Pizza (2005)

Former high school hotshot, Matt, is now the world's oldest pizza delivery boy, filling his time with meaningless relationships that lead nowhere. Cara-Ethyl is a cute, chubby, eccentric brainiac who has had torturous high school years. . . They discover each other during a pizza delivery and these mismatched misfits experience comic adventures. -National Radio Promotions and publicity campaigns

I'd Order Seconds!

One of the best movies i have seen in a long time! Honestly i didn't really expect very much from the title, but it turned out to have a great "feel good" theme that wasn't to cheesy :) A great reason to stay home on a friday night and order pizza! February 27, 2008

Not a new story, just a different way of delivering it.

This is a tale about a young girl who is seen as an outsider because of her looks and her behaviors, who has to spend her 18th birthday alone at home with her mother. Just as the "party" is getting started, the pizza boy comes. But he's the longest running pizza boy in town, for the past 12 years. He is "The Pizza King", but what else does he have? In their brief interaction, they make a connection, and she decides to join him on he rout of deliveries that night. Follow these two in their journey to find out what is important to them both as they push each other's buttons all night long. I was pleasently surprised by this, can relate aspects of each of the characters to someone I know, easy to identify with. Some pretty funny parts. Tough to belive this came from the same director of "54". Worth a viewing. August 26, 2007

a nice surprise

Nice little movie - very touching in some parts and way too close to real life in others. May 14, 2007

An Odd Couple's Haphazard Night of Pizza Deliveries

Seven years after his ambitious attempt at depicting the high life of the mid-70's Manhattan disco scene in "54", writer-director Mark Christopher has come back most modestly with this elliptical low-budget 2005 coming-of-age comedy that seems to be a cross between a 1980's John Hughes movie and "Napoleon Dynamite". It actually plays out a bit like a teen version of Martin Scorsese's "After Hours" as it follows two disparate characters on an all-night adventure hinging on a series of pizza deliveries. The focus is on a lonely overweight girl, Cara-Ethyl (obscurely named after Irene Cara and Ethel Mertz from "I Love Lucy"). A social outcast forced to make up an imaginary friend to appease her temporarily blinded mother, Cara-Ethyl celebrates her 18th birthday with lots of food but no one to share in the festivities.

Enter Matt Firenze, a thirty-year old failed political activist with his own pizza delivery truck and a prolific track record with women but little else to show for himself. He feels sorry for her plight and invites her on his runs for the night. While Matt attempts to give her lessons on self-acceptance, Cara-Ethyl inevitably experiences deeper feelings that lead to revelations about both their lives. The idea is sound if rather unoriginal, but Christopher's off-kilter, episodic approach feels contrived for all the wrong reasons in spite of a smattering of well-earned laughs. Kylie Sparks certainly gets all of Cara-Ethyl's eccentricities and precociousness down pat, but her character is conceived in ill-fitting clichés over how an awkward, friendless teen finds her identity. As Matt, a cast-against-type Ethan Embry has moments of resonance, but he mainly appears to be channeling Matthew McConaughey's laconic slacker in "Dazed and Confused". The two leads never seem to gel since the contrivance of the situation is too overwhelming.

Familiar faces show up in the supporting cast - Julie Hagerty with her eyes excessively bandaged as Cara-Ethyl's not-so-clueless mom, Marylouise Burke (Paul Giamatti's drunken mother in "Sideways") as Aunt Grandma, and Alexis Dziena (Sharon Stone's oversexed daughter in "Broken Flowers") as a hairball-producing tart. The film clips by quickly at eighty minutes, and I have to admit some of the music used was entertaining - a karaoke number from "Bye Bye Birdie", Lulu's throaty voice on "To Sir With Love" in a strangely disco-oriented club, and Embry's plaintive guitar number. With middling picture quality due to the digital filming, the 2006 DVD has a few extras worth noting. With some help from producer Howard Gertler, Christopher provides unobtrusive commentary on an alternate track and on an eight-minute featurette about some of the scenes. January 28, 2007

This movie was hilarious

I though this movie was fantastic, it really shpwed that even the most unpopular people can make a friend and did this is in a humorous way. i give this movie 2 thumbs up, everyone should watch it! January 9, 2007

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