Citizen Penn

Name: Citizen Penn
Genre: Documentary
Released: May 6, 2021
Duration: 93 min
Rating: 69
Cast: Anderson Cooper, Ann Lee, Cécile Accilien, Sean Penn

2021

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Discovery+ | Release Date (Streaming): May 6, 2021 | Not Rated

Starring: Anderson Cooper, Ann Lee, Cécile Accilien, Sean Penn

Summary: Citizen Penn chronicles the moment Sean Penn and his team of volunteers landed in Haiti, just days after the earthquake struck, and the ten years since. The film offers viewers a look into the triumphs and challenges of those who decided to do something. For Penn, Haiti changed his life. He went there for what he thought was a two-week aidCitizen Penn chronicles the moment Sean Penn and his team of volunteers landed in Haiti, just days after the earthquake struck, and the ten years since. The film offers viewers a look into the triumphs and challenges of those who decided to do something. For Penn, Haiti changed his life. He went there for what he thought was a two-week aid mission to drop off supplies, help doctors provide immediate medical care, and then get out and get back to his normal life. Instead, he stayed and created an organization called J/P HRO (now CORE) that took over management duties for the largest camp for displaced people in the entire country. Over the past few years, CORE has expanded its efforts across the United States, most recently organizing free COVID-19 testing sites across the country and running the nation’s largest vaccination site at Dodgers Stadium in Los Angeles. Citizen Penn highlights the team and their current projects in the U.S.… Expand

Director: Don Hardy Jr.

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 93 min

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Movie Nation Roger Moore

May 3, 2021

Citizen Penn isn’t a wholly balanced portrait of the “do gooder” star and humanitarian. It flirts with turning towards hagiography, here and there. But what it manages to get across is that dismissing Penn and his passion for philanthropy of this sort is a mistake, that he’s sincere, committed to the long game, and an impatient man-of-action pretty good at articulating why you should pitch in, too, in whatever way works. Read full review

Alex Saveliev

Oct 26, 2020

Although Penn is the focal point of Citizen Penn, the real citizens of this story are the Haitians. They are resilient, optimistic, and refuse to be labeled as victims. I do wish that we got to meet some of them a bit more intimately, that Hardy delved a little deeper into Haiti’s sociopolitical history. As it stands, it functions as a perfectly serviceable call to action, an extended, heartfelt PSA that neither glamorizes nor demonizes the actor. Read full review

Owen Gleiberman

May 12, 2021

Some of this is stirring stuff, and all of it is worth learning about, but as a documentary Citizen Penn is more diligent than riveting. Read full review

Glenn Kenny

May 6, 2021

Sean Penn’s work in Haiti after its devastating 2011 earthquake continues to this day. And this new documentary Citizen Penn is a revealing, engaging chronicle of the actor’s activism. Read full review

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