Sean Penn
Flag Day (2021)
Flag Day is a 2021 American drama film directed by and starring Sean Penn. His daughter Dylan Penn co-stars. It premiered in competition at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. It was released on August 20, 2021, by United Artists Releasing. The film has received mixed reviews from critics.
Starring: Cooper Hoffman•Luis Guzman•Carroll Baker•Jack Warden•Richard Nixon•George C. Scott
Licorice Pizza (2021)
Licorice Pizza is a 2021 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. It stars Alana Haim and Cooper Hoffman in their film debuts, alongside an ensemble supporting cast including Sean Penn, Tom Waits, Bradley Cooper, and Benny Safdie. Set in 1973, the film follows the development of a young couple's relationship.
Starring: Cooper Hoffman•Harry Dean Stanton•Donald Sutherland•Reni Santoni•Jon Voight•Martin Sheen
The Professor and the Madman (2019)
The Professor and the Madman is a 2019 biographical drama film directed by Farhad Safinia, from a screenplay by Safinia and Todd Komarnicki based on the 1998 book The Surgeon of Crowthorne by Simon Winchester. It stars Mel Gibson, Sean Penn, Natalie Dormer, Eddie Marsan, Jennifer Ehle, Jeremy Irvine, David O'Hara, Ioan Gruffudd, Stephen Dillane, an...
Starring: Robert De Niro•Cooper Hoffman•Michael Douglas•Susan Sarandon•Christopher Walken•Al Pacino•Ronny Cox•Richard Nixon•Victor Garber
The Angry Birds Movie (2016)
The Angry Birds Movie is a 2016 computer-animated comedy film based on Rovio Entertainment's video game series of the same name, co-produced by Columbia Pictures and Rovio Animation, and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing. The film was directed by Clay Kaytis and Fergal Reilly, from a screenplay written by Jon Vitti, based on a story by Mikael ...
Starring: Cooper Hoffman•Jackie Earle Haley•Nick Nolte•John Travolta•Bruce McGill•Kevin Bacon•Tom Berenger
The Gunman (2015)
The Gunman is a 2015 action thriller film directed by Pierre Morel and written by Don Macpherson, Pete Travis and Sean Penn, based on the novel The Prone Gunman by Jean-Patrick Manchette. It stars Penn along with Javier Bardem, Idris Elba, Mark Rylance, Jasmine Trinca and Ray Winstone. The film is about Jim Terrier (Penn), a mercenary who assassina...
Starring: Ed Harris•Cooper Hoffman•Mel Gibson•Michael J. Fox•Timothy Hutton•Elizabeth McGovern•Sam Shepard
Gangster Squad (2013)
Gangster Squad is a 2013 American action crime thriller film directed by Ruben Fleischer, written by Will Beall, based on the non-fiction book by Paul Lieberman, and starring Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Nick Nolte, Emma Stone, Anthony Mackie, Giovanni Ribisi, Robert Patrick, Michael Peña and Sean Penn. Set in 1949, it is a fictionalized account of t...
Starring: Dylan Penn•Cooper Hoffman•Luis Guzman•Ray Winstone•Powers Boothe•Sean Penn•Phoebe Cates•Robert Romanus•Brian Backer•Demi Moore
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is a 2013 American adventure comedy-drama film directed, co-produced by and starring Ben Stiller and written by Steve Conrad. The film also stars Kristen Wiig, Shirley MacLaine, Adam Scott, Kathryn Hahn, and Sean Penn. It is the second film adaptation of James Thurber's 1939 short story of the same name, following th...
Starring: Chris Penn•Cooper Hoffman•Jason Bateman•Michael Wincott•Nicolas Cage•Frances McDormand
This Must Be the Place (2012)
This Must Be the Place is a 2011 Italian-French-Irish drama film directed by Paolo Sorrentino, written by Sorrentino and Umberto Contarello (it) and released in the United States in late 2012. It stars Sean Penn and Frances McDormand. The film deals with a middle-aged wealthy rock star who becomes bored in his retirement and takes on the quest of f...
