Screening Party

Screening Party (2008)

21/06/2008
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.

  • Chil KongDirector
  • Dennis HensleyWriter
  • Status

    Released

  • Original Language

    English

  • Budget

    $10,000

Keywords

  • sexuality
  • parody
  • friends
  • male prostitution
  • psychiatrist
  • video store
  • reenactment
  • pretty woman
  • get together
  • film critic
  • freelance journalist
  • gay theme
  • party

Top Billed Cast

Dennis Hensley

Dennis

Erin Quill

Lauren

Tony Tripoli

Tony Tripoli

Tony

Felix Pire

Felix Pire

Marcos

Ossie Beck

Ossie Beck

Ross

Nora Burns

Dr. Beverly Beaverman

Chil Kong

Chil Kong

Barry

Todd Christian Hunter

Todd Christian Hunter

Danny Dancer

Eli Eagle

Peter

Justin Marco

Justin Marco

Young Dennis

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