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Sean Penn
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Sean Penn - filmography
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What Just Happened?
(2008)
Starring: Robert De Niro, Sean Penn, John Turturro
Director: Barry Levinson
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"What Just Happened?" about two nail-biting, back-stabbing, roller-coaster weeks in the world of a middle-aged Hollywood producer--as he tries to juggle an actual life with an outrageous series of crises in his day job. This is the tale of a man besieged by people who want him all to be sorts of ...
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Into The Wild - HD DVD Version
(2007)
Starring: Catherine Keener, Jena Malone, William Hurt
Director: Sean Penn
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INTO THE WILD combines the directorial talent of Sean Penn with Jon Krakauer's bestselling book about a young man (Emile Hirsch) who gives up all he has to live in Alaska. This adventure also stars Academy Award winners William Hurt and Marcia Gay Harden, as well as Catherine Keener and Vince Vaughn.
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Into the Wild
on DVD (2007)
Starring: Emile Hirsch, Marcia Gay Harden, William Hurt
Director: Sean Penn
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After graduating from Emory University, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters that shape his life.
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All The King's Men - BLU-RAY Version
(2006)
Starring: Sean Penn, Jude Law, Kate Winslet
Director: Steven Zaillian
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Louisiana politician Willie Stark starts out as a man of the people, proud to be a hick, wanting to make a difference to the struggling families in his community. But the smell of power leads to back-room corruption, lies, and betrayal. Based on the Robert Penn Warren novel. The life of populist ...
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All The King's Men
on DVD (2006)
Starring: Sean Penn, Jude Law, Kate Winslet
Director: Steven Zaillian
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Louisiana politician Willie Stark starts out as a man of the people, proud to be a hick, wanting to make a difference to the struggling families in his community. But the smell of power leads to back-room corruption, lies, and betrayal. Based on the Robert Penn Warren novel. The life of populist ...
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21 Grams
on DVD (2004)
Starring: Sean Penn, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Benicio Del Toro
Director: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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Paul (Sean Penn) has less than a month to live, he's on the waiting list for a heart transplant, and his wife (Charlotte Gainsbourg) is determined to get pregnant with his child before it's too late. Meanwhile, Cristina (Naomi Watts) is a happy mother with a loving husband and two daughters but she ...
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The Assassination Of Richard Nixon
on DVD (2004)
Starring: Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Don Cheadle
Director: Niels Mueller
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In 1974, one man made an appointment with history. His story is gripping, shocking, unbelievable, and true. Samuel J. Bicke is a salesman whose overly idealistic midset is hopelessly at odds with the life that surrounds him. He desperately clings to his estranged wife and children, a job that ...
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Mystic River
on DVD (2003)
Starring: Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon
Director: Clint Eastwood
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Three friends, Jimmy, Sean and Dave, reunite after the death of Jimmy's daughter. Sean is a detective assigned to the case and has to deal with Jimmy's rages.
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It's All About Love
on DVD (2003)
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Claire Danes, Sean Penn
Director: Thomas Vinterberg
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A beautiful film set in the future, a tale of impending divorce for a young couple who manage to rediscover their love. Joaquin Phoenix (GLADIATOR) and Claire Danes (ROMEO+JULIET) play John and Elena who agree to meet up one last time to finalise their divorce. He must meet his world-famous figure-...
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Dogtown And Z-Boys
on DVD (2001)
Starring: Sean Penn
Director: Stacy Peralta
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In the late 1960s, a group of burnt out teenagers from broken homes ambled together and began to surf along Venice, California's Pacific Ocean Park pier, a ghostly shell of a former amusement park nicknamed "Dogtown." United by their attention to style and willingness to take risks, this group of ...
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I Am Sam
on DVD (2001)
Starring: Michelle Pfeiffer, Sean Penn, Laura Dern
Director: Jessie Nelson
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Actor Sean Penn displays another facet of his versatility as the title character of this inspirational tearjerker--a mentally handicapped father fighting for custody of his young daughter (Dakota Fanning). The child welfare board of his native Santa Monica has taken her from him, worried that at ...
