Not all supporting movie characters are equal. Some, like Jacob Black from “Twilight,” make us want to gouge our own eyes out. But others are so amazing that they steal every scene they’re in. And they make us wish Hollywood would just go ahead and give them their own film. Because, in all honesty, we’d much rather watch some of these characters on screen for two and a half hours than the actual stars they’re playing sidekick to. So here are the best supporting characters who deserve their own movies.
Brooks Hatlen (“The Shawshank Redemption”)
Pretty much any character in “The Shawshank Redemption” could be the star off their own film, and we would watch the shit out of every single one of them. But Brooks, the old man who struggles with life outside of Shawshank, has a story that’s especially heart wrenching. How did he reach that point? We’d love to know.