Ellie Parker Page #2

Synopsis: Slice of life look at a young woman trying to make it as an actress in Hollywood. Ellie Parker, from Australia, works hard: she's gifted with accents, hustles to auditions, changes clothes and makeup as she drives across L.A., goes to acting classes and therapy, maintains a friendship with another Aussie searching for the same roles, meets a cinematographer when he bangs into her car at a stop sign, and faces a failing relationship with her slacker thinks-he's-a-musician boyfriend. All this brings on an identity crisis - who am I, and should I keep trying to be an actress? Ellie's balancing act and her inquiry into self carry the story.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Scott Coffey
Production: Strand Releasing
  2 wins & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
5.7
Metacritic:
51
Rotten Tomatoes:
50%
R
Year:
2005
95 min
Website
1,051 Views


I just wasn't like... sure.

I did this like weird hair

and make-up...

It looks great.

No, I really like it.

A junkie whore.

I should be talking in my American

accent, my New Yorker accent.

- Not right now. Once we go on tape.

- Okay.

- So, ready?

- Yeah. Is it okay if I stand?

Absolutely, I mean...

Trixie can move around and...

You do what you want.

Don't worry about it

You should stand up with her.

Trixie?

- I'm almost ready. Here we go.

- Ens cap.

Oh, right, here we go.

Ellie Parker.

Okay. I'm ready.

- Goddamn it, you were late!

- There wasn't time!

You try getting from Avenue A to

Belford Stiverson in 10 minutes!

You make time.

Don't make me tell you what

I've just been through, okay?

'Cause Vinnie came home with

blood all over his f***ing shirt!

Don't care if there's blood coming out

of your twat. You f***ing be there.

I was there!

I sucked his cock, Vinnie's cock,

I sucked your f***ing flacid cock!

You were doped up beyond belief,

do you remember?

You know the arrangement, you were

late. We're having dinner at uigi's.

I ain't hungry.

You wouldn't be, you junkie whore.

- That was lovely.

- Are you sure?

We could try it another way,

I mean...

Not for me. Unless you want to.

It was perfect.

In my point of view,

you just nailed it.

Really? Okay. Excellent.

All right, good.

- So, it was nice to see you.

- Well, it was great to see you.

It'd be great to meet the director,

if you think... I love the script.

- You wrote it, right?

- Yeah.

Yeah, it's good.

Okay, all right.

That's it for another day.

Okay, have fun.

- You too.

- Bye.

- We'll get back to you the weekend.

- Okay. I'd love to meet the director.

I know. He's really sorry

he couldn't be here.

All right, see you later. Bye.

Sir, I think it's obviously

quite deliberate.

It was the intention of the artist.

The show is called

"Peripheral Perspectives".

It's supposed to be out of focus.

How could've it gone out of focus

once you got it home?

Would you mind just holding for me

for a minute, please? Dumb f***!

Oh, darling. Bad day?

Ook at you.

Come here.

You're going to be fired if you keep

calling people "stupid fucks".

I hope I get fired so I can just

dedicate myself to my acting.

What's going on?

I don't know who I am.

Nobody knows what they are.

Maybe what you do is who you are.

But I don't know what I'm doing!

Maybe I don't know who I am or...

what I'm doing.

I don't know how anyone

can have a sense of self in this...

fractured modern time

of mediate...

tiranized, fascist, body-obsessed...

global domination,

political turmoil, human...

- Okay, Sam.

... this time of human depravity...

Sam, okay, okay, okay, stop.

Are you okay?

Yeah.

- What the f*** is that?

- Don't even try to understand it.

It's pretty sophisticated piece.

- Go f*** yourself.

- What if I could.

Oh, God, I got another audition.

What for?

I don't know, some WB show.

"Undercover Gimnasts".

Ove you.

Well, why aren't I

going out on that?

Thank you!

We want you

If your lover's cold

Hey, baby, I didn't know

that you were home.

I wasn't. Did you notice that?

I like your hair. I like that.

I like the radiating things, and

the antennas, and the butterflies.

