The Pledge

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The Pledge

film by Penn [2001]

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Sean Penn
Dead Man Walking, I Am Sam, and Mystic River
…impressive directorial effort came with The Pledge. The 2001 drama featured Jack Nicholson as a police detective who vows to find a child killer. In 2003 Penn won best actor honors at the Venice Film Festival for 21 Grams (2003), and the following year he received a best actor Oscar…
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…impressive directorial effort came with The Pledge. The 2001 drama featured Jack Nicholson as a police detective who vows to find a child killer. In 2003 Penn won best actor honors at the Venice Film Festival for 21 Grams (2003), and the following year he received a best actor Oscar…
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Jack Nicholson
Later work
…former cop in Sean Penn’s The Pledge (2001), he scored another personal triumph with his much-lauded performance as the title character in Alexander Payne’s About Schmidt (2002), a movie about a retired widower seeking to mend his relationship with his daughter. Nicholson’s understated acting in the melancholic comedy earned him…
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…former cop in Sean Penn’s The Pledge (2001), he scored another personal triumph with his much-lauded performance as the title character in Alexander Payne’s About Schmidt (2002), a movie about a retired widower seeking to mend his relationship with his daughter. Nicholson’s understated acting in the melancholic comedy earned him…
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