Ellie Parker

Naomi Watts produces and stars in Ellie Parker, a semi-autobiographical story of an Australian actress struggling to make it in Hollywood. Ellie is young enough to still schlep to auditions back and forth across L.A., changing wardrobes and slapping on makeup en route, but just old enough that the ...more

The indie Hollywood satire may be nothing new, but through digital video and the dedication of Naomi Watts and Scott Coffey, it finds welcome new life in Ellie Parker. With its unique format and scathing insights into the industry's workaday grind, the film feels like a stylistic and thematic cousin of Time Code, Mike Figgis' daring quad-screen experiment in real-time cinema. But instead of interweaving narratives, it offers a series of potentially non-sequential peeks into Ellie's life, which ...more