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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
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Scott Coffey
Written by	Scott Coffey
Produced by	Scott Coffey Naomi Watts
Starring	Naomi Watts Rebecca Rigg Scott Coffey Mark Pellegrino Chevy Chase
Cinematography	Scott Coffey Blair Mastbaum
Edited by	Matt Chesse
Music by	Neil Jackson BC Smith
Production companies	Strand Releasing Kailua Productions
Distributed by	Dream Entertainment Strand Releasing
Release dates	November 11, 2005 (2005-11-11) (United States; limited)
Running time	95 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$4 million[1]
Box office	$45,726[2]

Plot

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 (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 is a cinematographer (Scott Coffey), her perspective on her work and the dating world starts to change. Chevy Chase also makes an appearance playing Ellie's agent.

Cast

• Naomi Watts as Ellie Parker
• Rebecca Rigg as Sam
• Scott Coffey as Chris
• Mark Pellegrino as Justin
• Chevy Chase as Dennis Swartzbaum
• Jennifer Syme as Casting Chick
• Jessicka as Acting Class Student
• Keanu Reeves as Dogstar bassist (himself)

Production

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 and screenwriter Coffey. It was shot on digital video over the course of five years, having begun its life as a series of shorts featuring Watts' character.^{[citation needed]}

The film centers on a quote from the prologue to William 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!

References

External links

• Ellie Parker at IMDb
• Ellie Parker at Rotten Tomatoes
• Ellie Parker trailer

На других языках

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[de] Ellie Parker

Ellie Parker ist eine US-amerikanische Filmkomödie von Scott Coffey aus dem Jahr 2005 mit Naomi Watts in der Titelrolle. Zwei Nebenrollen sind mit den bekannten Hollywoodgrößen Chevy Chase und Keanu Reeves besetzt.

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- [en] Ellie Parker

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[ru] Элли Паркер

«Э́лли Па́ркер» — американская независимая малобюджетная драма с элементами комедии, вышедшая в 2005 году. Фильм снят актёром и режиссёром Скоттом Коффи, который выступил также как оператор и продюсер и сыграл одну из ролей. В заглавной роли — Наоми Уоттс, также продюсировавшая картину.

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