Screening Party (2008)

  • NR
  • 06/21/2008 (US)
  • Comedy
  • 25m

Movies are life.

Overview

When journalist Dennis gets assigned to write about Pretty Woman for Marquee magazine's “Hooray for Hollywood Hookers” issue, he invites five friends over to screen, celebrate and skewer the modern-day Cinderella story. The partiers include his roommate Tony, a burnt-out cruise ship crooner who's desperately looking for a new gig on land; Lauren, a relationship-challenged aspiring stand-up comic; Marcos, a sweet-natured attorney who never met a tangent he couldn't go off on; Ross, an Opera-loving video clerk with multiple tattoos and arsenal of movie fun facts at the ready; and Dr. Beverly Beaverman, the shrink next door who finds Freudian psychological meanings in everything she sees. Together, they do their best to make sense of the 1990 Richard Gere-Julia Roberts romantic comedy classic while discovering that the movie's themes—sex, money, sex for money—resonate in their lives in ways both ridiculous and profound.

Dennis Hensley

Writer

Chil Kong

Director

Cast

Dennis Hensley's headshot

Dennis Hensley

Dennis
Erin Quill's headshot

Erin Quill

Lauren
Tony Tripoli's headshot

Tony Tripoli

Tony
Felix Pire's headshot

Felix Pire

Marcos
Ossie Beck's headshot

Ossie Beck

Ross
Nora Burns's headshot

Nora Burns

Dr. Beverly Beaverman
Chil Kong's headshot

Chil Kong

Barry
Todd Christian Hunter's headshot

Todd Christian Hunter

Danny Dancer

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