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Quiz Lady
A brilliant but tightly wound, gameshow-obsessed young woman, Anne, and her estranged, train-wreck of a sister, Jenny, must work together to help cover their mother's gambling debts. When Anne's beloved dog is kidnapped, they set out on a wild, cross-country trek to get the cash the only way they know how: by turning Anne into a bona-fide gameshow champion.
2023 · Directed by Jessica Yu · 100 min · Comedy · Screenplay in the scene database · 16 frames
Tagline
Two sisters. One destiny.
Plot
As a child growing up in Greater Pittsburgh, Anne Yum finds comfort in the TV game show Can't Stop the Quiz to escape her stressful family; her father leaves them, her mother is a gambling addict, and her older sister Jenny abandons Anne and their dog, Mr. Linguini, to pursue dreams of fame. Years later, a tightly wound Anne lives alone with Mr. Linguini and feels invisible at work but still watches Can't Stop the Quiz every night.
Learning that her mother has escaped her nursing home and fled to Macau, Anne reunites with the reckless, chaotic Jenny. Unemployed and living in her car, Jenny comes to stay with Anne and claims to have won a lucrative lawsuit against a restaurant chain after choking on a fish bone. While watching Can't Stop the Quiz, Jenny secretly records Anne answering every question at remarkable speed, and the video goes viral, much to Anne's horror. She is tracked down by Ken, a loan shark who has kidnapped Mr. Linguini and demands that Anne pay off her mother's $80,000 debt.
Jenny encourages Anne — whose video gained the attention of the Can't Stop the Quiz casting directors — to go on the show and win enough money to get Mr. Linguini back. Anne refuses, but Jenny kidnaps her and drives her to Philadelphia to audition for the show, admitting on the way that she lied about winning the lawsuit. Jenny dislocates her wrist at a bar. Waiting at the hospital, they reminisce about the childhood summer they spent with their cousins in Burbank, who didn't like them and never invited them back. Anne reveals that she felt too uncomfortable and unwelcome to use the cousins' bathroom, leading her to defecate in a hole in the backyard.
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Crew
- Written by: Jen D'Angelo
- Cinematography: Adrian Peng Correia
- Edited by: Nat Sanders, Susan Vaill
- Music: Nick Urata
- Production design: Jeff Mann
- Produced by: Awkwafina, Jen D'Angelo, Jessica Elbaum, Will Ferrell
Cast
- Awkwafina as Anne Yum
- Sandra Oh as Jenny Yum
- Will Ferrell as Terry McTeer
- Jason Schwartzman as Ron Heacock
- Holland Taylor as Francine
- Angela Trimbur as Marge
- Tawny Newsome as Mercedes
- Tony Hale as Ben Franklin
- Jonnie Park as Ken
- Justiin Davis as Darryl (Drunk Bro at Bar)
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: 20th Century Studios, Artists First, Gloria Sanchez Productions
- Themes: game show, pittsburgh, pennsylvania, sister sister relationship, quiz show
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