Starring: Cooper Hoffman•John Cusack
The Tree of Life (2011)
The Tree of Life is a 2011 American experimental coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Terrence Malick. Its main cast includes Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Hunter McCracken, Laramie Eppler, Jessica Chastain, and Tye Sheridan in his debut feature film role. The film chronicles the origins and meaning of life by way of a man's early life memories...
Starring: Cooper Hoffman•Tim Robbins•Josh Brolin•Mary Stuart Masterson•Don Cheadle•John Turturro
Fair Game (2010)
Fair Game is a 2010 biographical political drama film directed by Doug Liman and starring Naomi Watts and Sean Penn. It is based on Valerie Plame's 2007 memoir Fair Game and Joseph C. Wilson's 2004 memoir The Politics of Truth.
Starring: Robert Downey Jr.•Viggo Mortensen•Cooper Hoffman•Tom Waits•Robert Patrick•Kelvin Han Yee•Stephen Spinella•Kathy Baker•Kristin Scott Thomas•Woody Harrelson
Tropic Thunder (2008)
Tropic Thunder is a 2008 satirical action comedy film directed by Ben Stiller, who wrote the screenplay with Justin Theroux and Etan Cohen. The film stars Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr., Jay Baruchel, and Brandon T. Jackson as a group of prima donna actors making a Vietnam War film. When their frustrated director drops them in the middle of...
Starring: Benny Safdie•Dylan Penn•Ben Stiller•Cooper Hoffman•Elias Koteas•Jason Bateman•Patricia Clarkson•David Andrews•Uma Thurman•Kevin Spacey
What Just Happened (2008)
What Just Happened is a 2008 American satirical comedy-drama directed by Barry Levinson and starring Robert De Niro. The supporting cast includes Catherine Keener, Robin Wright Penn, Stanley Tucci, Moon Bloodgood, John Turturro, Sean Penn, and Bruce Willis. It is an independent film, produced by 2929 Productions, Art Linson Productions and Tribeca ...
Starring: Gary Oldman•Cooper Hoffman•Jude Law•Catherine Keener•Anthony LaPaglia•Claire Danes•Marcia Gay Harden•Peter Franzén•John C. Reilly•Billy Bob Thornton
Milk (2008)
Milk is a 2008 American biographical film based on the life of gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk, who was the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in California, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Directed by Gus Van Sant and written by Dustin Lance Black, the film stars Sean Penn as Milk and Josh ...
Starring: Michael Wright•Cooper Hoffman•Luis Guzman•Martin Lawrence•Brooke Smith•Sydney Pollack•James Rebhorn•Deborah Kara Unger•Chazz Palminteri•Alicia Silverstone
All the King's Men (2006)
All the King's Men is a 2006 American political drama film written, directed and produced by Steven Zaillian based on the 1946 Pulitzer Prize–winning novel of the same name by Robert Penn Warren. All the King's Men had previously been adapted into a Best Picture Oscar–winning film by writer-director Robert Rossen in 1949. The film narrates the rise...
Starring: Matthew McConaughey•Adrien Brody•Cooper Hoffman•Regina King•Ben Chaplin•Jasmine Trinca•Benicio del Toro•Jared Leto•Ted Jan Roberts
The Interpreter (2005)
The Interpreter is a 2005 political thriller film directed by Sydney Pollack, starring Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn, Catherine Keener, and Jesper Christensen. It was the first film shot inside the United Nations Headquarters, as well as the final feature film directed by Pollack before his death in 2008.
