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Pop Culture Happy Hour

Licorice Pizza

Pop Culture Happy Hour

NPR

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4.510.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Licorice Pizza is a freewheeling slice of life story about an odd friendship/flirtation set in the San Fernando Valley. Written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, the film stars Cooper Hoffman and Alana Haim (who play 15- and 25-year-olds, respectively) as they deliver waterbeds and embark on meandering adventures during the gas crisis of the 1970s.

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This episode contains discussion of sexual assault.

0:07.5

Likarish Pizza was a so-called record store chain that existed decades ago.

0:12.0

Now, it's also the title of Paul Thomas Anderson's newest movie,

0:15.5

a free-wailing slice of life story about an odd friendship slash flirtation

0:20.0

between a 15-year-old boy and a 25-year-old woman.

0:23.0

It's set in the San Fernando Valley of the 1970s and stars Cooper Hoffman and Alana Hayam.

0:28.0

There's no Likarish Pizza or Likarish Pizza store to be found here,

0:31.5

but it does feature actors like Bradley Cooper and Tom Waits having a lot of fun

0:35.0

playing eccentric characters. I'm Glenn Welp.

0:37.5

And I'm Aisha Harris.

0:39.0

And today we're talking about Likarish Pizza on Pop Culture Happy Hour from NPR.

0:47.0

So it's just glad in me today. Let's get right into it.

0:50.5

Now Likarish Pizza is a shaggy narrative that's got little plot, mostly vibes.

0:55.0

It's 1973 in the Valley. Cooper Hoffman plays 15-year-old Gary Valentine,

1:00.0

a cocky child actor who's quickly aging out of show business.

1:03.5

At school, he meets 25-year-old Alana Cain, played by Alana Hayam,

1:07.5

where she's working as a photographer's assistant on picture day.

1:10.5

And immediately he asks her out on a date.

1:13.0

She agrees but the two develop an unusual complicated dynamic,

1:16.5

which we will definitely get into.

1:18.5

Because there's not really much of a plot here,

1:20.5

just a few things that happened throughout the movie.

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