![]() A flooding disaster strikes during the installation, which necessitates an escape by truck, with Alana driving the hairpin turns like a hardened teamster. The waterbed is part of Gary’s entrepreneurial attempt to strike it rich in business (pinball machines will come later). She’s referring to Streisand, which cues the entrance of Bradley Cooper-off-the-charts hilarious as Jon Peters, the womanizing, rageaholic hairdresser who’s dating the legend and hires Gary and Alana to install a waterbed to get some waves going in his sex life with Barbra. Gary even wrangles Alana an interview with talent agent Mary Grady (Harriet Sansom Harris, an acid-tongued hoot), who says that Alana’s “very Jewish nose” is an asset these days. Gary persuades his manager mom (Mary Elizabeth Ellis) to let Alana chaperone him to New York for a cast reunion for “Under One Roof,” the cornball family comedy that put him on the map. Maybe it’s better to see licorice and pizza as two things that don’t go together until they do in this love mismatch made in heaven. But the director, known as PTA by film junkies, never mentions the franchise. “Licorice Pizza” refers to a now-defunct chain of record stores in LA’s San Fernando Valley in the 1970s, where Anderson grew up and the story is set. ![]() But Haim and Hoffman light up the screen. ![]() The movie boasts big names, including Bradley Cooper, Sean Penn and frequent references to Barbra Streisand, but focuses on two new stars: Alana Haim, a musician with the sister trio band Haim, and Cooper Hoffman, the lookalike son of the late Philip Seymour Hoffman. Instead of trying to get a fix on the whirlwind of dizzying delights that writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson calls “Licorice Pizza,” just find a theater where it’s playing (it’s not currently streaming) and get set for a screwball comedy explosion about the serious business of first love. ![]()
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