However, Brad Pitt does not play one of four boys who grow up and seek revenge against guards who abused them. This plotline is from the movie "The Shawshank Redemption", which stars Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman.
In "12 Monkeys", Brad Pitt plays a character named Jeffrey Goines, a mentally unstable individual who is a key figure in the film's plot about a time-traveling experiment.
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