Strangers with Candy is a 2005 film released by ThinkFilm, first screened at the Sundance Film Festival. It follows the TV series Strangers with Candy. Among the executive producers was David Letterman.
Jerri Blank (Amy Sedaris), a 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 (Dan Hedaya) has remarried to the hateful Sara Blan...
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Strangers with Candy is a 2005 film released by ThinkFilm, first screened at the Sundance Film Festival. It follows the TV series Strangers with Candy. Among the executive producers was David Letterman.
Jerri Blank (Amy Sedaris), a 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 (Dan Hedaya) has remarried to the hateful Sara Blank (Deborah Rush) and she has an annoying 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 (real-life Bayonne High School in Bayonne, NJ).
Jerri joins Chuck Noblet's (Stephen Colbert) science fair team, the Fig Neutrons, along with her new friends Megawatti Sucarnaputri (a spoof on Megawati...
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