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The Pledge
on DVD (2001)
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Helen Mirren, Michael O'Keefe
Director: Sean Penn
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Director Sean Penn's (THE INDIAN RUNNER, THE CROSSING GUARD) third film features Jack Nicholson as Jerry Black, a retired detective whose final case ultimately causes his slow descent into madness. In the midst of his retirement party, Black decides to join Detective Stan Krolak (Aaron Eckhart) on ...
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Before Night Falls
on DVD (2000)
Starring: Javier Bardem, Olivier Martinez, Andrea Di Stefano
Director: Julian Schnabel
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The life of Reinaldo Arenas, an exiled Cuban homosexual writer, is chronicled in an adaptation of his memoir BEFORE NIGHT FALLS, directed by Julian Schnabel (BASQUIAT). Javier Bardem (in an Oscar-nominated performance) portrays Arenas as he journeys from poverty to university to the sexual ...
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The Weight Of Water
on DVD (2000)
Starring: Catherine McCormack, Sarah Polley, Sean Penn
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
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Two stories unravel simultaneously in this dark and suspenseful film. The first story, set in the present day, concerns a photographer, Jean (Catherine McCormack). She is working on an article for a magazine about a pair of bloody murders that happened 200 years before on the Isle of Shoals, just ...
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Up at the Villa
(2000)
Starring: Kristin Scott Thomas, Sean Penn, Anne Bancroft
Director: Philip Haas
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An impoverished English widow, on vacation near Florence, considers the marriage proposal of an aging British aristocrat who is governor of Bengal. She takes pity on a refugee, and gets in harm's way with an American playboy. After a good deed results in tragedy, she must choose between ...
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Sweet And Lowdown
on DVD (1999)
Starring: Sean Penn, Samantha Morton, Uma Thurman
Director: Woody Allen
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Allen's pseudo-biopic about 1930's jazz guitarist Emmet Ray (Penn) is a personal tribute by the director to a period of musical history that has inspired and influenced him greatly. Penn immerses himself into the role of the boozing, womanizing Ray with his usual intensity (this time, with a comic ...
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Being John Malkovich
on DVD (1999)
Starring: John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener
Director: Spike Jonze
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Original is far too understated a term to describe this picture, brought to you by the surreal, twisted minds of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and actor-director Spike Jonze. The story concerns a puppeteer, Craig Schwartz (John Cusack), who discovers his office has a secret portal that leads ...
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Hurlyburly
(1998)
Starring: Sean Penn, Kevin Spacey, Anna Paquin
Director: Anthony Drazan
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Unfortunately this title is currently unavailable for rental. This may be due to the title being deleted or on a limited release. We will continue to rent this title as soon as stock becomes available.
A relentless black comedy with an amazing ensemble of actors. Based on a play ...
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The Thin Red Line
on DVD (1998)
Starring: Sean Penn, Adrien Brody, Jim Caviezel
Director: Terrence Malick
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Terrence Malick returns to Hollywood after a two-decade hiatus with this adaptation of the classic WWII novel by James Jones. The story follows the efforts of an army platoon to capture the Japanese-controlled island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific Ocean, which will have a major effect on the outcome ...
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Game, The - HD DVD Version
(1997)
Starring: Michael Douglas, Sean Penn, Deborah Unger
Director: David Fincher
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For the follow-up to his dark crime thriller SEVEN, director David Fincher decided to remain in a film noir vein. The result is THE GAME, a fast-paced cinematic roller-coaster ride that stars Michael Douglas as Nicholas Van Orton, a joyless San Francisco investment banker who receives an unusual ...
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She's So Lovely
on DVD (1997)
Starring: Sean Penn, John Travolta, Robin Wright Penn
Director: Nick Cassavetes
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Married mom Maureen and her doting husband, Joey, find their lives of domestic tranquillity rent asunder by the resurgence of Maureen's first husband, Eddie, an alcoholic so violent and obsessive that Maureen had him committed. But she's nonetheless torn between her present state of stability and ...
