Daddio (2023): Christy Hall’s Tale of a Woman and her Taxi Driver, Starring Dakota Johnson and Oscar Winner Sean Penn (AMOUR)

Intimate tale, entirely set in a taxi stuck at night on jammed highway from JFK airport to Manhattan.

At Close Range (1986): James Foley’s Father-Son Melodrama Starring Oscar Winner Christopher Walken and Sean Penn

At Close Range begins as a tale about alienated youth, but quickly devolves into an intergenerational melodrama of a youngster corrupted by his own father in a valueless world. Nicholas Kazan's screenplay is lean, but Foley treats the story of Brad Jr.'s (Sean Penn) fall from grace with excessive visuals and aural ripeness. Everything is lavish, overly stylized: night shots are perfectly lighted, figures are silhouetted against blue light.