Licorice Pizza

Licorice Pizza (2021)

Timing: 2:13 (133 min)

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All about film

Video 12

Photo 135

Actors and characters

Release date

2021-11-26

Country

Canada, United States

Production

Bron Studios, Focus Features, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Ghoulardi Film Company

Genre

Drama, Comedy, Romance

Budget

$40 000 000

Revenue

$33 276 075

Website

http://licoricepizzamovie.com

Director

Paul Thomas Anderson

Actors

Alana Haim, Cooper Hoffman, Sean Penn, Tom Waits, Bradley Cooper, Benny Safdie, Skyler Gisondo, Mary Elizabeth Ellis, John Michael Higgins, Christine Ebersole
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Paul Thomas Anderson

Producer

Paul Thomas Anderson, Daniel Lupi, JoAnne Sellar, Adam Somner, Sara Murphy, Aaron L. Gilbert, Jason Cloth, JoAnne Sellar, Daniel Lupi, Susan McNamara

Operator

Paul Thomas Anderson

Composer

Jonny Greenwood

Artist

Morgan Lindsey Price

Audition

Cassandra Kulukundis

Editing

Andy Jurgensen, Demelza Cronin
All team (265)

• Alana Haim specifically took driving lessons to learn how to drive a 1970s stick-shift van.
• The young cast members had no idea they would be acting alongside Bradley Cooper until he burst onto the set in his character's costume. Cooper, Hoffman, and Alana Haim first met him in the scene where John Peters, the character he played, asks who's in charge.
• Alana's relatives played the roles of her family members. Alana and her older sisters are members of the rock band “Haim,” which has been nominated for a Grammy Award. The film's writer and director, Paul Thomas Anderson, previously directed several music videos for the band’s songs, and in his childhood, he studied with Donna Haim, the girls’ mother, and even felt romantically attracted to her.
• Leonardo DiCaprio's father, George DiCaprio, played the man who sold Gary a waterbed. During the era depicted in the film, George DiCaprio was well-known in the underground art world of South Carolina.
• The idea for the film came to Paul Thomas Anderson almost 20 years before it was brought to life. He was walking past a local high school and happened to witness a student attempting to flirt with a teacher. At that moment, he began to wonder what would happen if a teenager asked an older woman on a date, and she actually showed up.
• Bradley Cooper plays a real person – John Peters, a Hollywood producer and, during the period depicted in the film, a friend of Barbra Streisand.
• The idea for the film came to Paul Thomas Anderson almost 20 years before it was brought to life. He was walking past a school and noticed a student trying to flirt with a teacher. At that moment, he wondered what would happen if a teenager asked an older woman on a date, and she accepted.
• Licorice Pizza is a slang term for vinyl records.
• Alana Haim specifically went to driving school to learn how to drive a stick-shift van.
• The young actors had no idea they would be acting alongside Bradley Cooper until he burst onto the set in his character's costume.
• Alana's relatives were cast as her character's relatives.