Plot
A look at the relationship between a lonely introverted girl and a young video store clerk vying for her attention.

Release Year: 2008

Rating: 6.4/10 (4,251 voted)

Critic's Score: 54/100

Director: Marianna Palka

Stars: Marianna Palka, Jason Ritter, Eric Edelstein

Storyline
They're in their 20s. He works in a video store; he's eager, chatty, sleeps in his car. She rents adult films, looks disheveled, rarely speaks. He chats her up, she brushes him off. He takes her address from store records and contrives to run into her. He rings her doorbell; she tells him to go away. He invents a story of a great-aunt who's died; she lets him in but holds a butcher knife between them. So it goes. He presses for a relationship; she ignores him, insults him, or yells. He's persistent, inviting her out, cooking, washing her hair. Both have demons and, as their natures become more clear, his addictive personality and her sex nausea may be on a collision course.

Cast:
Marianna Palka -
Jason Ritter -
Eric Edelstein - Eric
Mark Webber - Derek
Martin Starr - Simon
Tom Arnold - Dad
Jesse Garcia - Jose
Katherine Waterston - Katherine
Elisabeth Waterston - Elisabeth
Charles Durning - Charlie
Seth Gabel - Kissing Man
Bryce Dallas Howard - Kissing Woman
Marge Morgan - Old Woman
Tyler Ritter - Young Handsome Man
Jeremy Glazer - Café Patron

Taglines: What do you REALLY want?

Official Website: Official site |

Release Date: 3 October 2008

Filming Locations: Los Angeles, California, USA

Box Office Details

Budget: $200,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend: $5,036 (USA) (12 October 2008) (1 Screen)

Gross: $5,036 (USA) (12 October 2008)

Runtime: 86 min

Quotes:
Woman: [to Man] If I wanted to have sex I'd go out and find someone who was actually sexy.

Real life issues brought to life

Rating: 8/10

I saw this movie last night at the Birmingham Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival during the encore showing and really just fell in love with it. The plot was in depth, the characters were amazing, and while some parts of the movie would keep you laughing, there was a deeper meaning hidden in the movie that was very moving. I think everyone watching the movie could find a certain aspect of a character, situation, argument, etc, that they could connect with. The movie put real life issues that many struggle with in perspective. It was not sugar coated or over done but was reality. I loved everything about it and would love to see it again.

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