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Pizza (2005 Film)
''Pizza'' is a 2005 coming-of-age comedy film written and directed by Mark Christopher, filmed in and around Milford, Pennsylvania, in 2003. It was screened at the Seattle International Film Festival on May 27, 2005, and had a limited release on January 20, 2006. The region 1 DVD was released on October 24, 2006. Plot Cara-Ethyl (Kylie Sparks) is an eccentric and sheltered girl on the eve of her eighteenth birthday who desperately dreams of an exciting life. But she's left with her blind, clueless (but well-meaning) mother (Julie Hagerty), a pest of a brother and made-up friends (Cara pretends she has a friend for her mother). All that is changed when the pizza man, Matt Firenze (Ethan Embry), comes to the door. Soon, Cara persuades Matt to allow her to go with him on his deliveries. As the night progresses, Cara-Ethyl and Matt impart their wisdom and learn from each other, and both are forced to evaluate their lives. Cast *Ethan Embry as Matt Firenze *Kylie Sparks as Cara-Ethyl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Christopher (director)
Mark Christopher (born July 8, 1963, in Fort Dodge, Iowa) is a screenwriter, and director most known for directing '' 54'' (1998), starring Ryan Phillippe, Mike Meyers, Salma Hayek, and Neve Campbell. Within the film community, he is better known for the success of the director's cut of the film that premiered at the 2015 Berlin International Film Festival. With over 30 minutes of re-shoots cut out of the 1998 version, and over 40 minutes re-instated, the film was universally lauded by critics and hailed as a "jubilant resurrection" and "a lost gay classic." The story of the films destruction and resurrection was featured on ''New York'' magazine's Vulture.com website. and ''The Guardian'' and Elvis Mitchell's interview with Mark Christopher on KCRW's ''The Treatment''. Christopher also directed three short films, all of them theatrically distributed: ''The Dead Boys Club'' (1992), an influential short of the New Queer Cinema "New Queer Cinema" is a term first coined by th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marylouise Burke
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2005 Comedy Films
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American Coming-of-age Comedy Films
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2000s Coming-of-age Comedy Films
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Origin Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a phoneme, so the derived Greek letter sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter ''samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ) "to hiss". The original name of the letter "sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the complica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 Films
2005 in film is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, festivals, a list of country-specific lists of films released, notable deaths and film debuts. Evaluation of the year Renowned American film critic and professor Emanuel Levy stated on his website, "Despite films like “Crash,” which deals with racism in contemporary America, and geopolitical exposes like ''Syriana'' and ''Munich'', the 2005 movie year may go down in film history as the year of sexual diversity." He went on to emphasize, "It's hard to recall a year in which sex, sexuality, and gender have featured so prominently in American films, both mainstream Hollywood and independent cinema. I am deliberately using the concepts of sexual diversity and sexual orientation, rather than gay-themed movies, because the rather new phenomenon goes beyond homosexuality or lesbianism. For decades, American culture has been both puritanical and hypocritical as far as sexual matters are con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jesse McCartney
Jesse McCartney (born April 9, 1987) is an American actor and singer. He achieved fame in the late 1990s on the daytime drama ''All My Children'' as JR Chandler. He later joined boy band Dream Street, and eventually branched out into a solo musical career. Additionally, McCartney has appeared on shows such as ''Law & Order: SVU'', ''Summerland (TV series), Summerland'', and ''Greek (TV series), Greek.'' McCartney also is known for lending his voice as Theodore in ''Alvin and the Chipmunks (film), Alvin and the Chipmunks'' and its sequels, as well as voicing JoJo McDodd in ''Horton Hears a Who (film), Horton Hears a Who'', Dick Grayson, Robin/Nightwing (Dick Grayson), Nightwing in ''Young Justice (TV series), Young Justice'', and Roxas (Kingdom Hearts), Roxas and Ventus (Kingdom Hearts), Ventus in the video game series ''Kingdom Hearts'' developed by Square Enix. Early life McCartney was born in Ardsley, New York, Ardsley, Westchester, New York, the son of Ginger McCartney and Sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessica Dunphy
