Pizza (film)
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Pizza is a 2005
2005 in film
- Highest-grossing films :Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top-grossing films that were first released in the United States in 2005...

 film
Film
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 written and directed
Film director
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 by Mark Christopher
Mark Christopher (director)
Mark Christopher is a screenwriter and director most well known as the director of the Neve Campbell, Ryan Phillippe, Mike Meyers-starring film, 54 and for his television writing and gay-themed filmmaking.-Credits:...

, filmed in and around Milford, Pennsylvania
Milford, Pennsylvania
Milford is a borough in Pike County, Pennsylvania, United States, and the county seat. Its population was 1,021 at the 2010 census. It was founded in 1796 by Judge John Biddis, one of the state's first four circuit judges, who named the settlement after his ancestral home in Wales.Milford has a...

 in 2003. It was screened at the Seattle International Film Festival
Seattle International Film Festival
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 on May 27, 2005 and had a limited release on January 20, 2006. The region 1
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 DVD
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 was released on October 24, 2006.

Plot

Cara-Ethyl (Kylie Sparks
Kylie Sparks
Kylie Sparks is an American actress, most known for having played the lead role in the 2005 feature film Pizza....

) is an eccentric, obese, and sheltered girl on the eve of her eighteenth birthday who desperately dreams of an exciting life. But she's left with her blind, clueless (but well-meaning) mother (Julie Hagerty
Julie Hagerty
Julie Hagerty is an American actress and former model.-Early life:Hagerty was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, the daughter of Harriet Yuellig, a model and singer, and Jerry Hagerty, a musician. Her brother Michael Hagerty was also an actor. Her parents later divorced. Hagerty attended Indian Hill High...

), a pest of a brother and imaginary friends (Cara-Ethyl pretends she has a friend for her mother).

All that is changed when the pizza man, Matt Firenze (Ethan Embry
Ethan Embry
Ethan Philan Randall , although he is known and usually credited as Ethan Embry, is an American film and television actor. He is known for his role as Declan Giggs on the Showtime television series Brotherhood.-Personal life:...

), comes to the door. Soon, Cara-Ethyl persuades Matt to allow her to go with him on his deliveries. As the night progresses, Cara-Ethyl and Matt impart their wisdom and learn from each other, and both are forced to evaluate their lives.

Cast

  • Ethan Embry
    Ethan Embry
    Ethan Philan Randall , although he is known and usually credited as Ethan Embry, is an American film and television actor. He is known for his role as Declan Giggs on the Showtime television series Brotherhood.-Personal life:...

     as Matt Firenze
  • Kylie Sparks
    Kylie Sparks
    Kylie Sparks is an American actress, most known for having played the lead role in the 2005 feature film Pizza....

     as Cara-Ethyl
  • Julie Hagerty
    Julie Hagerty
    Julie Hagerty is an American actress and former model.-Early life:Hagerty was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, the daughter of Harriet Yuellig, a model and singer, and Jerry Hagerty, a musician. Her brother Michael Hagerty was also an actor. Her parents later divorced. Hagerty attended Indian Hill High...

     as Darlene
  • Judah Friedlander
    Judah Friedlander
    Judah Friedlander is an American actor and comedian, known for his trademark trucker hats, oversized glasses and unkempt appearance, which he retains in many of his screen roles.-Early life:...

     as Jimmy
  • Marylouise Burke
    Marylouise Burke
    Marylouise Burke is an American film, TV and theatre actress.Burke won the 2000 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play for her appearance as Gertie in an off-Broadway-theatre production of Fuddy Meers in New York City, New York....

     as Aunt Grandma
  • Richard Easton
    Richard Easton
    Richard Easton is a Canadian actor. He is best known in for his portrayal of Brian Hammond in the 1970s BBC serial The Brothers.-Biography:...

     as Mr. Mitchell
  • Jessica Dunphy
    Jessica Dunphy
    Jessica Dunphy is an American actress.Originally from Glenside, Pennsylvania, Dunphy's most prominent roles include Devin Pillsbury on The Sopranos and Alison Stewart on the soap opera As the World Turns from April 25, 2002 until her final appearance on July 20, 2005.She has appeared in the films...

     as Desire
  • Julia Kay as Gina Morrissey
  • Jesse McCartney
    Jesse McCartney
    Jesse McCartney is an American singer-songwriter, actor and voice actor. McCartney achieved fame in the late 1990s on the daytime drama All My Children as JR Chandler. He later joined boy band Dream Street, and eventually branched out into a solo musical career...

    as Justin Bridges
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