Strangers with Candy (film)
Strangers with Candy is a 2005 comedy film released by THINKFilm, first screened at the Sundance Film Festival. It serves as a prequel to the TV series of the same name. Among the executive producers was David Letterman.
Jerri joins Chuck Noblets Stephen Colbert science fair team, the Fig Neutrons, along with her new friends, Megawatti Sucarnaputri Carlo Alban a spoof on Megawati Sukarnoputri and Tammi Littlenut Maria Thayer. Noblet is not pleased to learn that Principal Onyx Blackman Greg Hollimon has hired a ringer for their team, Roger Beekman Matthew Broderick, to ensure that Flatpoint wins, and so Noblet creates a second team. As she struggles to fit in and make her teammates proud, Jerri discovers that though the faces may have changed, the hassles of high school are just the same.Sedaris admitted in an interview that they never intended on making a film after the series was cancelled, stating, Paul, Steve, and I were working on our book Wigfield ... We kept coming up with funny Jerri Blank stuff to say, so it would go into a file, and by the end of the book, Paul opened the file and there was all this Blank stuff, and he said, Oh, it would be so funny to write a movie. Thats really how it happened. ........
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