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Sep 29, 2022 · Together, Gary Valentine ( Cooper Hoffman) and Alana Kane (Valley native Alana Haim) travel around Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley by car, truck and on foot. Their ventures into showbiz...
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In 1973 San Fernando Valley, 15-year-old actor Gary Valentine meets Alana Kane, a 25-year-old photographer's assistant, at his school picture day. She is put off by his invitation to dinner that evening, but shows up anyway. When Gary's mother Anita cannot chaperone him on a press tour performance in New York City, he invites Alana to do it. Alana ...
Haim's sisters Danielle and Este, father Moti, and mother Donna also appear as Alana Kane's family. Appearing as Gary's friends are Griff Giacchino as Mark, James Kelley as Tim, and Will Angarola as Kirk. The children of Anderson and Rudolph, as well as the relatives and children of other filmmakers and cast members, also appear in brief roles. Joh...
Development
Around 2001, Anderson was walking by a middle school in Los Angeles on picture day. He observed one of the students nagging the female photographer and had an idea of the student having a romantic relationship with the photographer. The screenplay of Licorice Pizza evolved from this experience and additional stories told to Anderson by his friend Gary Goetzman, who was a child actor who had starred in the film Yours, Mine and Ours with Lucille Ball, appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, and event...
Casting
Anderson wrote the screenplay with Alana Haim in mind and offered her the lead role in summer 2019. He has a close connection to her band Haim, having directed several of their music videos, and is a close friend of the Haim family. Haim's sisters Este and Danielle and parents Mordechai and Donna were also cast to play her character's family. Cooper Hoffman, the son of Philip Seymour Hoffman, was cast late in the process after Anderson found the auditioning young actors too "precocious" and "...
Filming
Principal photography began in Encino, California, in August 2020, under the working title Soggy Bottom which, in the film, is the initial name of Gary's waterbed business. In November 2020, it was reported that principal photography had wrapped and post-production had begun. A Tudor Revival manor previously owned by actor Lyle Waggoner was used for scenes at Jon Peters's house. Tail o' the Cock, a local restaurant that was demolished in 1987, was recreated for the film at the Van Nuys Golf C...
Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood composed the film's score cues. The first trailer for the film, which was released online on September 27, 2021, was set to David Bowie's "Life on Mars?",which also is featured in the film. The film's official soundtrack was released by Republic Records. Included are many of the period songs featured in the film, as well...
In December 2019, Focus Features, which had financed and released Anderson's previous film Phantom Thread, came on to produce and distribute the film. However, in July 2020, it was reported that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer had acquired the film's distribution rights from Focus, presumably due to budgetary issues, and that MGM would set a new start date due...
Box office
Licorice Pizza grossed $17.3 million in the United States and Canada, and $15.9 million in other territories, for a worldwide box office total of $33.2 million. Deadline Hollywoodreported the film lost money for the studio, though did note it "brought a pulse to arthouses during a downbeat time". The film opened in four theaters on November 26, 2021, including the Regency Village Theatrein Los Angeles. It made $335,000 its opening weekend, for an average of $83,800 per screen. Audiences were...
Critical response
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 91% of 317 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 8.3/10. The website's consensus reads: "Licorice Pizza finds Paul Thomas Anderson shifting into a surprisingly comfortable gear – and getting potentially star-making performances out of his fresh-faced leads." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 90 out of 100, based on 55 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". Audiences polled by PostTrakg...
Licorice Pizza at IMDbLicorice Pizza at Rotten TomatoesMay 31, 2022 · Licorice Pizza documents the misadventures, tumultuous friendship, and romance of Alana Kane, a photographer’s assistant in her mid-20s, and Gary Valentine, a 15-year-old actor, and entrepreneur.
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Dec 25, 2021 · Licorice Pizza: Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. With Will Angarola, Griff Giacchino, James Kelley, Cooper Hoffman. The story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine growing up, running around and going through the treacherous navigation of first love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.
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- Paul Thomas Anderson
- 2021-12-25
Jun 3, 2022 · Gary and Alana finally kiss and embrace at the end of Licorice Pizza, suggesting their romance is official. However, it doesn’t seem like Gary and Alana would become a real couple.
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Sep 29, 2022 · In “Licorice Pizza,” a teenage boy perpetually chasing after new business schemes falls for a 20-something woman who’s not quite sure where she’s heading, but is up for the ride. Together, Gary...
Nov 26, 2021 · Paul Thomas Anderson’s coming-of-age film ‘Licorice Pizza’ follows Gary Valentine and Alana Kane, a 15-year old and a photographer’s assistant in her 20s respectively, who starts a waterbed company together. Gary’s attraction towards Alana leads them together to the heart of Los Angeles of the 1970s, as they participate in film ...
