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Ellie Parker
Strand Releasing
MPAA RATING: Not Rated
Starring
Naomi Watts,
Chevy Chase,
Scott Coffey,
Fanshen Cox,
Blair Mastbaum,
Mark Pellegrino,
and
Rebecca Rigg
In a tour-de-force performance, Naomi Watts captures the rhythms, trials and tribulations of an actor caught up in the whirlwind of her career before retreating to a personal life that is as chaotic as her professional one. (Strand Releasing)
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Scott Coffey
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Scott Coffey
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: April 11, 2006
Theatrical: November 11, 2005
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| RUNNING TIME: |
95 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |
Nominated, Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic), 2005 Sundance Film Festival

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83
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Gianni Truzzi
Watts and Coffey may have vaulted Hollywood's gated enclaves, but this affectionate film shows they haven't forgotten, nor idealized, their days among the ranks of the struggling and ambitious.

83
Portland Oregonian
M. E. Russell
Watts is a champ for seeing this through now that she's actually famous.

80
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Ellie Parker is at once hilarious and harrowing, and in being so, seems right on target.

80
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
The sharpest, most authentic portrait of Hollywood life made in the last several years. (As a movie about contemporary Los Angeles, it's approximately 617 percent better than the monumentally bogus "Shopgirl.")

75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
A good movie, fearless and true, observant and merciless. Naomi Watts was brave to make it and gifted to make it so well.

70
LA Weekly
Ella Taylor
Fun, scattershot Hollywood spoof.

67
Entertainment Weekly
Scott Brown
Coffey, a tart comic mind who should cast his net farther from the 405, pads his story with more and more familiar degradations, and Watts plays each one to the hilt.

63
Chicago Tribune
Jessica Reaves
Welcome to the world of Ellie Parker, a faux-documentary and big, fat raspberry dedicated to L.A.'s underclass.

63
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Eventually the energy of the original short runs out and the movie coasts on fumes, but it remains surprisingly enjoyable for all that.

60
Empire
Patrick Peters
A splendid performance by Naomi Watts holds together this smart and astutely restrained lampoon of life in the Hollywood basement.

60
Film Threat
Bob Westal
A rare pleasure.

50
The Hollywood Reporter
James Greenberg
A splendid idea for a film goes largely wasted despite a brave performance by Naomi Watts as a struggling actress trying to figure it all out in Hollywood.

50
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
For Ms. Watts, it is a small, brave acting tour de force.

50
Village Voice
Melissa Anderson
A clumsy spoof of Hollywood, EP always roots for its hapless heroine. But where this trifle fascinates most is in its connections to David Lynch's masterpiece.

50
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
Most of the gags misfire, though some scenes are memorably tawdry.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Neva Chonin
Can't sustain its narrative for a full 95 minutes.

40
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Watts is in nearly every frame of the movie, so if you're a fan (and you should be) that's the reason to see this.

40
Variety
Todd McCarthy
Without Watts, Scott Coffey's feature-length expansion of his identically titled short wouldn't amount to much.

38
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Watts is good -- occasionally very good -- and her willingness to be filmed at unflattering angles, in pore-wallowing or with bright blue ice cream smeared on her face is admirable.

30
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Nathan Rabin
It almost seems that Watts made a movie this intentionally scuzzy and low-rent as a severe form of penance to the gods of authenticity for the sin of making millions jet-setting around the world appearing in big, glamorous super-productions. But she goes too far in making the audience suffer as well.

25
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
Shot on digital video, made on the run whenever Watts was available between gigs, the movie is a pointless, tedious eyesore.

25
New York Post
Kyle Smith
Naomi Watts is the only explanation for the existence of the student-y digital video feature Ellie Parker.


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