Ellie Parker (2005)
Ellie Parker is a 2005 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Scott Coffey. It stars Naomi Watts in the title role, a young woman struggling as an actress in Los Angeles. Ellie Parker began as a short film 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 at various times over the next four years. It was finally released in 2005.
Ellie Parker is the story of an Australian actress struggling to make it in Hollywood. Ellie is young enough to still go to auditions back and forth across Los Angeles, 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, 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, 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 is a cinematographer, her perspective on her work and the dating world starts to change.
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Cast:  Naomi WattsEllie Parker  Rebecca RiggSam  Scott CoffeyChris  Mark PellegrinoJustin  Chevy ChaseDennis Swartzbaum  Jennifer SymeCasting Chick |
Ellie Parker is a 2005 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Scott Coffey. It stars Naomi Watts in the title role, a young woman struggling as an actress in Los Angeles. Ellie Parker began as a short film 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 at various times over the next four years. It was finally released in 2005.
Ellie Parker is the story of an Australian actress struggling to make it in Hollywood. Ellie is young enough to still go to auditions back and forth across Los Angeles, 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, 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, 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 is a cinematographer, her perspective on her work and the dating world starts to change.
