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Michael Penn is a Actor and Sound American born on 1 august 1958
Michael Penn (born August 1, 1958) is an American singer, songwriter and composer. He is the eldest son of actor/director Leo Penn and actress Eileen Ryan, and the brother of actors Sean Penn and Chris Penn.
En 1989, il se fait connaître du grand public avec le titre No Myth, extrait de son premier album Mercy, obtient un succès commercial aux États-Unis et obtient en 1990 le MTV Video Music Award Best New Artist, récompensant le meilleur clip vidéo d'un nouvel artiste.
En plus d'enregistrer ses albums, il compose aussi des musiques de films, notamment les deux premiers longs-métrages du réalisateur Paul Thomas Anderson : Double mise (1996) et Boogie Nights (1997).
On peut également citer de sa filmographie en tant que compositeur : The Anniversary Party (2001), Melvin Goes to Dinner où il est nommé aux DVD Exclusive Awards pour la meilleure musique de film, The Last Kiss (2006) et récemment Sunshine Cleaning (2008).
Ces dernières années, certaines de ses chansons se sont retrouvées dans diverses séries américaines. On peut citer :
Walter Reed dans un épisode de Dr House (saison 3 épisode 5) ;
Whole Truth dans The Shield (saison 2 épisode 3)
En 2018 il crée la bande sonore pour deux séries : Good Girls de NBC et Here and Now de HBO.
Il est marié depuis 1997 avec la chanteuse Aimee Mann. Ils habitent à Los Angeles.
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Michael Penn
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Fils de la comédienne Eileen Ryan et de l'acteur-réalisateur Leo Penn, Michael est également le frère aîné des acteurs Sean et Chris Penn.En 1989, il se fait connaître du grand public avec le titre No Myth, extrait de son premier album Mercy, obtient un succès commercial aux États-Unis et obtient en 1990 le MTV Video Music Award Best New Artist, récompensant le meilleur clip vidéo d'un nouvel artiste.
En plus d'enregistrer ses albums, il compose aussi des musiques de films, notamment les deux premiers longs-métrages du réalisateur Paul Thomas Anderson : Double mise (1996) et Boogie Nights (1997).
On peut également citer de sa filmographie en tant que compositeur : The Anniversary Party (2001), Melvin Goes to Dinner où il est nommé aux DVD Exclusive Awards pour la meilleure musique de film, The Last Kiss (2006) et récemment Sunshine Cleaning (2008).
Ces dernières années, certaines de ses chansons se sont retrouvées dans diverses séries américaines. On peut citer :
Walter Reed dans un épisode de Dr House (saison 3 épisode 5) ;
Whole Truth dans The Shield (saison 2 épisode 3)
En 2018 il crée la bande sonore pour deux séries : Good Girls de NBC et Here and Now de HBO.
Il est marié depuis 1997 avec la chanteuse Aimee Mann. Ils habitent à Los Angeles.
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Boogie Nights (1997)
, 2h36Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about families, Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Films about drugs, Films about sexuality, Films about television, Films about pornography, Musical films, Buddy films
Actors Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, Burt Reynolds, Don Cheadle, John C. Reilly, William H. Macy
Roles Nick the Engineer
Rating78%
In 1977, Eddie Adams is a high school dropout who lives with his stepfather and emotionally abusive alcoholic mother in Torrance, California. He works at a Reseda nightclub owned by Maurice Rodriguez, where he is discovered by porn director Jack Horner, who auditions him by watching him have sex with Rollergirl, a porn starlet who always wears skates. After a heated argument with his mother about his girlfriend and sex life, Adams moves in with Horner at his San Fernando Valley home.
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Carrie Pilby (2016)
, 1h38Directed by Susan Johnson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Bel Powley, Nathan Lane, Gabriel Byrne, Jason Ritter, William Moseley, Vanessa Bayer
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating67%
À 19 ans, il lui faudra plus que son QI de génie pour sortir de sa coquille, et de chez elle, se faire des amis, trouver un travail, et peut-être même rencontrer l'amour.
