I'm Not From Here

The Plot Thickens

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Tv & Film, Film History

4.8 • 4.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Newly arrived in Los Angeles, Pam learns underground filmmaking at UCLA and sings backup for some of the biggest musical acts of the 60s. She also has her first serious romance, with a towering basketball phenom named Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Then, a chance audition for a low-budget movie leads to Pam’s first opportunity in front of the camera, as an actor.

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0:00.0	Pam figured she'd go work in the movie business and save enough money to pay for school.
0:06.4	Her mom's aunt, Min-Yone, volunteered to go with her.
0:09.8	It would take two days and two nights to get from Denver to Hollywood.
0:14.5	Pam packed only a single pair of jeans and a purple coat.
0:19.3	I had a book at a Colonel Sanders chicken and $33 in my pocket.
0:24.2	And that's it.
0:25.4	And nobody was around.
0:27.2	Everybody, you know, hug me and wish me goodbyes, like, you know, hey, one less person to feed.
0:32.2	I don't know.
0:36.6	Pam and Min-Yone set off early on a Friday morning in the summer of 1968 in Pam's Blue Pontiac.
0:49.6	It was a battered Pontiac barber and no air conditioning windows.
0:57.4	I'm cranked down, cranked up.
1:02.2	Aunt Min-Yone was in her 70s and owned a catering business.
1:06.2	She cooked kosher food for wealthy Jewish families.
1:10.9	Pam worried about how far her $33 would go.
1:14.9	Min-Yone reassured her.
1:16.7	She had it covered.
1:19.4	She popped my eyes out because she opened up her pocket, but there's a big ass roll of
1:25.8	money.
1:26.8	Cash.
1:27.8	I knew I was going to be all right.
1:31.6	Pam and Min-Yone took root 66.
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