Licorice Pizza

It is Anderson's happiest creation to date-blithe, easy-breathing and expansive. ” New Yorker

Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest is a romance about a teen boy wooing an older woman, starring two extraordinary newcomers Alana Haim (the musician) and Cooper Hoffman (son of the great Philip Seymour Hoffman). Set in 1970’s California, with Sean Penn, Bradley Cooper & Tom Waits in supporting roles..how much COOLER do you need a film to be!?

LICORICE PIZZA is the story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine growing up, running around and falling in love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973. the film tracks the treacherous navigation of first love, all set against the amazing and tumultuously infectious energy and time of the early 1970’s.

Rating
M
Duration
133 MINS

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