Michael Penn

Sound

August 1, 1958 (67 years)

New York City, New York, USA

Biography

Michael Daniel Penn (born August 1, 1958) is an American musician, singer, composer, and occasional actor. Perhaps best known for his Top 40 hit single "No Myth", released in November 1989 - and featured in Amy Heckerling's 2000 romantic comedy Loser - Penn has primarily worked as a film composer. He has married to fellow 80's hitmaker Aimee Mann, of the band 'Til Tuesday.

Filmography

7.1

Masters of Sex

William Masters and Virginia Johnson are real-life pioneers of the science of human sexuality. Their research touched off the sexual revolution and took them from a midwestern teaching hospital to the cover of Time magazine and multiple appearances on Johnny Carson's couch. He is a brilliant scientist out of touch with his own feelings, and she is a single working mother ahead of her time. The series chronicles their unusual lives, romance, and unlikely pop culture trajectory.

7.8

Good Girls

Three "good girl" suburban wives and mothers suddenly find themselves in desperate circumstances and decide to stop playing it safe and risk everything to take their power back.

7.6

Boogie Nights

In 1977, an idealistic porn producer and his promising protege try to catch up with the end of an era before their never-ending party collides with cold, hard reality.

6.8

Hard Eight

A stranger mentors a young Reno gambler who weds a hooker and befriends a vulgar casino regular.

8.1

Pee-wee as Himself

A kaleidoscopic portrait told in two parts tracing the life of the imaginative artist.

6.7

Barefoot

The "black sheep" son of a wealthy family meets a young psychiatric patient who's been raised in isolation her entire life. He takes the naive young woman home for his brother's wedding an improbable romance blooms, as she impresses everyone with her genuine, simple charms.

6.1

The Last Kiss

Michael has a great job, has his 4 best friends, and is in love with a beautiful girl at 30. He loves Jenna but his life seems predictable until someone else enters his life. It seems that everybody's having relationship problems.

5.9

Solitary Man

A car magnate watches his personal and professional life hit the skids because of his business and romantic indiscretions.

6.6

Sunshine Cleaning

A single mother and her slacker sister find an unexpected way to turn their lives around in this off-beat dramatic comedy. In order to raise the tuition to send her young son to private school the mom starts an unusual business – a biohazard removal/crime scene clean-up service.

6.8

Carrie Pilby

Awkward, isolated and disapproving of most of the people around her, a precocious 19-year-old genius is challenged to put her convictions to the test by venturing out on to the NYC dating scene.

5.5

Boundaries

Single mom Laura, along with her awkward 14 year-old son Henry is forced to drive Jack, her estranged, care-free pot dealing father across country after he's kicked out of yet another nursing home.

6.0

Fairyland

A father-daughter relationship evolves through an era of bohemian decadence in 1970s San Francisco to the sober and heartbreaking era of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s.

6.7

That Evening Sun

An aging Tennessee farmer returns to his homestead and must confront a family betrayal, the reappearance of an old enemy, and the loss of his farm.

6.3

American Teen

A documentary on seniors at a high school in a small Indiana town and their various cliques.

5.5

I Love You Forever

A subversive romantic comedy gone wrong that follows a young woman into and out of an emotionally abusive relationship.

5.1

Skateland

In the early 1980s, in small-town Texas, dramatic events force a 19-year-old skating rink manager to look at his life in a very new way.

5.4

Melvin Goes to Dinner

Four thirtysomethings convene for a wine-fueled dinner party that turns increasingly intimate as they discuss everything from religion and ghosts to relationships and sexual fetishes.

5.7

The Anniversary Party

While celebrating their reconciliation and six years of marriage, American actress Sally Nash and British novelist Joe Therrian receive their close friends, some colleagues and their next door neighbors in a party. Under the effect of Ecstasy, revelations are disclosed and relationships deteriorate among the group.

5.8

Frankenstein's Monster's Monster, Frankenstein

When actor David Harbour finds lost footage of his father's disastrous televised stage play of a literary classic, he uncovers shocking family secrets.

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