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ADULT WORLD

DIRECTOR: Scott Coffey
Studio: IFC

Starring: Emma Roberts, John Cusack, Evan Peters, Chris Riggi, and Shannon WoodwardVibrators and confessional poetry collide in this sexy comedy about an aspiring writer cum sex toy shop clerk and her crusty literary idol (John Cusack). Amy (Emma Roberts) is a naïve, awkward aspiring poet in a post-grad existence that is going nowhere. Living with her parents in a bland upstate New York town, certain of her yet-to-be-acknowledged literary greatness and desperate for income, she begrudgingly accepts a job at Adult World, the local sex shop owned by a frisky elderly couple (including a wonderful Cloris Leachman) and staffed by diva transvestite Rubio and adorable local boy Alex. Amy balances her work amongst the pornography and sex toys by fiercely pursuing a surefire kick start for her success: a mentorship with reclusive, crusty and alcoholic writer Rat Billings, played by a bitterly funny John Cusack.

REVIEWS

L.A. TIMES
“Adult World' is poetry in motion... snappy lines and sharp direction... A smart incisive comedy Adult World" is a winner.” - Gary Goldstein

N.Y TIMES
In Scott Coffey’s smart Adult Wold... Mr. Cusack’s sardonic, understated portrayal of Rat, grounds the movie in a wistfully cynical realism. - Stephen Holden

THE VILLAGE VOICE (CRITICS' PICK) 
“A terrific small-budget indie. 
Every once in a while a terrific small-budget indie comes along and nobody even blinks. Adult World, directed by Scott Coffey is so smart — and so specific about the way young people's expectations of glory can either funnel more crap into the world or stem that crap's flow... Coffey captures the beauty and safety of living in a smallish place where people know and care about you.” - Stephanie Zacharek

VARIETY
“John Cusack's delicious star turn bolsters Scott Coffey's satirical coming of age comedy.” - Ronnie Scheib

SALON 
“Adult World”: John Cusack’s best role in years. “ - Andrew O’Hehir 

NY POST
“Adult World delivers stellar John Cusack performance... it’s great to see one of that decade’s enduring icons, John Cusack, still working at the top of his game as a once-famous poet stalked by a wannabe Sylvia Plath (Emma Roberts) in Scott Coffey’s black comedy." - Lou Lumenick

GRANTLAND
“Adult World delves into similar issues as its sistren, Frances Ha and Girls, but with less acid and more base. It can be very cutting at times, but it’s never condescending or judgmental... “ - Molly Lamert  

IT TAKES THREE

DIRECTOR: Scott Coffey
Studio: Gunpowder&Sky

John Hughes spin on the classic Cyrano de Bergerac story. When Chris, the coolest guy in school discovers that Roxy sees through his popularity and good looks, he enlists Cy to reverse catfish her-letting him take over his social media accounts to add substance to his style. Signals are crossed, hearts are broken, but in this post-modern rom-com, nothing turns as you'd expect.IT TAKES THREE is now available on all digital platforms! RELEASE DATE: September 3, 2021WRITTEN BY: Logan Burdick and Blair Mastbaum STORY BY: Logan Burdick MUSIC SUPERVISOR: Scottie Diablo STARRING: Jared Gilman (Moonrise Kingdom), Aurora Perrineau (When They See Us), Mikey Madison (Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood, Scream 5), David Gridley (The DUFF)

ELLIE PARKER

DIRECTOR: Scott Coffey
Sundance Film Festival Official Selection
New American Cinema Award

Ellie Parker is the story of an Australian actress struggling to make it in Hollywood. Ellie is young enough to still go to auditions back and forth across Los Angeles, changing wardrobes and slapping on makeup en route, but just old enough that the future feels "more like a threat than a promise". She lives with her vacuous musician boyfriend (Mark Pellegrino), who leaves her just about as dissatisfied as any other part of her life, and has a loose definition of the word "fidelity". Helping make sense of their surreal and humiliating Hollywood existence is her best friend Sam (Rebecca Rigg), another out-of-work actress trying her hand at design, who attends acting classes with Ellie to stay sharp. When Ellie gets into a fender bender with a guy who claims he is a cinematographer (Scott Coffey), her perspective on her work and the dating world starts to change. Chevy Chase also makes an appearance playing Ellie's agent.

REVIEWS FOR ELLE PARKER

EBERT AND ROBERT AT THE MOVIES
“TWO THUMBS WAY UP”

SALON
"Ellie Parker" is the sharpest, most authentic portrait of Hollywood life made in the last several years... a tightly structured comedy. What makes this movie work, both as satire and as pathos, is the obvious intimacy and trust between director and actor” — ANDREW O’HEHIR SALON

LOS ANGELES TIMES
“Ellie Parker" is a funny, fractured valentine... Ellie Parker is at once
hilarious and harrowing, and in being so, seems right on target. There's an honesty, as painful as it is comical, about Ellie and her story that lingers long after the lights go up.” — KEVIN THOMAS LOS ANGLES TIMES

NEW YORK TIMES
“Ellie Parker” is a corrosive, deadpan comedy. Naomi Watts delivers a fearless portrayal of the title character... a brave acting tour de force. - STEPHEN HOLDEN

SIGHT AND SOUND
"A sharp exposé of the bilious undercurrents running beneath Hollywood's candy-coloured surface, ELLIE PARKER is a fizzy and hugely entertaining debut." — EDWARD LAWRENSON

FILMMAKER MAGAZINE
“The acting is so fresh and convincing that it is virtually impossible to determine what’s been written and what’s been improvised. There is a striking sense of immediacy that permeates the film. It has a strange, beautiful sense of melancholy. — WALTER SALLES

VOGUE / NPR FRESH AIR
“ELLIE PARKER is a bitingly raw comedy about the travails of making it in Hollywood. Watts is extraordinary throughout, but the opening sequence – which finds Ellie auditioning for the role of a wailing Southern belle, then getting into her car and driving through L.A. while changing clothes, talking on her cell phone, and rehearsing lines for and audition as a tough-talking New York hooker – is a tour de force. — JOHN POWERS