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Ellie Parker

Mixed or average reviews
Based on 22 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy
Written by: Scott Coffey
Directed by: Scott Coffey
Release Date:
Theatrical: November 11, 2005
DVD: April 11, 2006
Running Time: 95 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
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)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
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.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian M. E. Russell
Watts is a champ for seeing this through now that she's actually famous.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
Ellie Parker is at once hilarious and harrowing, and in being so, seems right on target.
Read Full Review >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.")
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Jessica Reaves
Welcome to the world of Ellie Parker, a faux-documentary and big, fat raspberry dedicated to L.A.'s underclass.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Empire Patrick Peters
A splendid performance by Naomi Watts holds together this smart and astutely restrained lampoon of life in the Hollywood basement.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Stephen Holden
For Ms. Watts, it is a small, brave acting tour de force.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader J.R. Jones
Most of the gags misfire, though some scenes are memorably tawdry.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Neva Chonin
Can't sustain its narrative for a full 95 minutes.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Variety Todd McCarthy
Without Watts, Scott Coffey's feature-length expansion of his identically titled short wouldn't amount to much.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >New York Post Kyle Smith
Naomi Watts is the only explanation for the existence of the student-y digital video feature Ellie Parker.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 4.6 (out of 10) based on 5 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Paul D. gave it a5:
Excellent performance by Naomi Watts, who dominates the screen, but the script is just too weak.
Keeun J. gave it an8:
What low budget film is all about. Great characters and the acting is goofy yet realistic. Naomi Watts is great; subtle and able to convey the schizo world of the actor. The only weak link was Coffey putting himself in the film. Using another actor would have been better, the commentary is very interesting.
Adrian L. gave it a0:
Simply awful!
Harold G gave it a9:
Entertaining and delightful. Watts proves that she is unmistakably outstanding in any role she assumes.
Kris gave it a1:
This was a disappointing waste of time. Naomi Watts is occasionally funny, but doesn't make her character sympathetic enough for us to care whether she makes it in Hollywood or not.