Starring: Cooper Hoffman•Mykelti Williamson•Claire Danes•Garry Shandling•Mark Rylance•Laura Linney•Giovanni Ribisi•Steve Coogan•Jennifer Lopez•Russell Means
The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004)
The Assassination of Richard Nixon is a 2004 American drama film directed by Niels Mueller and starring Sean Penn, Don Cheadle, Jack Thompson and Naomi Watts. It is based on the story of would-be assassin Samuel Byck, who plotted to kill Richard Nixon in 1974. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. The la...
Starring: Kate Winslet•Cooper Hoffman•Jude Law•Samantha Morton•David O'Hara•Mark Ruffalo•Stephen Spinella•Joseph Cross•Noah Emmerich•Michael Peña
21 Grams (2003)
21 Grams is a 2003 American psychological drama film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu from a screenplay by Guillermo Arriaga, based on a story by Arriaga and Iñárritu. The film stars Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Danny Huston and Benicio Del Toro. The second part of Arriaga's and Iñárritu's "Trilogy of Death", preceded by Amo...
Starring: Cooper Hoffman•James Franco•Stephen Spinella
Mystic River (2003)
Mystic River is a 2003 American neo-noir crime drama film directed and co-produced by Clint Eastwood, and starring Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden and Laura Linney. The screenplay, written by Brian Helgeland, was based on the 2001 novel of the same name by Dennis Lehane. It is the first film in which Eastw...
Starring: Javier Bardem•Maya Rudolph•Cooper Hoffman•Dakota Fanning•Emile Hirsch•Kristen Stewart
I Am Sam (2001)
I Am Sam is a 2001 American drama film co-written and directed by Jessie Nelson, and starring Sean Penn as a father with an intellectual disability, Dakota Fanning as his bright and inquisitive daughter, and Michelle Pfeiffer as his lawyer. Dianne Wiest, Loretta Devine, Richard Schiff, and Laura Dern appear in supporting roles.
Starring: Jennifer Ehle•Cooper Hoffman•Peter Dinklage
Up at the Villa (2000)
Up at the Villa is a 2000 romantic drama film directed by Philip Haas and starring Kristin Scott Thomas, Anne Bancroft, James Fox, Derek Jacobi, and Sean Penn. It is based on the 1941 novella Up at the Villa by W. Somerset Maugham.
Starring: Cooper Hoffman•Kathryn Hahn
Sweet and Lowdown (1999)
Sweet and Lowdown is a 1999 American comedy-drama mockumentary written and directed by Woody Allen. Loosely based on Federico Fellini's film La Strada, the film tells the story of confident jazz guitarist Emmet Ray who falls in love with mute laundress Hattie. Like several of Allen's other films, the film is occasionally interrupted by interviews w...
Starring: Cooper Hoffman•Katheryn Winnick•Ty Burrell•Michael Kelly
Hurlyburly (1998)
Hurlyburly is a 1998 independent comedy-drama film directed by Anthony Drazan and based on the 1984 play of the same name by David Rabe, who adapted the screenplay. The film is about the intersecting lives of several Hollywood players and wannabes. Rabe condensed the action of his three-hour plus play into two hours and updated the setting from the...
Starring: Cooper Hoffman•Ioan Gruffudd•Anthony Mackie•Adrian Martinez•Joe Marinelli
The Thin Red Line (1998)
The Thin Red Line is a 1998 American war film written and directed by Terrence Malick. It is the second screen adaptation of the 1962 novel of the same name by James Jones, following the 1964 film. Telling a fictionalized version of the Battle of Mount Austen, which was part of the Guadalcanal Campaign in the Pacific Theater of World War II, it por...
Starring: Dylan Penn•Laramie Eppler•Cooper Hoffman•Clyde Kusatsu•Jesper Christensen•Bradley Cooper•Idris Elba•Natalie Dormer•Bill Hader•Sullivan Stapleton
The Game (1997)
The Game is a 1997 American thriller film directed by David Fincher, starring Michael Douglas, Sean Penn, Deborah Kara Unger and James Rebhorn and produced by Propaganda Films and PolyGram Filmed Entertainment. It tells the story of a wealthy investment banker who is given a mysterious birthday gift by his brother—participation in a game that integ...
