Title - Licorice Pizza
Production - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, BRON Studios, Focus Features
Starring - Alana Haim, Cooper Hoffman, John Michael Higgins, Benny Safdie, Tom Waits, Bradley Cooper, Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Maya Rudolph, John C. Reilly, Sean Penn, Este Haim, Danielle Haim, Emma Dumont
Writer - Paul Thomas Anderson
Director - Paul Thomas Anderson
Release - 25 December 2021
Paul Thomas Anderson has an eye to keep his characters as real as possible, casting Alana Haim and Cooper Hoffman in their first feature, and directing them to look as seasoned as they did. Interestingly enough, he also cast Haim's sisters to play her movie sisters.
Hoffman here was a revelation. He looked exactly like his late father, Philip Seymour Hoffman, but his acting talent also was a strange reminiscent of the senior as well.
The first act of Licorice Pizza was a gem. Getting to know these characters and with many comedic scenes, partly because of John Michael Higgins popping up with the most insulting racist imitation of how Japanese speaks. That was so random but so funny.
Bradley Cooper is nominated this year for his small role here. But it was such a minor role that I'm left scratching my head because there were many others that would have been more deserving of that spot.
By the start of the third act, the movie had lost me momentarily - specifically when Sean Penn showed up. The pacing really slowed down significantly and I thought the story could have been shorter with this part of the movie cut down.
But the ending was really sweet and subdued, and it wrapped up the movie very nicely.
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