- Ellie Parker
Infobox_Film
name = Ellie Parker
caption = Movie poster for "Ellie Parker"
writer =Scott Coffey
starring =Naomi Watts Rebecca Rigg Scott Coffey Mark Pellegrino Chevy Chase
cameo appearances =Jennifer Syme Jessicka Keanu Reeves
director =Scott Coffey
producer =Scott Coffey Naomi Watts
movie_music =
editing =Matt Chesse
distributor =Strand Releasing
released = 2005
runtime = 95 mins.
language = English
music =
awards =
imdb_id = 0436262
budget ="Ellie Parker" is a movie written and directed by
Scott Coffey . The title character, played byNaomi Watts , is a young woman struggling as an actress in Los Angeles.The movie centers on a quote from the prologue to Shakespeare's "Henry V":O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend
The brightest heaven of invention,
A kingdom for a stage, princes to act
And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!"Ellie Parker" began as a 16-millimeter short that was screened at the 2001
Sundance Film Festival . Using a handheld digital camera, writer-director Scott Coffey expanded it into a feature-length film over the next four years. It was released in 2005.Plot
"Ellie Parker" is a
semi-autobiographical story of an Australianactress struggling to make it in Hollywood. Ellie is young enough to still schlep to auditions back and forth across L.A., changing wardrobes and slapping on makeup en route, but just old enough that the future feels "more like a threat than a promise." She lives with her vacuous musician boyfriend (Mark Pellegrino ), who leaves her just about as dissatisfied as any other part of her life, and has a loose definition of the word "fidelity." Helping make sense of their surreal and humiliating Hollywood existence is her best friend Sam (Rebecca Rigg ), another out-of-work actress trying her hand at design, who attends acting classes with Ellie to stay sharp. When Ellie gets into a fender bender with a guy who claims he's a cinematographer (Scott Coffey ), her perspective on her work and the dating world starts to change.Chevy Chase also makes an appearance in this series of Hollywood vignettes, playing Ellie's agent.There is a cameo appearance made byKeanu Reeves and his band Dogstar and abit part played byJessicka Fodera from the band "Scarling. ". in the film. It is speculated that both appear in the film due to the involvement of actressJennifer Syme who was once Reeves' girlfriend and friend to Fodera before she was tragically killed in an automobile accident in the spring of2001 .Origins
Watts, Coffey, and Pellegrino all worked together on
David Lynch 's "Mulholland Drive", where Watts had her breakout performance, and Ellie Parker grew out of the friendship forged between Watts and director/screenwriter Coffey. It was shot ondigital video over the course of five years, having begun its life as a series of shorts featuring Watts' character.External links
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* [http://www.metacritic.com/video/titles/ellieparker Metacritic reviews: "Ellie Parker"]
* [http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/ellieparker/ "Ellie Parker" trailer]
* [http://www.strandreleasing.com/In_Theaters_Details.asp_Q_id_E_189 "Ellie Parker" @ strandreleasing.com]
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