Screening Party

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.

Cast

Dennis Hensley

Dennis Hensley

as Dennis

Erin Quill

Erin Quill

as Lauren

Tony Tripoli

Tony Tripoli

as Tony

Felix Pire

Felix Pire

as Marcos

Ossie Beck

Ossie Beck

as Ross

Nora Burns

Nora Burns

as Dr. Beverly Beaverman

Chil Kong

Chil Kong

as Barry

Todd Christian Hunter

Todd Christian Hunter

as Danny Dancer

Eli Eagle

Eli Eagle

as Peter

Justin Marco

Justin Marco

as Young Dennis

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