Starring: Kristen Wiig•Danny McBride•Cooper Hoffman•Josh Gad•Jessica Chastain
She's So Lovely (1997)
She's So Lovely is a 1997 American romantic drama film directed by Nick Cassavetes, written by John Cassavetes. At the time of its release, it received special attention because, eight years after his death, it was the first posthumous film to feature previously unreleased material from John Cassavetes.
Starring: Hunter McCracken•Laramie Eppler•Cooper Hoffman•Jasmine Trinca•Peter Franzén
U Turn (1997)
U Turn is a 1997 American neo-noir crime thriller film directed by Oliver Stone and starring Sean Penn, Billy Bob Thornton, Jennifer Lopez, Jon Voight, Powers Boothe, Joaquin Phoenix, Claire Danes, and Nick Nolte. It is based on the book Stray Dogs by John Ridley, who also wrote the screenplay.
Starring: Benny Safdie•Dylan Penn•Alana Haim•Cooper Hoffman•Sam Wanamaker•Jack Warden•Ray Walston•George C. Scott
Dead Man Walking (1995)
Dead Man Walking is a 1995 American crime drama film starring Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn, and co-produced and directed by Tim Robbins, who adapted the screenplay from the 1993 non-fiction book of the same name.
Starring: Robert Duvall•Cooper Hoffman
Carlito's Way (1993)
Carlito's Way is a 1993 American crime drama film directed by Brian De Palma, based on the novels Carlito's Way (1975) and After Hours (1979) by Judge Edwin Torres. The film adaptation was scripted by David Koepp. It stars Al Pacino, Sean Penn, Penelope Ann Miller, Luis Guzman, John Leguizamo, Jorge Porcel, Joseph Siravo, and Viggo Mortensen.
Starring: Donald Sutherland•Cooper Hoffman•Reni Santoni•Martin Sheen•Susan Sarandon•Christopher Walken
State of Grace (1990)
State of Grace is a 1990 American neo-noir crime film directed by Phil Joanou and starring Sean Penn, Ed Harris and Gary Oldman, also featuring Robin Wright, John Turturro, and John C. Reilly. Written by playwright Dennis McIntyre, the film was produced by Ned Dowd, Randy Ostrow, and Ron Rotholz, with a musical score by Ennio Morricone.
Starring: Al Pacino•Cooper Hoffman•Catherine Keener•Ronny Cox•Tom Berenger•Idris Elba
Casualties of War (1989)
Casualties of War is a 1989 American war drama film directed by Brian De Palma and written by David Rabe, based primarily on an article written by Daniel Lang for The New Yorker in 1969, which was later published as a book. The film stars Michael J. Fox and Sean Penn, and is based on the events of the 1966 incident on Hill 192 during the Vietnam Wa...
Starring: Ed Harris•Cooper Hoffman
We're No Angels (1989)
We're No Angels is a 1989 American comedy film directed by Neil Jordan. A remake of the 1955 film of the same name, the film stars Robert De Niro, Sean Penn, and Demi Moore. It received mixed reviews and grossed $10.5 million on a $20 million budget.
Starring: Gary Oldman•Cooper Hoffman•Michael J. Fox
Colors (1988)
Colors is a 1988 American police procedural action crime film starring Sean Penn and Robert Duvall, and directed by Dennis Hopper. The film takes place in the gang ridden neighborhoods of Los Angeles: late-1980s South Central Los Angeles, Echo Park, Westlake and East Los Angeles. The film centers on Bob Hodges (Duvall), an experienced Los Angeles P...
Starring: Timothy Hutton•Cooper Hoffman•Elizabeth McGovern
Judgment in Berlin (1988)
Judgment in Berlin is a 1988 American drama film directed and written by Leo Penn, produced by Joshua Sinclair, who also co-wrote the film and acted in it, and Ingrid Windisch and starring Martin Sheen, Sam Wanamaker and Sean Penn, the director's son. It is based on the book Judgment in Berlin by Herbert J. Stern.
