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Strangers with Candy, 1999 - 2000

Starring: Amy Sedaris, Stephen Colbert, Paul Dinello, Gregory Hollimon

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Language: English

Country: USA

Runtime: 22 min

Rating:8.0

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The mood of Strangers with Candy is witty, offbeat, and humorous. The plot centers around rehabilitation, suburban life, and starting over. It features satire and irreverent humor. Strangers with Candy is a comedy TV show. Stylistically, it campy humor. In approach, it is realistic. Strangers with Candy takes place, at least partly, in the suburbs and at a high school. It happens in the 1990s. It is especially suggested for a date night and teens.

Summary of Strangers with Candy

Jerri Blank (Amy Sedaris) has been a runaway, prostitute, drug addict, and general misfit all her life. But upon her release from prison, the 46-year-old decides it's time to clean up her life, move back in with her family, and earn a high school diploma. Starting over as a freshman, hapless Jerri returns to class amidst a hostile student body and an unhelpful, self-involved faculty--among them sensitive art teacher Geoffrey Jellineck (Paul Dinello); ambiguously gay history teacher Charles Noblet (Stephen Colbert); and Machiavellian principal Onyx Blackman (Greg Hollimon)--while contending with a dysfunctional home life that includes her elderly father Guy (Roberto Gari), evil stepmother Sara (Deborah Rush), and bullying half-brother Derrick (Larc Spies). As ex-con Jerri maneuvers through the pecking order of teen life with zero social savoir-faire and her own brand of clueless prison ethics, Strangers with Candy serves as a biting, politically-incorrect satire of moralizing afterschool specials and a hilarious look at the pangs of growing up--again.