Rating: NR
Genre:
Comedy Drama
Theatrical Release: 01/20/2005(USA
Release Date: 10/24/2006
SubTitles: English/Espanol
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD2
Run Time: 81 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Adult Humor, Profanity, Sexual Situations
Distributor/Studio: Special Ops Media
Mark Christopher - writer-director of the hit
Miramax drama 54 (1998) - returns to the helmer's chair for the first occasion in eight years with the indie
comedy Pizza, from
IFC Films. An unofficial homage to mid-80s teen films, the picture concerns
Cara-Ethyl (
Kylie Sparks), an overweight high-schooler whose mom (screen vet
Julie Hagerty) lost her sight in a baking accident. Despondent and lonely as her eighteenth birthday arrives and passes - not to mention embarrassed by her lack of friends -
Cara attempts to save face by lying to her mother and pretending that she's expecting a whole host of guests. She then impersonates the "friends" one at a time in front of her mother. When thirty-something pizza delivery guy
Matt turns up,
Cara falls instantly in love; he then invites her to accompany him, into the night, on his pizza route. As
Matt inducts
Cara into the area's social realm - replete with bed-hopping flatmates, deadhead teenage addicts and obstinate employers - a friendship forms between the two.
Joey Kern,
Alexis Dziena and
Judah Friedlander co-star.
~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
;)