Barefoot (2014)
, 1h30Directed by Andrew Fleming
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Evan Rachel Wood, Scott Speedman, Treat Williams, Kate Burton, J. K. Simmons, Joe Chrest
Roles Music
Rating65%
Jay Wheeler, the "black sheep" son of a rich family meets Daisy, a young psychiatric patient who has been raised in isolation her entire life. He takes the naïve young woman home for his brother's wedding to convince his family that he has finally straightened out his life. She impresses the family with her genuine, if unstable, charm. His father, suspecting that something is amiss, presses her for information at the wedding. She suffers a panic attack, and Jay shuffles her into a car and they head to his parents' house. After searching through his father's cars for keys, they find a set in a classic RV and set out for home. At Shreveport, Louisiana, he leaves her in a bus station, but ends up having a change of heart and goes back for her and they head towards his home.
Skateland (2010)
, 1h38Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Shiloh Fernandez, Ashley Greene, Brett Cullen, James LeGros, Taylor Handley, Haley Ramm
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating56%
The story takes place in a small town in Texas in 1983. The film follows a 19-year-old boy named Ritchie Wheeler (Shiloh Fernandez) who spends most of his time at the local roller rink where he works and hangs out with his friends, Brent Burkham (Heath Freeman), Brent's sister Michelle (Ashley Greene) and Kenny Crawford (Taylor Handley). Ritchie is struggling trying to figure out his future, what he wants to do with his life and if he wants to go to college. When a tragedy occurs in Ritchie's life he is forced to make these decisions earlier than he expected.
Solitary Man (2009)
, 1h30Directed by Brian Koppelman, David Levien
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Michael Douglas, Jenna Fischer, Jesse Eisenberg, Mary-Louise Parker, Imogen Poots, Susan Sarandon
Rating62%
The film opens with 54-year-old Ben Kalmen (Michael Douglas), an attractive and very successful car dealer in the New York area, at his annual medical check-up; his doctor tells him he needs a CAT scan to get a better look at his heart, due to an "irregularity" in his EKG.
American Teen (2009)
, 1h35Directed by Nanette Burstein
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Documentary, Romance
Themes Documentaire sur une personnalité
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating63%
That Evening Sun (2009)
Genres Drama
Actors Hal Holbrook, Ray McKinnon, Walton Goggins, Mia Wasikowska, Carrie Preston, Barry Corbin
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating69%
Abner Meecham (Hal Holbrook), an aging Tennessee farmer discarded at a nursing facility by his lawyer son, flees the old folks home and catches a ride back to his country farm to live out his days in peace. Upon his return, he discovers that his son (Walton Goggins) has leased the farm to an old enemy and his family. Not one to suffer fools or go down easy, Abner moves into the old tenant shack on the property and declares that he will not leave until the farm is returned to his possession. But Lonzo Choat (Ray McKinnon), the new tenant, has no intention to move out or give in to the demands of the old man.
Sunshine Cleaning (2008)
, 1h31Directed by Christine Jeffs
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about families
Actors Amy Adams, Emily Blunt, Jason Spevack, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Steve Zahn, Alan Arkin
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating67%
Rose Lorkowski (Amy Adams) is a thirty-something single mother, working full-time as a maid. Her underachieving sister Norah (Emily Blunt) lives with their father Joe (Alan Arkin), and is fired from her job as a waitress. After the school expels Rose's son Oscar for his erratic behavior, she is told she must put him on medication or send him to a private school. Unable to make enough money with her current job, Rose asks Mac (Steve Zahn), her ex-boyfriend during their high school years and her married lover, for advice. Mac recommends a crime scene cleanup job, and with his connections as a police officer, he gets Rose and Norah into the business.
