Licorice Pizza

The story of Gary Valentine and Alana Kane growing up, running around and going through the treacherous navigation of first love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.

Cast

Alana Haim

as Alana Kane

Cooper Hoffman

as Gary Valentine

Sean Penn

as Jack Holden

Tom Waits

as Rex Blau

Bradley Cooper

as Jon Peters

Benny Safdie

as Joel Wachs

Skyler Gisondo

as Lance Brannigan

Mary Elizabeth Ellis

as Momma Anita

John Michael Higgins

as Jerry Frick

Christine Ebersole

as Lucille Doolittle

Reviews

garethmb

Set in the San Fernando Valley of 1973; Writer/Director Paul Thomas Anderson has created a loving and nostalgia-filled look at that era with his new film “Licorice Pizza”. The film focuses on a teenaged Gary (Cooper Hoffman) who becomes intrigued by an older photographer assistant named Alana (Alana...

r96sk

I can't say I enjoyed <em>'Licorice Pizza'</em> as much as most, but this flick from Paul Thomas Anderson is a good one. Alana Haim and Cooper Hoffman are entertaining in the lead roles, with Haim particularly standing out - though Philip Seymour Hoffman's kid definitely improves as the film tick...

beyondthecineramadome

Full review: <a>https://www.tinakakadelis.com/beyond-the-cinerama-dome/2021/12/28/sweet-valley-high-licorice-pizza-review<a> There’s a lackadaisical feeling that runs throughout writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson’s _Licorice Pizza_. It feels like summer, where there’s nothing in the world but t...

the_blueeyes

The is a real colourful oddball of a movie. From start to finish we are instantly thrown into Alana´s journey and are taken trough a series of strange situations and developments. There is no pre-development or little to be told about the main characters history. The movie is a moment-to-moment ta...

badelf

Licorice Pizza: Paul Thomas Anderson's Masterful Meditation on Becoming In "Licorice Pizza", Paul Thomas Anderson does what he does best: he transforms the messy, uncertain terrain of human becoming into a luminous, deeply compassionate narrative. Set in the San Fernando Valley of the 1970s, t...

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