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Tech Specs
Origin: USA
Format: Digital
Running Time: 90 minutes
Language: English

Ellie Parker

Year: 2005
Genre: Drama/Comedy
Cast:
Naomi Watts
Chevy Chase
Scott Coffey
Fanshen Cox
Mark Pellegrino

Director:
Scott Coffey

Producers:
Naomi Watts
Scott Coffey
Matt Chesse
Blair Mastbaum

Synopsis:
Naomi Watts is brilliant in this clever comic portrait of a struggling young actress in Hollywood searching for a good role. As she desperately rushes from audition to audition encountering endless Hollywood-types, she strives to keep her acting dream alive while her personal life steadily falls apart.

ELLIE PARKER (Naomi Watts) races around town from one audition to another, changing make-up, clothes and personality as she speeds along, barely attending to her whirlwind life as she strives to get cast in a movie. And her best friend SAM (Rebecca Rigg), her boyfriend JUSTIN (Mark Pellegrino) and her new fling CHRIS (Scott Coffey) just don't seem to help. As Ellie considers giving up after losing faith in the craft, her manager DENNIS (Chevy Chase) doesn't exactly talk her out of it. One last insane audition for Ellie, and she's back in the game...or is she?

"Watts delightfully displays her comic talents...[she] emerges not only as appealing and lovely as ever but as a first-rate comedienne!" Todd McCarthy Variety

"Many laugh-out-loud moments abound, genuine charm and honest sentiment make "Parker" an independent winner." Jonathan W. Hickman, Entertainment Insider

"Brimming with humor, often emotionally riveting, working with a quasi-verite style, Ellie Parker is a transcendent piece of filmmaking" - Geoffrey Gilmore, Sundance

Other Reviews:

CalendarLive.com

NewYorkTimes.com

FrontiersPublishing.com