- 2009: Appeared in final film, "The Informers"; based on the Bret Easton Ellis novel (released posthumously)
- 2006: Starred in "10th and Wolf" an indie film based on a story by Bobby Moresco and Chazz Palminteri
- 2005: Cast in the psychological thriller "The Jacket"
- 2001: Acted alongside Jennifer Jason Leigh in the 1960s-set coming of age drama "Skipped Parts"
- 2001: Had leading role of a troubled Florida teen who turns on his abusive friend in Larry Clark's "Bully"; based on the 1993 murder of Bobby Kent and adapted from the book Bully: A True Story of High School Revenge
- 2001: Co-starred with Thora Birch and Scarlett Johansson in Terry Zwigoff's "Ghost World"
- 1998: Starred as a high school student obsessively fasinated with Nazism in Bryan Singer's "Apt Pupil"
- 1997: Played a teenage boy embroiled in the 1960s radio payola scandal in Guy Ferland's "Telling Lies in America"
- 1996: Portrayed Brad Pitt's character as a teenager in the gritty drama "Sleepers"
- 1995: Played Huckleberry Finn opposite Jonathan Taylor Thomas' Tom Sawyer in Disney's "Tom and Huck"
- 1995: Played the neighborhood toughguy who befriends a stigmatized HIV-positive youngster in "The Cure"
- 1994: Feature debut, a starring role as a young targeted witness, in Joel Schumacher's "The Client"
- Raised by his paternal grandmother in Knoxville, TN
- Acted in school productions sponsored by DARE; a program that deals with the dangers of drugs




