- Strangers with Candy (film)
Infobox Film
name = Strangers with Candy
caption = Theatrical release poster
director =Paul Dinello
producer =Stephen Colbert David Letterman
writer =Stephen Colbert Paul Dinello Amy Sedaris Mitch Rouse
starring =Amy Sedaris Stephen Colbert Paul Dinello Dan Hedaya Joseph Cross Deborah Rush
music =Marcelo Zarvos
cinematography = Oliver Bokelberg
editing = Michael R. Miller
distributor =ThinkFilm Comedy Central Films
released =June 28 , 2006
runtime = 97 min.
country = flagicon|USA
language = English
budget = $2 million
gross = $2,068,323
website = http://strangerswithcandymovie.com/
imdb_id = 0369994"Strangers with Candy" is a film released in 2006 by
ThinkFilm , first screened at the 2005Sundance Film Festival . It is a prequel to the TV show "Strangers with Candy ". Among the executive producers wasDavid Letterman .Plot
Jerri Blank (
Amy Sedaris ), a former high school dropout and self-described "junkie whore", is released from prison and returns to her childhood home. She discovers her mother has died, her father (Dan Hedaya ) has remarried to the hateful Sara Blank (Deborah Rush ) and she has an annoying half-brother Derrick (Joseph Cross ). To make matters worse, her father is in a "stress-induced coma." Taking the suggestion of the family doctor (Ian Holm ) literally, Jerri decides to pick her life back up where she left it, beginning her high school all over again as a freshman at Flatpoint High.Jerri joins Chuck Noblet's (
Stephen Colbert )science fair team, the Fig Neutrons, along with her new friends Megawatti Sucarnaputri (a spoof onMegawati Sukarnoputri ) and Tammi Littlenut (Maria Thayer ). Noblet is not pleased to learn that Flatpoint's Principal Onyx Blackman (Greg Hollimon ) has hired aringer for their team (played byMatthew Broderick ) to ensure that Flatpoint wins, and so Noblet creates a second team. As she struggles to fit in and make her teammates proud, Jerri discovers that though the faces have changed, the hassles of high school are just the same.Cast
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Amy Sedaris as Geraldine "Jerri" Blank
*Stephen Colbert as Chuck Noblet
*Paul Dinello as Geoffrey Jellineck
*Dan Hedaya as Guy Blank
*Joseph Cross as Derrick Blank
*Deborah Rush as Sara Blank
*Allison Janney as Alice
*Matthew Broderick as Roger Beekman
*Philip Seymour Hoffman as Henry
*Sarah Jessica Parker as Peggy Callas
*Justin Theroux as Carlo Honklin
*Chris Pratt as Brason
*Maria Thayer as Tammi Littlenut
*Carlo Alban as Megawatti Sucarnaputri
*Kristen Johnston as Coach Divers
*Ian Holm as Dr. Putney
*Elisabeth Harnois as MonicaProduction
Writer/star
Amy Sedaris admitted in an interview that they never intended on making a film after the series was cancelled, stating, "Paul, Steve, and I were working on our book "Wigfield" ... We kept coming up with funny Jerri Blank stuff to say, so it would go into a file, and by the end of the book, Paul opened the file and there was all this Blank stuff, and he said, 'Oh, it would be so funny to write a movie.' That's really how it happened." [Gillette, Amelie. [http://www.avclub.com/content/node/49863 "The Onion A.V. Club Interview: Amy Sedaris"] , "AVClub.com"June 28 , 2006.]Characters not returning
* Orlando Patoboy looked too old to reprise his series role as Orlando Pinatubo. His character was then replaced by the similar Megawatti Sacarnaputri.
*Larc Spies did not return for the role of Derrick Blank because, according to Amy Sedaris, "he looks like a longshoreman now." Several other characters were re-cast because the original actors looked too old to believeably play high schoolers. The only original student to return wasMaria Thayer as redhead Tammi Littlenut.
*Roberto Gari did not reprise the role of Guy Blank, who was instead portrayed by Dan Hedaya. Hedaya portrayed Guy's comatose state differently than Gari; in the television show, Guy is frozen in humorous, almost statuesque state, whereas the film had Guy simply be unconscious.References
External links
* [http://strangerswithcandymovie.com/ Official site]
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