Movies Starring Sean Penn
Crossing Over
Harrison Ford, Sean Penn, Ray Liotta, Ashley Judd, Lee Horsley, Summer Bishil, Cliff Curtis, Jaysha Patel, Alice Eve, Alice Braga, Merik Tadros, Melody Khazae, Justin Chon, Marshall Manesh, Tim Chiou
DIRECTOR:Crossing Over is a multi-character canvas about immigrants of different nationalities struggling to achieve legal status in Los Angeles. The film deals with the border, document fraud, the asylum and green card process, work-site enforcement, naturalization, the office of counter terrorism and the clash of cultures.
Milk
His life changed history. His courage changed lives.
Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Emile Hirsch, James Franco, Diego Luna, Brandon Boyce, Kelvin Yu, Lucas Grabeel, Alison Pill, Victor Garber, Denis O'Hare, Howard Rosenman, Stephen Spinella, Ted Jan Roberts, Tom Ammiano
DIRECTOR:Using flashbacks from a statement recorded late in life and archival footage for atmosphere, this film traces Harvey Milk's career from his 40th birthday to his death. He leaves the closet and New York, opens a camera shop that becomes the salon for San Francisco's growing gay community, and organizes gays' purchasing power to build political alliances. He runs for office with lover Scott Smith as his campaign manager. Victory finally comes on the same day Dan White wins in the city's conservative district. The rest of the film sketches Milk's relationship with White and the 1978 fight against a statewide initiative to bar gays and their supporters from public school jobs.
All the King's Men
Time brings all things to light.
Sean Penn, Jude Law, Anthony Hopkins, Kate Winslet, Mark Ruffalo, Patricia Clarkson, James Gandolfini, Jackie Earle Haley, Kathy Baker, Talia Balsam, Travis Champagne, Frederic Forrest, Paul Desmond, Kevin Dunn, Kevin McCarthy
DIRECTOR:In the 50's, in Louisiana, the smart populist, manipulative and wolf hick Willie Stark is elected governor with the support of the lower social classes. He joins a team composed of his bodyguard and friend Sugar Boy; the journalist from an aristocratic family Jack Burden; the lobbyist Tiny Duffy; and his mistress Sadie Burke, to face the opposition of the upper classes. When the influent Judge Irwin supports a group of politicians in their request of impeachment, Stark assigns Jack to find some dirtiness along the life of Irwin, leading to a tragedy in the end.
The Interpreter
The truth needs no translation.
Sean Penn, Catherine Keener, Nicole Kidman, Jesper Christensen, Yvan Attal, Earl Cameron, George Harris, Michael Wright, Clyde Kusatsu, Eric Keenleyside, Hugo Speer, Maz Jobrani, Yusuf Gatewood, Curtiss Cook, Byron Utley
DIRECTOR:Escalating events begin when U.N. interpreter Silvia Broome alleges that she has overheard a death threat against an African head of state, spoken in a rare dialect few people other than Silvia can understand. With the words "The Teacher will never leave this room alive," in an instant, Silvia's life is turned upside down as she becomes a hunted target of the killers. Placed under the protection of federal agent Tobin Keller, Silvia's world only grows more nightmarish. As Keller digs deeper into his eyewitnesses' past and her secretive world of global connections, the more suspicious he becomes that she herself might be involved in the conspiracy. With every step of the way, he finds more reasons to mistrust her. Is Sylvia a victim? A suspect? Or something else entirely? And can Tobin, coping with his own personal heartache, keep her safe? Though they must depend on one another, Silvia and Tobin couldn't be more different. Silvia's strengths are words, diplomacy and the subtleties of meaning, while Tobin is all about instinct, action and reading into the most primal human behaviors. Now, as the danger of a major assassination on U.S. soil grows and Silvia's life hangs in the balance, Silvia and Tobin play out a gripping dance of evasion and revelation that keeps them both guessing as they race to stop a terrifying international crisis before it's too late.
The Assassination of Richard Nixon
The mad story of a true man.
