The late ’90s and early 2000s were the primetime of romantic comedies, and a lot of them starred the biggest heartthrob of the time, Freddie Prinze Jr. One of these was 2001’s Summer Catch, a romantic-comedy based on young baseball prospects who descend on the town of Cape Cod to play for the Chatham Athletics and hopefully get scouted for the big leagues. It is the perfect summer rom-com with baseball, drama, and of course love, and also hosts a huge cast of the hottest young acting talents of the 2000s, with the likes if Freddie Prinze Jr., Jessica Biel and Matthew Lillard. Some of the cast went on to have red-hot careers while others seem to have faded; check out how much they are all worth all these years later!
14. Brittany Murphy
Estimated Net Worth: $10 Million. Brittany Murphy was one of the brightest and most sought after young actresses before her untimely death in December 2009 at the age of 32. At the time of her death, Murphy had amassed a net worth of $10 million after starting her career in the early ’90s on shows such as Murphy Brown, Drexell’s Class, Almost Home and Sister, Sister among others. Murphy gained wider recognition after she co-starred in 1995’s Clueless as Tai which led to her numerous leading film roles including Freeway, Drive, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Girl, Interrupted, Riding in Cars with Boys and, of course, Summer Catch. She then hit new levels of stardom after starring alongside Eminem in 8 Mile, and went on to star in Just Married, Uptown Girls, and Little Black Book. Murphy also took on different voice acting roles in Happy Feet and from 1997-2009 voicing several characters for King of the Hill. Following her death, her mother and widowed husband established the Brittany Murphy Foundation to fund children’s arts education and support the USO cancer research.
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