Sean Penn Goes Into the Wild

By Mallory Potosky
URL: http://www.moviemaker.com/blog/item/sean_penn/
Sean Penn has spent the majority of his career in front of the camera. In 1982 when he made a splash in Amy Heckerling's Fast Times at Ridgemont High, he was the young, blonde, carefree surfer dude. By 2007, at the age of 47, Penn has turned himself into a thought- and discussion-provoking actor-writer-director-producer. Throughout his journey he has starred in Carlito's Way (1993), Dead Man Walking (1995), U Turn (1997) and 21 Grams (2003) and made a name for himself as the dark and brooding actor's actor. Now he's stepping behind the camera for the fourth time, detailing another man's life-changing journey in the drama Into the Wild, released in the U.S. on Friday, September 21.