Screening Party

Story

Synopsis

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.

Director

Chil Kong

Writers

Dennis Hensley

Language

English

Country

United States of America

Release date

21 June 2008

Budget

$10,000

Ensemble

Cast

• Dennis Hensley

  Dennis

• Erin Quill

  Lauren

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  Tony Tripoli

  Tony

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  Felix Pire

  Marcos

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  Ossie Beck

  Ross

• Nora Burns

  Dr. Beverly Beaverman

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  Chil Kong

  Barry

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  Todd Christian Hunter

  Danny Dancer

• Eli Eagle

  Peter

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  Justin Marco

  Young Dennis

• Bob McEwen

  Mr. H.

• Debbie Praver

  Bronx Chick 1