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''Hit and Runway'' is a 1999 American
comedy film A comedy film is a category of film which emphasizes humor. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement. Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending (black comedy being an exception). Comedy is one of the ol ...
directed by Christopher Livingston.Emanuel Levy
"Hit and Runway"
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'', May 17, 1999. The film is a
buddy comedy A comedy film is a category of film which emphasizes humor. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement. Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending (black comedy being an exception). Comedy is one of the olde ...
centred on the work relationship between Alex Andero (Michael Parducci), a young heterosexual Italian-American waiter, and Elliot Springer (
Peter Jacobson Peter Jacobson (born March 24, 1965) is an American actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Dr. Chris Taub on the Fox medical drama series ''House''. He also starred on the USA Network science fiction drama ''Colony'' as former Proxy Snyd ...
), an older gay Jewish playwright, who meet and become friends despite their differences as they collaborate on Alex's idea for a screenplay about an undercover police officer posing as a fashion model.Michael Wilmington
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'', September 17, 2001. The film was partially inspired by Livingston and cowriter Jaffe Cohen's own process of trying to hammer out their own differences as they began to collaborate on what would become the film's screenplay.Jon Matsumoto, "Using Differences as Grist for Their Script". ''
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'', March 2, 2001. It won best screenplay at the 1999
Los Angeles Independent Film Festival The LA Film Festival was an annual film festival that was held in Los Angeles, California, and usually took place in June. It showcased independent, international, feature, documentary and short films, as well as web series, music videos, episod ...
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* 1999 films Films about screenwriters 1999 comedy films Films about LGBT and Judaism 1990s English-language films American comedy films 1999 LGBT-related films American LGBT-related films LGBT-related buddy comedy films {{1990s-comedy-film-stub