'21 Grams'

The mini Sean Penn festival continued at chez joe last night, with this movie on DVD.

Excellent, just like "Mystic River."

Does Sean Penn ever appear in a bad movie?

I mean, as Spicoli in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" he stole the film, and he's equally good now, 22 years later.

He's now reached the point in my mind where I'll automatically see a movie he's in.

He joins Andy Garcia, Sean Connery, Gene Hackman, and a couple others I can't remember in this elite group.

Naomi Watts was electric: I can't believe she didn't win the Academy Award for her performance (though she was nominated), which took her from a carefree life as an upscale suburban housewife down into the hellholes of drug addiction, cheap motels, and murder.