Actor Sean Penn was often characterized and stereotyped by early-career exploits of consistently making news headlines for punching cameramen, his political viewpoints, and marrying the world's most recognizable pop star of the time, Madonna. As Director Don Hardy, sometimes eloquently and sometimes pragmatically, reveals in CITIZEN PENN Sean Penn has diligently changed his image through extensive efforts to aid assistance to his fellow 'man' in war-torn, disaster laden, disaffected countries beginning in 2002 with the war in Iraq right up to the current COVID-19-infected United States