
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Hollywood Flies
Overview: While on a road trip, a man and his sister pick up two hitchhikers (Brad Renfro, Vinnie Jones) on the run for murder and armed robbery.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-06-28
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The Job
Overview: CJ is a sexy, cold-blooded assassin who wants to quit the business. She agrees to carry out one last hit, but for the first time in her career as an assassin, she is unable to finish the job.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-16
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Mummy an' the Armadillo
Overview: In the middle of nowhere sits the Armadillo Café. The once popular, but now desolate, café is run by a troubled, booze-addled mother (Betty Buckley) and her disturbed family (Lori Heuring, Brad Renfro, Jonathon Schaech). Their dark secrets are threatened when Sarah (Clare Kramer) arrives, seeking answers to her past. Turmoil reigns and emotions boil over as the horrifying truth unravels and Sarah barely escapes with her life.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-29
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Sleepers
Overview: Two gangsters seek revenge on the state jail worker who during their stay at a youth prison sexually abused them. A sensational court hearing takes place to charge him for the crimes.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-18
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American Girl
Overview: A pregnant teenager is determined to leave her trailer park home with the hope of living a happy family life.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-10
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Happy Campers
Overview: Chaos and rampant hormones reign when teenage counselors are left in charge during their summer-camp director's absence.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-21
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The Theory of the Leisure Class
Overview: A group of kids on a field trip shockingly discover the bodies of missing children. Their alarming discovery leads to a small western town where the mystery of the slain children's disappearance has created an environment of suspicion and distrust. A curious reporter from the city arrives in town and bribes a bar owner to divulge everything she knows. Gradually, the pieces of this disturbing puzzle; deception, adultery and secret bonds, start falling into place. They hold the key to the mystery of the murdered children.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-07-06
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Collector
Overview: Justin Sayer (Brad Renfro) suffers from a mental illness which causes vivid hallucinations. The voices in his head have forced him to isolate himself from the world and from his two year old son. After several unsuccessful attempts by visiting therapists to cure him, Justin attempts to hide his illness from a new therapist. But this therapist is unlike the others.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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The Car Kid
Overview: Two unlikely heroes become connected through their love of music, and on the day they meet, their lives are changed forever.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-11
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2 Little, 2 Late
Overview: A flurry of stories about different students at a local high school after racial tensions erupt.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-01
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Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
Overview: For decades, Freddy Krueger has slashed his way through the dreams of countless youngsters, scaring up over half a billion dollars at the box office across eight terrifying, spectacular films.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-05-04
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