Showing posts with label Starring: Sean Penn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Starring: Sean Penn. Show all posts

The Tree of Life (2011)

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An amazing film directed by Terence Malick. On one level it’s a story of an American family and how they deal with a bereavement. But the fi...

Carlito’s Way (1993)

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Superb crime thriller. Al Pacino plays Carlito Brigante, a Puerto Rican ex-con who is trying to make a fresh start. But his post-prison effo...

21 Grams (2003)

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Powerful and disturbing drama directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and starring Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Benicio Del Toro, Charlotte Gains...

Milk (2008)

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Biopic of Harvey Milk, who campaigned for gay rights in California until his assassination in 1978.  Sean Penn is superb in the main role, w...

Gangster Squad (2013)

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Gangster thriller set in Los Angeles in 1949.   Sean Penn is Mickey Cohen, a brutal mobster. Sergeant John O'Mara (Josh Brolin) is a Wor...

Casualties of War (1989)

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Directed by Brian De Palma, this tells the story of an American soldier in the Vietnam War ( Michael J. Fox ) who reports the other member...

The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004)

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Based on a true story, this is a gripping and desperately sad drama starring Sean Penn . He plays Samuel Bicke, a furniture salesman who is ...

The Interpreter (2005)

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An interpreter at the United Nations ( Nicole Kidman ) overhears a conversation that suggests the leader of an African state is to be assass...

Mystic River (2003)

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Compelling drama directed by Clint Eastwood .  Three Boston -based childhood friends are reunited in unhappy circumstances. They discover ho...

Fair Game (2010)

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Superb thriller. Adapted from the memoirs of the two protagonists, it tells the story of CIA operative Valerie Plane and her diplomat husba...

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)

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Walter Mitty (Ben Stiller) works at Life magazine as a “negative assets manager”. His world is humdrum but he daydreams incredible and hero...

Thin Red Line (1998)

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Ensemble film about WWII adapted from the 1962 James Jones novel. It presents multiple narrative perspectives. Unlike The Longest Day , it...