Sunday, September 2, 2007

Lollipops for the Homeless

Last night we watched a quirky little movie from Netflix called LolliLove, directed by and starring Jenna Fischer (Pam from "The Office"). It's a pretty funny mockumentary that satirizes charitable organizations that take people's donations and don't actually do anything worthwhile with them.

In this case, Jenna and her husband James Gunn create a charity called LolliLove whose goal is to produce and distribute lollipops with custom-made inspirational wrappers to the homeless to make them feel better about themselves. The movie is hit and miss funny throughout (and incredibly dark from time to time), but the big treat is the end where there's 5-10 minutes of the cast handing out lollipops to real homeless people in LA. Some of the reactions are priceless.

If you're at all a Pam fan, I would recommend checking it out. Fans of Christopher Guest movies would probably enjoy it, too.

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