Don Cheadle, Naomi Watts, Sean Penn, Jack Thompson, Brad William Henke, Jared Dorrance, Nick Searcy, Michael Wincott, Mykelti Williamson, April Grace, Lily Knight, Jenna Milton, Mariah Massa, Eileen Ryan, Derek Greene
DIRECTOR:Niels Mueller
Fact-based story about a disturbed office furniture salesman (Sean Penn) who in 1972 concocted a plot to kill then-President Nixon by hi-jacking a plane to fly over the White House to drop a gas bomb. At the start of the movie, the man is separated from his wife and stressed in his job where he is made the butt of jokes and is an under-performer. Attempts to get his brother's old tire business resurrected with a black partner is rejected by the banks. When he is officially served with divorce papers, everything comes apart and Richard Nixon's broken promises comes to represent all the evils that have come down on him. A news story about a pilot that landed a helicopter on the White House lawn gives him the idea for his attack. Bolting onto a Baltimore plane, he attempts the hi-jacking.
It's All About Love
Sean Penn, Joaquin Phoenix, Claire Danes, Alun Armstrong, Harry Ditson, Douglas Henshall, Margo Martindale, Geoffrey Hutchings, Mark Strong, Thomas Bo Larsen, Teddy Kempner, Indra Ové, Georgi Staykov, Anna Wallander, Mariann Rudberg
DIRECTOR:Thomas Vinterberg
It's All About Love is the story of two lovers and their attempts to save their relationship in a near-future world on the brink of cosmic collapse. John, and world-famous ice skating star, Elena, are about to sign divorce papers when they realise that, in spite of everything happening around them, their love is worth fighting for. It's All About Love is a fresh take on modern love and future life as two lovers struggle in a conspiracy of epic proportions.
Mystic River
We bury our sins, we wash them clean.
Sean Penn, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden, Tim Robbins, Kevin Chapman, Laura Linney, Tom Guiry, Emmy Rossum, Spencer Treat Clark, Andrew Mackin, Adam Nelson, Robert Wahlberg, Jenny O'Hara, John Doman
DIRECTOR:Childhood friends Jimmy Markum (Penn), Sean Devine (Bacon) and Dave Boyle (Robbins) reunite following the death of Jimmy's oldest daughter, Katie (Rossum). Sean's a police detective on the case, gathering difficult and disturbing evidence; he's also tasked with handling Jimmy's rage and need for retribution.
21 Grams
Difference between dead and life
Benicio Del Toro, Naomi Watts, Sean Penn, Danny Huston, Carly Nahon, Claire Pakis, Nick Nichols, Charlotte Gainsbourg, John Rubinstein, Eddie Marsan, Loyd Keith Salter, Antef A. Harris, Melissa Leo, Marc Musso, Teresa Delgado
DIRECTOR:This is the story of three gentle persons: Paul Rivers (Penn) an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English emigré (Gainsbourg), Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife, happily married and mother of two little girls, and Jack Jordan (Del Toro), an ex-convict who has found in his Christian faith the strength to raise a family. They will be brought together by a terrible accident that will change their lives. By the final frame, none of them will be the same as they will learn harsh truths about love, faith, courage, desire and guilt, and how chance can change our worlds irretrievably, forever.
Dogtown and Z-Boys
A Film About The Birth Of The Now
In the mid-70s, surfers from Venice-Santa Monica who hung out at the Zephyr Surf Shop would skateboard when the surf was quiet. Over the course of a few heady years, riding on polyurethane wheels and copying the surfing moves of Larry Bertleman, the Z-Boys invent and polish their style on a hilly street near the shop, on the asphalt slopes ringing school playgrounds, and then in swimming pools empty during California's drought. The Z-Boys astound upright skateboarders at the 1975 championship in Del Mar. Within a year, the team splinters as some players join better financed pro teams. The film ends with profiles of the stars, Jay Adams, Stacy Peralta, and Tony Alva.
