Ellie Parker
Ellie Parker is a 2005 American dramacomedy film, written and directed by Scott Coffey. The title character, played by Naomi Watts, is a young woman struggling as an actress in Los Angeles. The movie centers on a quote from the prologue to Shakespeares Henry V
Ellie Parker is a semiautobiographical story of an Australian actress struggling to make it in Hollywood. Ellie is young enough to still go to auditions back and forth across L.A., 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 outofwork 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 hes a cinematographer Scott Coffey, her perspective on her work and the dating world starts to change. Chevy Chase also makes an appearance in this series of Hollywood vignettes, playing Ellies agent.Watts, Coffey, and Pellegrino all worked together on David Lynchs 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. ........
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