That's really nice, I like that.

Pink and blue. It's like male/female.

Are you alright?

What?

What did I say? I liked it.

I didn't say I didn't like it.

What?

What's the matter?

Are you mad at me or something?

You wanna talk about it?

I think you broke

my nose here. Hello?

- Come on, man?

- No! You come on, Justin!

- "You come on".

- You're a f***ing wanker!

I'm a f***ing wanker.

I'm kidding. What are you

so pissed off about?

Come on, don't you wanna play?

F***!

Come on!

Man, I came up with this

great song. I just finished it.

It's really cool.

It's like this... Got this

ynyrd Skynyrd vibe...

but I threw a little of Darby Crash,

from the Germs in...

and a little bit of like...

There's some Zeppelin, and there's

a little bit of Iggy Pop vibe going.

It kind of goes like this...

Simple pause.

Isn't that f***ing cool?

I love that.

I think it can really work,

you know.

Maybe you can help me come up with

another thing, another riff, like:

"I love you" or "hate you",

whatever...

'cause, you know,

love is about hate too, right?

- It's good, it's good.

- I think so too.

I think I don't want to be

in this relationship anymore.

No, I'm sure I don't wanna be.

But I don't wanna be alone.

I feel suffocated.

What is suffocating you?

This city.

It's that I feel like...

I'm waiting for my life

to start, you know?

Ike what's going on now

is all just like a big rehearsal...

for something bigger.

It's all temporary. It's just...

Maybe I'm scared to start my life.

Are you the part of Ellie that's

scared to let her start her life?

I wore dirty clothes...

and then I smelled...

and because they said...

I looked like a kangaroo.

Thank you for talking to me today.

We'll talk to you again soon, okay?

- Bye-bye.

- Bye.

And I was always on the outside,

always trying to fit in, always...

trying to be accepted, to be

liked and pleasing people.

That's what happens

as an actor in the rooms.

You go into these rooms and...

you audition and you have

to show yourself and...

these people don't like you

and it's like you can't...

you can't be yourself because

you're always being judged.

I wish I could be brave enough

to do that in the audition room.

F***!

Ellie, you have some mascara...

- Here?

Both eyes.

That would've been strange walking

into my next audition...

like that.

Oh, God, I hadn't let go

like that in a long time.

- It's good for you.

- It is. It feels good.

So...

...thank you. It was really good.

- You're welcome.

- I like your sweater.

- Oh, thank you.

- It's nice. Where did you get it?

- At imited.

All right. Oh, good, good.

How much was it?

Oh, gosh... 29 dollars.

That's great. I might just...

Was it just recently?

'Cause I've been looking

for a nice cheap sweater that...

You know, a plain black sweater.

So, Wednesday?

- Thank you.

- Anything else?

- That's great.

- Oh, no.

Oh, my God, I'm gonna cum.

Oh, my God!

Oh, God, yeah, like that.

Gosh, like that.

Oh, God. Ellie!

Hey, you motherf***er!

Hey, baby.

I tried to call your new cell phone.

Were there any calls for me?

No, no, not one.

Ellie...

Yikes!

You f***ing a**hole!

- Oh, my God!

- Ellie, wait!

F***!

Wait!

F***! F***ing...

No, no, no!

Oh, God.

A**hole. F***ing a**hole.

I just f***ing hit somebody.

- I just...

- You're f***ing crazy?

- Ook at my f***ing car!

- I'll call you back.

Oh, my God, look at my car!

What do you...? You're f***ing crazy?

- I just hit somebody.

- Can you get off that phone?

F***ing hell, I'm really sorry.

I didn't see you, I was on my phone.

You shouldn't f***ing drive

while you're talking on the cell.

If you wanna talk, go home.

Don't drive and talk on the phone.

I'm sorry.

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Scott Coffey

Scott Coffey (born Thomas Scott Coffey; May 1, 1967) is an American actor, director, producer and screenwriter. His film credits include Shag, Some Kind of Wonderful, Dream Lover, and Mulholland Drive. He directed Ellie Parker in 2005. more…

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