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Ellie Parker
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Ellie Parker is a movie 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 Shakespeare's Henry V:
O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend
The brightest heaven of invention,
A kingdom for a stage, princes to act
And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!
Ellie Parker began as a 16-millimeter short that was screened at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival. Using a handheld digital camera, writer-director Scott Coffey expanded it into a feature-length film over the next four years. It was released in 2005.
Contents
- 1 Synopsis
- 2 Origins
- 3 Trivia
- 4 External links
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Synopsis
Ellie Parker, a semi-autobiographical story of an Australian actress struggling to make it in Hollywood. Ellie is young enough to still schlep 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 vacant 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 out-of-work 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 he's 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 Ellie's agent.
Origins
Watts, Coffey, and Pellegrino all worked together on
David Lynch's
Mulholland Drive, where Watts had her breakout performance, and Ellie Parker grew out of the friendship forged between Watts and
director/
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.
Trivia
- There is a cameo appearance made by Keanu Reeves and his band Dogstar and a bit part played by Jessicka Fodera from the band Scarling. in the film. It is speculated that both appear in the film due to the involvement of actress Jennifer Syme who was once Reeves' girlfriend and friend to Fodera before she was tragically killed in an automobile accident in the spring of 2001.
- Ellie Parker marks Jennifer Syme's last film appearance and only major role.