Starring: Judge Reinhold•Jennifer Jason Leigh•Cooper Hoffman
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam (1987)
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam is a 1987 American documentary film inspired by the anthology of the same title, directed by Bill Couturié. The film's narration consists of real letters written by American soldiers, which are read by actors including Robert de Niro and Martin Sheen. The footage includes film from TV news, the Department of ...
Starring: Phoebe Cates•Cooper Hoffman
At Close Range (1986)
At Close Range is a 1986 American neo-noir crime drama film directed by James Foley, based on the real life rural Pennsylvania crime family led by Bruce Johnston Sr. which operated during the 1960s and 1970s. It stars Sean Penn and Christopher Walken, with Mary Stuart Masterson, Sean's brother Chris Penn, David Strathairn, Crispin Glover, Kiefer Su...
Starring: Robert Romanus•Cooper Hoffman•Brian Backer•Demi Moore
Shanghai Surprise (1986)
Shanghai Surprise is a 1986 adventure comedy film directed by Jim Goddard and starring then-newlyweds Sean Penn and Madonna. The screenplay was adapted by John Kohn and Robert Bentley from Tony Kenrick's 1978 novel Faraday's Flowers.
Starring: Cooper Hoffman•Chris Penn
Falcon and the Snowman, The (1985)
The Falcon and the Snowman is a 1985 American spy drama film directed by John Schlesinger. The screenplay by Steven Zaillian is based on the 1979 book The Falcon and the Snowman: A True Story of Friendship and Espionage by Robert Lindsey, and tells the true story of two young American men, Christopher Boyce and Andrew Daulton Lee, who sold US secur...
Starring: Esai Morales•Cooper Hoffman
Crackers (1984)
Crackers is a 1984 American comedy-crime film directed by Louis Malle. It was entered into the 34th Berlin International Film Festival.
Starring: Ally Sheedy•Nicolas Cage•Cooper Hoffman
Racing with the Moon (1984)
Racing with the Moon is a 1984 American drama film starring Sean Penn, Elizabeth McGovern, and Nicolas Cage. It was directed by Richard Benjamin and written by Steve Kloves. The original music score was composed by Dave Grusin.
Starring: María Conchita Alonso•Cooper Hoffman•Madonna
Bad Boys (1983)
Bad Boys is a 1983 American coming-of-age crime drama film set in a juvenile detention center, starring Sean Penn, Esai Morales, and Clancy Brown, Alan Ruck and Ally Sheedy in their film debuts. The film is directed by Rick Rosenthal. The original music score was composed by Bill Conti.
Starring: Mary Stuart Masterson•Cooper Hoffman•Viggo Mortensen•Robin Wright
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High is a 1982 American coming-of-age comedy film directed by Amy Heckerling from a screenplay by Cameron Crowe, based on his 1981 book Fast Times at Ridgemont High: A True Story, and starring Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold, Phoebe Cates, Brian Backer, Robert Romanus, Ray Walston, Amanda Wyss, Scott Thompson...
Starring: Penelope Ann Miller•Joaquin Phoenix•Gary Oldman•Cooper Hoffman•Billy Bob Thornton•John Leguizamo•Luis Guzman
Taps (1981)
Taps is a 1981 American drama film starring George C. Scott and Timothy Hutton, with Ronny Cox, Tom Cruise, Sean Penn, and Evan Handler in supporting roles. Hutton was nominated for a Golden Globe award in 1982. The film was directed by Harold Becker from a screenplay by Robert Mark Kamen, James Lineberger, and Darryl Ponicsan, based on Devery Free...
Starring: Claire Danes•Jennifer Lopez•Esai Morales•Ben Stiller•Cooper Hoffman