PTA: Licorice Pizza
Opens September 21, 2025
The Modern Mastery of Paul Thomas Anderson
The story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine growing up, running around and falling in love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.
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Sunday, September 21, 2025
Monday, September 22, 2025
The San Fernando Valley. This immensely charming coming of age comedy about a gifted — or at least, self-confident — 15-year-old aspiring actor (played by Philip Seymour Hoffman’s son, Cooper) courting a bright but directionless young woman of 25 (Alana Haim) feels like it must be autobiographical, although PTA was only three years old in 1973. Taking place over a year or so, the movie is a celebration of chutzpah, entrepreneurship, and romance, but it’s also a critique of over-bearing, egocentric men, the pitfalls of the entertainment industry, and indeed the waterbed business. The title comes from a southern California record store chain, and this oddball, meandering but bittersweet love story hits its own sweet groove. It’s a long player that keeps on giving.
- Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
- Principal Cast: Alana Haim, Cooper Hoffman, Sean Penn, Bradley Cooper, Benny Safdie, Tom Waits
- Country: USA
- Year: 2021
- Running Time: 133 min.
- Producer: Paul Thomas Anderson, Sara Murphy, Adam Somner
- Screenplay: Paul Thomas Anderson
- Cinematographers: Paul Thomas Anderson, Michael Bauman
- Editors: Andy Jurgensen
- Music: Jonny Greenwood
- Filmography: Phantom Thread (2017), The Master (2012), There Will Be Blood (2007), Punch-Drunk Love (2002), Magnolia (1999), Boogie Nights (1997), Hard Eight (1996)
- Language: English
- Rating: R
- US Distributor: United Artists Releasing