Ghost Writer (2007)
Directed by Alan Cumming
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Comedy horror films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors David Boreanaz, Alan Cumming, Anne Heche, Karen Black, Carrie Fisher, Henry Thomas
Rating46%
John, an eccentric music teacher, takes in Sebastian, a younger writer, ostensibly in an effort to help him, but is really attracted to him. When Sebastian starts dating a woman and it becomes serious, John starts a fight that ultimately results in Sebastian's accidental death. John then finds the manuscript of Sebastian's surprising, unpublished book and decides to publish it as his own.
The Last Kiss (2006)
, 1h55Directed by Tony Goldwyn
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Zach Braff, Jacinda Barrett, Rachel Bilson, Casey Affleck, Blythe Danner, Michael Weston
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating63%
Michael and his live-in girlfriend Jenna appear to have the perfect relationship. Jenna is ten weeks pregnant, and her parents are pressuring the pair to get married, but Jenna claims that Michael's work pressures and her working on her dissertation render it an inopportune time for marriage. The real reason, unbeknownst to anyone, is that Michael feels trapped and scared. Although he considers Jenna an ideal companion, Michael is having second thoughts.
Melvin Goes to Dinner (2003)
, 1h23Directed by Bob Odenkirk
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Stephanie Courtney, Annabelle Gurwitch, Maura Lynn Tierney, Jenna Fischer, Jack Black, Laura Kightlinger
Roles Music
Rating66%
Melvin is a onetime medical student who has dropped out of medical training and now works (after a fashion) in a planning office of an unnamed city; the office supervisor is his big sister, so she "mothers" him instead of making him perform well. Melvin accidentally makes telephone contact with an old friend, and they decide to meet that evening for dinner. The friend decides to arrive early at the restaurant for drinks with a lady friend. By the time the dinner appointment arrives, there are 4 people involved, all of them connected in some way to at least one of the other parties. The evening passes in a leisurely dinner with much conversation, sometimes intimate. The connections between the parties are revealed throughout the evening. The movie includes several flashbacks, which at the start are not explained but which become understandable by the end.
The Anniversary Party (2001)
, 1h55Directed by Alan Cumming, Jennifer Jason Leigh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about television
Actors Kevin Kline, John C. Reilly, Jane Adams, Parker Posey, Phoebe Cates, Gwyneth Paltrow
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating62%
Sally Nash and Joe Therrian are a Hollywood couple celebrating their sixth wedding anniversary shortly after reconciling following a period of separation. He is a novelist who is about to direct the screen adaptation of his most recent bestseller; she is an actress he has opted not to cast in the lead role, despite the fact it's partly based on her, because he feels she's too old for the part. This decision, coupled with an ongoing dispute about their barking dog Otis with their strait-laced, non-industry neighbors, clean-and-sober writer Ryan and interior decorator Monica Rose, has resulted in an undercurrent of tension between the two as they prepare for the arrival of their guests.
Hard Eight (1997)
, 1h41Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy-drama, Noir, Crime
Actors Philip Baker Hall, John C. Reilly, Gwyneth Paltrow, Samuel L. Jackson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robert Ridgely
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating70%
Sydney, a gambler in his 60s, finds a young man, John, sitting forlornly outside a diner and offers to give him a cigarette and buy him a cup of coffee. Sydney learns that John is trying to raise enough money for his mother's burial. He offers to drive him to Las Vegas and teach him how to make some money and survive. Skeptical at first, John agrees.
Boogie Nights (1997)
, 2h36Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about families, Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Films about drugs, Films about sexuality, Films about television, Films about pornography, Musical films, Buddy films
Actors Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, Burt Reynolds, Don Cheadle, John C. Reilly, William H. Macy
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating78%
In 1977, Eddie Adams is a high school dropout who lives with his stepfather and emotionally abusive alcoholic mother in Torrance, California. He works at a Reseda nightclub owned by Maurice Rodriguez, where he is discovered by porn director Jack Horner, who auditions him by watching him have sex with Rollergirl, a porn starlet who always wears skates. After a heated argument with his mother about his girlfriend and sex life, Adams moves in with Horner at his San Fernando Valley home.