Naomi Watts glows, even in low-watt 'Ellie Parker'
by Eleanor Ringel Gillespie

"Ellie Parker" is about what it's like to be young, pretty, talented and shut out of the movie biz. Shuttling from audition to audition, changing accents and clothes in the car as she shows up as a Southern belle at one casting office, a crack whore at the next, Ellie lives a life of not-so-quiet humiliation as she tries to maintain her integrity, her decency and her sanity in an environment that values none of the above. Read the full review

TO SUM UP
Ellie Parker races around town from one audition to another, changing make-up, clothes and personality as she speeds along, barely attending to her whirlwind life as she strives to get cast in a movie. And her manager, her best friend, her boyfriend and her new fling don't seem to help.

FILM FACTS ...
Strand Releasing
'Ellie Parker'

Director: Scott Coffey
Starring: Naomi Watts, Rebecca Rigg, Scott Coffey, Mark Pellegrino, Blair Mastbaum (II), Chevy Chase
Run time: 94 minutes
Release date: Nov. 11, 2005
Rating: R for profanity and sexual situations.

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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: C+
"The incandescent Naomi Watts ... quivers with the eagerness and desperation of a Chekov heroine."


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