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A hilarious comic portrait of a young woman's struggle for integrity, happiness, and a Hollywood acting career.A hilarious comic portrait of a young woman's struggle for integrity, happiness, and a Hollywood acting career.A hilarious comic portrait of a young woman's struggle for integrity, happiness, and a Hollywood acting career.
- Awards
- 2 wins & 1 nomination
Greg Freitas
- Rick Saul
- (as Gregory Frietas)
Robbi Chong
- Acting Student
- (as Robby Chong)
Whitfield Crane
- Acting Student
- (as Whitt Crane)
Brian McCardie
- Acting Student
- (as Brian Mcardie)
Bret Domrose
- Dogstar
- (as Brent Domrose)
- Director
- Writer
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- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaNaomi Watts filmed her scenes in between takes while working on the film The Ring Two (2005).
- GoofsNear the end of the movie as Ellie enters the hotel for an audition, the cameraman is reflected in the glass door.
- Crazy creditsThe opening credits are presented as if part of a script.
- Alternate versionsOriginally a 16 minute short that premiered at the 2001 Sundance film festival. Director/writer Scott Coffey and Naomi Watts shot more footage to create the feature length film, with the same title (2005).
- ConnectionsEdited from Ellie Parker (2001)
Featured review
Watts Wows, Movie Flops
Scott Coffey's Life of A Lower-Rung Hollywood Nitwit, Ellie Parker, is interesting only as a showcase for the shape-shifter charms of Naomi Watts, a performing chameleon with an endless repertoire of faces (sultry, girlish, devious, ravishing, vacant). The film might actually be more worthwhile, and would certainly be more bearable, with the sound off, sparing us the interminable feather-headed nattering of its deliberately shallow, narcissistic characters, and allowing us to concentrate more fully on the thespic acrobatics of Watts, who, through the character of struggling, stubborn, wayward Ellie Parker, is afforded a chance to show off her near-freakish ability at sudden metamorphosis, going from harried phone-talking California twit to foul-mouthed gum-chomping Jersey girl and back, working the shift, the brakes like a race-car driver navigating the twists and turns of Watkins Glen. It's a show-off performance but Watts is not a show-off, she occupies the character of Ellie Parker fully, never tipping her hand. Her commitment to the role is commendable, her willingness to place herself in absurd situations, to unmask herself a little (some of Ellie's struggles are no doubt culled from Watts' own biography), but it's all in service of material that's not worthy of her, that cheapens her accomplishment, diminishes her. It's a thin gruel of a movie, lacking in insight, full of scenes that don't go anywhere, shot like a film student making an audition reel.
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $34,410
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $10,299
- Nov 11, 2005
- Runtime1 hour 35 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.78 : 1
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