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Mood:
- CleverHumorousWittyBitingOffbeat
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Plot:
- Actor's LifePsychologicalShowbizArtists and ShowbizDishonestyGenderLifestyleLove and Romance more...
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Genres:
- ComedyDrama
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Time/Period:
- Contemporary
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Place:
- HollywoodNightclub
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Audience:
- Date Night
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Humor:
- Irreverent Humor
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Based on:
- Based on Short Film
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Attitudes:
- Semi SeriousRealistic
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Ellie Parker, 2005
English
USA
Profile of Ellie Parker
Ellie Parker can be described as biting, clever, and witty. The plot revolves around the life of an actor, showbiz, and gender. Its comic aspect comes from irreverent humor. Ellie Parker's main genres are drama and comedy. In approach, it is realistic. It is set, at least in part, at a nightclub. Ellie Parker is located in Hollywood. It takes place in contemporary times. It is based on a short film. Ellie Parker is well suited for a date night.
Summary of Ellie Parker
Shot on digital video over a period of five years, ELLIE PARKER takes an unfiltered look at the Hollywood people rarely see. An insider's story in many ways, the film should appeal to actors and film-industry people for the way it pokes fun at the entertainment profession. Naomi Watts (MULLHOLLAND DRIVE, 21 GRAMS) throws herself fully into the role of Ellie Parker, an eager young Australian actress trying to break into Hollywood. Often transparent and rarely likeable, Ellie is an all too-realistic example of many striving actors. Changing clothes, applying makeup, and experimenting with various dialects in her car while on the way from one audition to the next, Ellie eagerly transforms herself at a moment's notice for the chance of getting a role. When Ellie finds out that her loser boyfriend (Mark Pellegrino) is cheating on her, she seeks solace in her best friend and fellow actress, Sam (Rebecca Rigg), and an equally hapless new love interest, Chris (Scott Coffey). Through chaotic and unrewarding auditions, hilarious acting exercises, therapy sessions, and messy one-night-stands, Ellie makes misguided but funny attempts to find herself in as dramatic a way as possible. While viewers might like to think of this perversely self-conscious, self-consumed, and shallow character as an anomaly, the film suggests that people like her are, unfortunately, a dime a dozen in Los Angeles. While meant to be funny throughout, ELLIE PARKER is also sad in that Ellie's real life feels even less genuine than her acting. First conceived as a 16-minute short, the film grew into a feature-length project with Watts as producer, and actor Scott Coffey as director. The two worked together on MULLHOLLAND DRIVE, and let that film's main character (also a striving actress)--along with Watts's own experiences--inform their story.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 21 January 2005 |
| Runtime: | 95 min |
Cast and Crew
as Ellie Parker
as Dennis Swartzbaum
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Critics Reviews
Salon.com
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- by: Andrew O'Hehir
Entertainment Weekly
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- by: Scott Brown
Users Reviews
- 20.March.2009
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- by: sethdellinger
- sethdellinger rated this movie
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