Strangers With Candy - IGN

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Last updated 23 março 2025

The whole crew is back for the big screen version of the cult TV hit that ran on Comedy Central for three seasons from 1999 - 2001. A sort-of prequel to the show, Strangers With Candy explores the origin story of forty-seven-year-old ex-con, junky-whore Jerri Blank (Amy Sedaris). After being released from prison, Blank returns to the house where she grew up, only to find her father (Dan Hedaya) in a coma and her new mom Sara (Deborah Rush) less-than-thrilled to welcome Blank into their happy home. Jerri decides that she must revisit her troubled youth and fix all of her past problems, hoping that the self-improvement will awake her slumbering papa. She heads back to the place where all the problems started, high school, but soon finds that fitting back in at forty-seven is a bit trickier than she might have imagined. Stephen Colbert returns as clueless teacher Chuck Noblet and Paul Dinello tackles the triple threat as Geoffrey Jellineck as well as director and co-writer with Sedaris and Colbert. Strangers includes an impressive list of cameos and bit players that includes Matthew Broderick, Sarah Jessica Parker, Allison Janney, Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Sir Ian Holm. Fans of the show should appreciate the origin story to everyone's favorite boozer, user and loser from Comedy Central past. The concept originated out of those after school specials most of us remember from our childhood as well as a documentary from 1970 entitled The Trip Back about Florrie Fisher, a 50-year-old ex-prostitute, ex-junkie and ex-con.