Jessica Dunphy (born October 23, 1984) is an American actress. Originally from Glenside, Pennsylvania, Dunphy's most prominent roles include Devin Pillsbury on ''The Sopranos'' and Alison Stewart on the soap opera ''As the World Turns'' from 2002 to 2005. She has also appeared in the films ''Storytelling'' (2001) and ''Pizza Pizza (, ) is a dish of Italian origin consisting of a usually round, flat base of leavened wheat-based dough topped with tomatoes, cheese, and often various other ingredients (such as various types of sausage, anchovies, mushrooms, onions ...'' (2005). Filmography Film Television References External links * 1984 births American soap opera actresses Living people People from Montgomery County, Pennsylvania 21st-century American women {{US-tv-actor-1980s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Easton
John Richard Easton (March 22, 1933 – December 2, 2019) was a Canadian actor, best known for his portrayal of Brian Hammond in the 1970s BBC serial '' The Brothers''. Life and career Easton was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, the son of Mary Louise (née Withington) and Leonard Idell Easton, a civil engineer. He started acting in a children's theatre group before moving, at the age of seventeen, to Ottawa to work in a weekly repertory theatre. Easton has performed in a number of stage productions, as well as various film roles. He also had television guest appearances on ''Doctor Who'', ''L.A. Law'', ''Frasier'', and '' Ed''. In 2002, Easton starred in the title role in a three-part documentary, ''Benjamin Franklin'', on PBS. Between 2005 and 2011, Easton appeared as Benjamin Franklin in a series of commercials and videos about Freemasonry, produced for the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts A.F. & A.M. On October 18, 2006, while performing Tom Stoppard's ''The Coast of Utopia'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judah Friedlander
Judah Friedlander (born March 16, 1969) is an American actor and comedian, known for playing the role of writer Frank Rossitano on the NBC sitcom ''30 Rock''. Friedlander is also known for his role as Toby Radloff in the film ''American Splendor'', a role that garnered him favorable reviews and a nomination for best supporting actor at the 2004 Independent Spirit Awards. Earlier in his career, he was recognized as "the hug guy" from the music video for the 2001 Dave Matthews Band single "Everyday". Friedlander is known for his distinctive look, which includes oversized glasses, shaggy hair, and a t-shirt and trucker hat (both often emblazoned with slogans such as "world champion"), and a generally unkempt appearance. It is a look he maintains as a stand-up comedian, during most of his public appearances, and which he has employed in some of his acting roles. Early life Friedlander was born in Gaithersburg, Maryland, the son of Shirley and Art Friedlander. His father was of Russia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethan Embry
Ethan Embry (born June 13, 1978) is an American film and television actor. He is known for his role as Mark in ''Empire Records'', Preston in ''Can't Hardly Wait'', The Bass Player in ''That Thing You Do!'', and as Bobby Ray in ''Sweet Home Alabama''. Career Embry (originally credited as Ethan Randall) started acting at the age of 12. After making his debut in ''Defending Your Life'' (1991), he starred in several films, including ''Dutch'' (1991), '' All I Want for Christmas'' (1991), '' A Far Off Place'' (1993), ''Empire Records'' (1995), ''That Thing You Do!'' (1996), '' Vegas Vacation'' (1997), and the teen comedy ''Can't Hardly Wait'' (1998). In 2002, Embry appeared as Bobby Ray opposite Reese Witherspoon in ''Sweet Home Alabama''. He had a major role in Showtime's ''Brotherhood'', which premiered in 2006. In 2013, Embry had a recurring role as Greg Mendell on the television series ''Once Upon a Time''. In 2015, Embry had a guest role as Carter on '' The Walking Dead''. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexis Dziena
Alexis Gabrielle Dziena (born July 8, 1984) is an American actress. Early life Dziena was born in New York City and is of Irish, Italian and Polish descent. She attended the private Saint Ann's School alongside her ''Bringing Rain'' (2003) costar, Paz de la Huerta. She spent many of her summers growing up in the small South Jersey shore town of Sea Isle City. Also, during high school, she attended classes at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and appeared in plays there as well. Career Television Dziena made her acting debut in TNT's ''Witchblade'' (2002). Guest roles followed in other series, such as ''Law & Order'', '' Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'', and ''Joan of Arcadia''. One of her first major roles was in the Lifetime channel original film ''She's Too Young'' (2004), in which she portrayed a sexually active teenager. In the ABC television series ''Invasion'', she played the sheriff's daughter, Kira Underlay. Dziena also appeared frequently on the sixth season ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
