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Filmmaker With Local Roots Reels In Kudos With New Film, ‘It Takes Three’
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er, after taking advantage of rare opportunities to work with some really great film directors as an actor includ- ing Steven Spielberg, John Hughes, Sergio Leone, Da- vid Lynch and Paul Thomas Anderson, “I knew I wanted to direct. I love it. I am most alive and happy on a movie set directing and working with actors.”
Coffey’s first feature film, Ellie Parker, was re- leased in 2005 and starred Naomi Watts and Chevy Chase. The film was an Of- ficial Selection of the Sun- dance Film Festival, and won the New American Cinema Award at the Seattle International Film Festival. The movie received rave reviews from The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Salon, Sight and Sound and Roger Ebert; Ebert and Roeper gave the movie “Two Thumbs Way Up.”
The director aims to capture similar cinematic success with It Takes Three, a new film released this year that follows the plot of a popular guy in school realizing that in order to win over the new girl, who sees right through his rep- utation and looks, he needs to beef up his substance and style. Cy Berger (played by
Coffey on the set of his newest film is It Takes Three (above). In the past, he’s directed Emma Roberts in Adult World (center) and he made his directorial debut in 2005 with Ellie Parker, which starred Chevy Chase and Naomi Watts (seen at right with Coffey) at Sundance Film Festival. PHOTOS COURTESY SCOTT COFFEY
and Satisfaction. These movies were a huge part of my own coming-of-age as an actor and I wanted It Takes Three to harken back to these transformative 1980s teen movies. I wanted to pay
homage to these classics and add to their lineage, but at the same time, I wanted to make something fresh and new.
in the now-classic screen- plays that John Hughes wrote. It’s fun to take a clas- sic story, in this case Cyrano de Bergerac, and update it in a contemporary setting with contemporary people. It re- ally resonated to have the
strangeness of social media in the background of this classic story.”
Jared Gilman) then seeks out help to portray a new personality through social media, however, signals are crossed, hearts are broken, and the fresh take on the romantic comedy nets an unexpected result.
“The script by Logan Burdick and Blair Mastbaum is funny and heartwarming, portraying real teenagers with real problems, just like
It Takes Three is current- ly streaming on AppleTV, iTunes and Amazon Prime, and is available via bit.ly/It- TakesThreeFilm.
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“Directing It Takes Three grew out of my personal his- tory with teen movies,” Cof- fey says.
“I was an actor in the John Hughes films Some Kind of Wonderful and Fer- ris Bueller’s Day Off, and had leading roles in Shag
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