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U-Turn
on DVD (1997)
Starring: Sean Penn, Jennifer Lopez, Nick Nolte
Director: Oliver Stone
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Oliver Stone shelved his social conscience while making this vicious nest-of-vipers noir. Sean Penn stars as Bobby Cooper, a gambler on the run who is forced to lay up in a desolate Arizona whistlestop with car trouble. Desperate and broke, he receives an offer from the middle-aged Jake McKenna (...
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The Game
on DVD (1997)
Starring: Michael Douglas, Sean Penn, Deborah Unger
Director: David Fincher
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For the follow-up to his dark crime thriller SEVEN, director David Fincher decided to remain in a film noir vein. The result is THE GAME, a fast-paced cinematic roller-coaster ride that stars Michael Douglas as Nicholas Van Orton, a joyless San Francisco investment banker who receives an unusual ...
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The Crossing Guard
on DVD (1996)
Starring: Jack Nicholson, David Morse, Robin Wright
Director: Sean Penn
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After a hit-and-run takes the life of a man's daughter, breaking his heart and destroying his marriage, he plots revenge on the man who did it. When the driver is released from prison six years later, the two men find themselves on a fateful collision course. Penned by Penn, in a nod to French New ...
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Dead Man Walking
on DVD (1995)
Starring: Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn, Robert Prosky
Director: Tim Robbins
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This acclaimed film traces the relationship between a death-row inmate and the local nun to whom he turns for spiritual guidance in the days leading up to his scheduled execution. Matthew Poncelet (Sean Penn) has been convicted of the rape and murder of two young lovers and is awaiting execution. ...
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Carlito's Way - HD DVD Version
(1993)
Starring: Al Pacino, Sean Penn, Penelope Ann Miller
Director: Brian De Palma
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Notorious Puerto Rican heroin dealer Carlito Brigante (Al Pacino) is released from jail on a technicality thanks to the manipulations of his sleazy lawyer buddy (Sean Penn). All he wants is to keep his nose clean and earn enough money to start a business in the Bahamas--and maybe rekindle romance ...
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Carlito's Way
on DVD (1993)
Starring: Al Pacino, Sean Penn, Penelope Ann Miller
Director: Brian De Palma
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Notorious Puerto Rican heroin dealer Carlito Brigante (Al Pacino) is released from jail on a technicality thanks to the manipulations of his sleazy lawyer buddy (Sean Penn). All he wants is to keep his nose clean and earn enough money to start a business in the Bahamas--and maybe rekindle romance ...
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The Indian Runner
on DVD (1991)
Starring: David Morse, Viggo Mortensen, Charles Bronson
Director: Sean Penn
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Inspired by the song "Highway Patrolman" by rock legend Bruce Springsteen, this is a provocative story about two brothers in 1968. One is a cop with a family, the other lives his life breaking the laws. A story that enriches the senses and touches the heart.
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State Of Grace
on DVD (1990)
Starring: Sean Penn, Ed Harris, Gary Oldman
Director: Phil Joanou
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Terry Noonan returns to New York's Hell Kitchen after twelve years to find that his old neighbourhood of seedy bars and Irish-American mobsters has been taken over by Yuppies hell-bent on gentrification. Terry's childhood buddies, ruthless gang leader Frankie Flannery and his psychotic brother ...
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We're No Angels
(1989)
Starring: Sean Penn, Robert De Niro
Director: Neil Jordan
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Two escaped convicts on the run (Robert De Niro and Sean Penn) try to outsmart the law by masquerading as priests. Their goal is to find a way into Canada before they are discovered. The plan is complicated, however, when one of them falls in love with a hot-tempered woman (Demi Moore) with some ...
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Casualties Of War
on DVD (1989)
Starring: Michael J. Fox, Sean Penn, Dan Harvey
Director: Brian De Palma
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After being denied the chance to go to a nearby village to visit a prostitute before starting a reconnaissance mission, a tough, embittered American sergeant (Sean Penn) involves the four men of his patrol in the kidnapping of a young Vietnamese woman. The impending gang rape and murder of the ...
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One of the five or ten best war films ever made 24 August 2004
...'s voice-over in the opening act hints at the pain and anguish that is to come; Sean Penn is brilliant as the sullen and thoughtful Sgt. Welsh; Jim Caviezel completely e...
19 March 2004
