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Strangers with Candy is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Paul Dinello released in USA on 21 july 2006 with Dan Hedaya
Strangers with Candy (2006)
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Add to a movie listStrangers with Candy is a 2005 comedy film released by THINKFilm, first screened at the Sundance Film Festival. It serves as a prequel to the TV series of the same name. Among the executive producers was David Letterman.
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Jerri Blank (Amy Sedaris), a 46-year-old former high school dropout and self-described "junkie whore", is released from prison and returns to her childhood home. She discovers her mother has died, her father, Guy (Dan Hedaya), has remarried to the hateful Sara Blank (Deborah Rush), and she has an arrogant half-brother Derrick (Joseph Cross). To make matters worse, her father is in a "stress-induced coma". Taking the suggestion of the family doctor (Ian Holm) literally, Jerri decides to pick her life back up where she left it, beginning her high school all over again as a freshman at Flatpoint High.Actors
Dan Hedaya
(Guy Blank)
Joseph Cross
(Derrick Blank)
Amy Sedaris
(Jerri Blank)
Stephen Colbert
(Chuck Noblet)
Deborah Rush
(Sara Blank)
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