I Am Sam
love is all you need
Sean Penn, Richard Schiff, Brad Silverman, Joseph Rosenberg, Stanley DeSantis, Doug Hutchison, Ken Jenkins, Mason Lucero, Scott Paulin, Bobby Cooper, Michael B. Silver, Chase MacKenzie Bebak, Rafer Weigel, Brent Spiner, David Nathan Schwartz
Sam Dawson has the mental capacity of a 7-year-old. He works at a Starbucks and is obsessed with the Beatles. He has a daughter with a homeless woman; she abandons them as soon as they leave the hospital. He names his daughter Lucy Diamond (after the Beatles song), and raises her. But as she reaches age 7 herself, Sam's limitations start to become a problem at school; she's intentionally holding back to avoid looking smarter than him. The authorities take her away, and Sam shames high-priced lawyer Rita Harrison into taking his case pro bono. In the process, he teaches her a great deal about love, and whether it's really all you need.
The Weight of Water
Hell hath no fury...
Ciarán Hinds, Richard Donat, Sarah Polley, Ulrich Thomsen, Anders W. Berthelsen, Joseph Rutten, John Walf, Katrin Cartlidge, Vinessa Shaw, Adam Curry, Catherine McCormack, Sean Penn, Josh Lucas, Elizabeth Hurley, John Maclaren
DIRECTOR:A newspaper photographer, Jean, researches the lurid and sensational axe murder of two women in 1873 as an editorial tie-in with a brutal modern double murder. She discovers a cache of papers that appear to give an account of the murders by an eyewitness. The plot weaves between the narrative of the eyewitness and Jean's private struggle with jealousies and suspicions as her marriage teeters.
Sweet and Lowdown
Ben Duncan, Sean Penn, Samantha Morton, Uma Thurman, Brian Markinson, Anthony LaPaglia, James Urbaniak, Gretchen Mol, John Waters, Brad Garrett, Daniel Okrent, Dan Moran, Tony Darrow
A comedic biopic focused on the life of fictional jazz guitarist Emmett Ray. Ray was an irresponsible, free-spending, arrogant, obnoxious, alcohol-abusing, miserable human being, who was also arguably the best guitarist in the world. We follow Ray's life: bouts of getting drunk, his bizzare hobbies of shooting rats and watching passing trains, his dreams of fame and fortune, his strange obsession with the better-known guitarist Django Reinhardt, and of course, playing his beautiful music.
Hurlyburly
Sean Penn, Kevin Spacey, Robin Wright Penn, Chazz Palminteri, Garry Shandling, Anna Paquin, Meg Ryan, Gianna Ranaudo, David Fabrizio, Kenny Vance, Michaline Babich, Frank Somerville, Sharon Tay, Bob Jimenez
DIRECTOR:Anthony Drazan
Hurly-burly is an adaptation of David Rabe's well known play about the intersecting lives of several Hollywood players and wannabes who's personal lives threaten to veer into a catastrophe more interesting than anything they're peddling to the studios.
The Thin Red Line
Every man fights his own war.
George Clooney, Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, John Travolta, Ben Chaplin, John Cusack, Woody Harrelson, Adrien Brody, James Caviezel, John C. Reilly, Elias Koteas, Jared Leto, Dash Mihok, Tim Blake Nelson, Larry Romano, John Savage
DIRECTOR:Terrence Malick
In World War II, the outcome of the battle of Guadalcanal will strongly influence the Japanese's advance into the pacific. A group of young soldiers is brought in as a relief for the battle-weary Marine units. The exhausting fight for a key-positioned airfield that allows control over a 1000-mile radius puts the men of the Army Rifle company C-for-Charlie through hell. The horrors of war forms the soldiers into a tight-knit group, their emotions develop into bonds of love and even family. The reasons for this war get further away as the world for the men gets smaller and smaller until their fighting is for mere survival and the life of the other men with them.
U Turn
Sex. Murder. Betrayal. Everything that makes life worth living.
Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, Jennifer Lopez, Powers Boothe, Claire Danes, Joaquin Phoenix, Jon Voight, Billy Bob Thornton, Abraham Benrubi, Richard Rutowski, Aida Linares, Sean Stone, Ilia Volok, Valeri Nikolayev, Brent Briscoe
DIRECTOR:A man running from a mysterious past is trapped in a small desert town after his car breaks down. Everybody in this town seems to have totally lost their mind and Bobby can't wait to leave. But there is a problem: Bobby doesn't have the money to get his car back. So when an aging man offers him money to kill his young wife Bobby seriously thinks about it. However the gorgeous young woman casts some kind of spell on him and she asks him to get rid of her husband. But this time, the stakes are much higher...
The Game
Players Wanted.
Sean Penn, Michael Douglas, James Rebhorn, Carroll Baker, Peter Donat, Kimberly Russell, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Anna Katarina, Caroline Barclay, Harrison Young, Deborah Kara Unger, Charles Martinet, Scott Hunter McGuire, Florentine Mocanu, Elizabeth Dennehy, Joe Frank, James Brooks, Daniel Schorr, John Aprea
DIRECTOR:Nicholas Van Orton is a very wealthy San Francisco banker, but he is an absolute loner, even spending his birthday alone. In the year of his 48th birthday (the age his father committed suicide) his brother Conrad, who has gone long ago and surrendered to addictions of all kinds, suddenly returns and gives Nicholas a card giving him entry to unusual entertainment provided by something called Consumer Recreation Services (CRS). Giving up to curiosity, Nicholas visits CRS and all kinds of weird and bad things start to happen to him.
Carlito's Way
Al Pacino, Sean Penn, Penelope Ann Miller, John Leguizamo, Ingrid Rogers, Luis Guzmán, James Rebhorn, Joseph Siravo, Viggo Mortensen, Richard Foronjy, Jorge Porcel, Frank Minucci, Adrian Pasdar, John Ortiz, Ángel Salazar
DIRECTOR:Carlito Brigante is released from jail after serving five years of a much longer stretch. He vows to go straight and to live life as a fine, upstanding citizen. He even rekindles a romance with his ex-lover. However, Carlito's associates cannot seem to leave him in peace...his nephew involves him a pool-room gunfight, his lawyer asks him for "favours" which spiral out of control, and even an old friend (now a wheelchair bound paraplegic) tries to get him into trouble with the law. Carlito decides to make a run for Florida and the promise of a new life, but has one final dramatic escape to make from some hoods who believe (wrongly) that he was behind the murder of their boss.
We're No Angels
The con is on.
Robert De Niro, Sean Penn, Hoyt Axton, Bill Murdoch, Ray McAnally, James Russo, Wallace Shawn, John C. Reilly, Jay Brazeau, Ken Buhay, Frank C. Turner, Matthew Walker, Sean Hoy, Lloyd Berry
A couple of escaped convicts on the run find refuge with the Church when they are mistaken for two priests. The two are keen to flee but are unable to do so without the help of Molly.
Casualties of War
Even in war... murder is murder.
Michael J. Fox, Sean Penn, Don Harvey, John C. Reilly, John Leguizamo, Thuy Thu Le, Erik King, Jack Gwaltney, Ving Rhames, Dan Martin, Dale Dye, Steve Larson, John Linton, Vyto Ruginis, Al Shannon
DIRECTOR:During the Vietnam war, a girl is taken from her village by five American soldiers. Four of the soldiers rape her, but the fifth refuses. The young girl is killed. The fifth soldier is determined that justice will be done. The film is more about the realities of war, rather than this single event.
Colors
70,000 gang members. One million guns. Two cops.
Sean Penn, Robert Duvall, Maria Conchita Alonso, Randy Brooks, Grand L. Bush, Don Cheadle, Gerardo Mejía, Glenn Plummer, Rudy Ramos, Sy Richardson, Trinidad Silva, Charles Walker, Damon Wayans, Fred Asparagus, Sherman Augustus
DIRECTOR:A confident young cop is shown the ropes by a veteran partner in the dangerous gang-controlled barrios of L.A. about to explode in violence in this look at the gang culture enforced by the colors that members wear.
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