I liked Sean Penn in Fast Times a Ridgemont High, Jeff Spicoli was possibly one of the single most beloved and influential film characters of the 80s. But it wasn’t until seeing him in Bad Boys that I became a huge fan of the early Penn. Now he ain’t much of a director, and his latest film Into the Wild (2007) confirms that without question (was it simply a bad Eddie Vedder music video that forced Hal Holbrook to run up a mountain?). So, in tribute to my favorite Sean Penn role as the Chi-town badass Irishman Jimmy O’Brien, here’s a hard hitting clip from Bad Boys.

One from the archives for all you fathers out there today. A scene taken from the 1986 classic At Close Range, starring the great Sean Penn, Christopher Walken, and the sorely missed Chris Penn (his death in 2006 hit me kind of hard ’cause I always imagined my older brother was like Sean Penn, and I was more akin to his younger sidekick Chris Penn –and I was very happy with that equation!).

The film’s tagline: “Like father. Like son. Like hell.”
As usual, warning, warning, naughty language Enjoy!

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