Screening Party

Overview

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

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Dennis Hensley

Dennis

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Erin Quill

Lauren

Tony Tripoli

Tony

Felix Pire

Marcos

Ossie Beck

Ross

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Nora Burns

Dr. Beverly Beaverman

Chil Kong

Barry

Todd Christian Hunter

Danny Dancer

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Eli Eagle

Peter

Justin Marco

Young Dennis

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Bob McEwen

Mr. H.

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Debbie Praver

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