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Forty-seven-year-old Jerri Blank is a socially unaware ex-con junkie alcoholic prostitute. After being released from her latest stint behind bars, Jerri wants to clean up her life and decides the best way to do so is to go home, where she left thirty-two years earlier when she began her depraved life. She arrives home to find that her mother has died, and her father has remarried a much younger woman and has fallen into a stress-induced coma in part because she disappeared. She takes that cleaning up her life one step further when Dr. Putney, her father's doctor, tells her that he may emerge from his coma if life were to return to the way it was before she left, but better, as she has to make her father proud. So she decides to go back to her old high school, Flatpoint, to get her high school diploma. She quickly decides the best way to be the best student possible is to participate in and win the state science fair. In her quest, she gets caught up in the competing agendas of: ... Written by
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High school is difficult... for a 47-year-old ex-con junkie crack whore.
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Release Date:
21 July 2006 (USA)
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Also Known As:
De vuelta al 'insti'
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Box Office
Budget:
$3,500,000
(estimated)
Opening Weekend:
$43,141
(USA)
(30 June 2006)
Gross:
$2,068,323
(USA)
(15 September 2006)
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Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1
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The pinup model in Jerri's locker is
Amy Sedaris. Sedaris also played the cocktail waitress in the "Teacher's Lounge" scene.
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after their science fair idea has been stolen by Roger Beekman's team]
Olivia:
Maybe there's still hope.
Chuck Noblet:
Hope? You fool. Don't you know death when you see it? I'm being punished. You have no idea of the terrible things I've done. Curse God and die!
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Soundtracks
Superconductor Made of Cans
Lyrics written by
Paul Dinello and
Stephen Colbert
Music written by
Paul Shaffer
Arranged and produced by Eran Westwood
Vocals by the BixKids Choir
Master Recording courtesy of Queensize Music
Published by Queensize Music/Postvalda Music
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Anybody in search of sophisticated comedy should avoid this movie like the plague. However, if you're a fan of blue comedy and belly laughs,"Strangers with Candy" is the one for you. The film like the short lived Comedy Central series is filled with cynical takes on adolescence, high school, family life and sex.If you're a fan of the show, the first glimpse of Jerri's hideous face will give you a serious case of the giggles immediately. She's the ultimate outsider, a real troll who says what the rest of us were afraid to say to the A-list kids in high school. The scene of Jerri's revenge on a student attempting to leave a "gift" in her locker will elicit laughter and some vicarious pleasure from all those who ever suffered the torments of bullies. Even when people try to victimize Jerri, they take a chance of being dragged down to her level of depravity, an irony not lost on fans. "Strangers with Candy" is a wacky look at a time in life that most of us would prefer to forget but the humor ranging from the elliptical to the scatological will make high school a lot more fun this time around. I haven't been in a theater with that much laughter since I saw "Animal House" in 1978. The ninety minute length of the film keeps the gags from getting stale.