Strangers with Candy (film)
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Strangers With Candy | |
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Directed by | Paul Dinello |
Produced by | Jennifer Boot |
Written by | Amy Sedaris, Stephen Colbert, Paul Dinello, Mitch Rouse |
Starring | Amy Sedaris, Stephen Colbert, Paul Dinello, Greg Hollimon |
Music by | Lodge Worster |
Cinematography | Oliver Bokelberg |
Distributed by | ThinkFilm |
Running time | 97 min. |
Country | USA |
Language | English |
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Strangers With Candy is a film released in 2006 by ThinkFilm, first screened at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. It is a prequel to the TV show Strangers with Candy. Among the executive producers was David Letterman.
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[edit] Synopsis
Jerri Blank, a former high school dropout and drug addict, is just released from prison. When advised to pick up her life exactly where she left off, Blank takes it literally and decides to go back to high school. Blank learns that her mother died during her absence and her father is in a coma.
Jerri gets involved with popular jock Brason and joins science teacher Chuck Noblet's (Stephen Colbert) science fair team, the Fig Neutrons (along with Megawatti Sucarnaputri (a spoof on Megawati Sukarnoputri) and Tammi Littlenut). Noblet is not pleased to learn that Flatpoint's Principal Onyx Blackman (Greg Hollimon) has hired a ringer for their team to ensure that Flatpoint wins and creates a second team. Jerri also has to put up with her resentful stepmother Sara Blank (Deborah Rush) and annoying half-brother Derrick (Joseph Cross), deal with her father's illness, and try to fit in with the popular girls.
[edit] Production
Writer/star Amy Sedaris admitted in an interview that they never intended on making a film after the series was cancelled, stating, "Paul, Steve, and I were working on our book Wigfield ... We kept coming up with funny Jerri Blank stuff to say, so it would go into a file, and by the end of the book, Paul opened the file and there was all this Blank stuff, and he said, 'Oh, it would be so funny to write a movie.' That's really how it happened."[1]
[edit] Cast
The film's cast includes:
- Amy Sedaris
- Stephen Colbert
- Dan Hedaya
- Allison Janney
- Ian Holm
- Joseph Cross
- Kristen Johnston
- Paul Dinello
The film also features small roles from several major stars:
[edit] Characters not returning
- Orlando Pabotoy chose not to reprise his role as Orlando Pinotubo because he was tired of the character being the subject of racist jokes. [citation needed]
- Larc Spies did not return for the role of Derrick Blank because, according to Amy Sedaris, "he looks like a longshoreman now."
Several other characters were re-cast because the original actors looked too old to believeably play high schoolers.
[edit] References
- ^ Gillette, Amelie. "The Onion A.V. Club Interview: Amy Sedaris", AVClub.com June 28, 2006.