Gary is played by first-timer Cooper Hoffman. MONDELLO: Alana is played by Alana Haim of the rock band Haim. HAIM: (As Alana Kane) I'm sure, and all that math homework you have to do after everything. HOFFMAN: (As Gary Valentine) It gets complicated. HOFFMAN: (As Gary Valentine) Well, no, I'm not.
HOFFMAN: (As Gary Valentine) Well, no, I'm not a secret agent. HAIM: (As Alana Kane) And you're a secret agent, too. HAIM: (As Alana Kane) And you're an actor. HAIM: (As Alana Kane) In your public relations company? Because you have that. HOFFMAN: (As Gary Valentine) Yes, she does, in my public relations company. HAIM: (As Alana Kane) Oh, of course she does. HOFFMAN: (As Gary Valentine) My mom works for me. Ever since you were a kid, a song and dance man (laughter). I mean, ever since I was a kid, I've been a song and dance man. And he asks for a table, and she decides to go along.ĪLANA HAIM: (As Alana Kane) So how'd you become such a hotshot actor?ĬOOPER HOFFMAN: (As Gary Valentine) I'm a showman. But that night she shows up, and the folks in the restaurant all seem to know Gary. He's having dinner at a restaurant she figures is way out of his league. And the more she brushes him off, the more he makes passes. She points out that he's 15 and she's in her 20s, but he's unfazed, tells her he's an actor. Most of the kids ignore her, but one boy, Gary Valentine, starts chatting her up like he wants a date.
MONDELLO: Alana, the photographer's assistant, is walking the line, offering a mirror to anyone who wants it.
UNIDENTIFIED SINGER: (Singing) Tulip seed (ph). a high school courtyard in the early 1970s, bored students in a long line snaking toward a photographer who'll take their yearbook photos. "Licorice Pizza" is getting awards buzz, and critic Bob Mondello says deservedly so.īOB MONDELLO, BYLINE: Encino, Calif. Filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson worked with the late actor Philip Seymour Hoffman on films from "Boogie Nights" to "Magnolia." In "Licorice Pizza," Anderson has cast Hoffman's teenage son, Cooper Hoffman, opposite pop singer Alana Haim.
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