Philly-shot movie with Jennifer Love Hewitt to screen at festival
The film premiered here last fall.
Cafe, a Philly produced and shot film by Marc Erlbaum, will open the 16th International Family Film Festival in Hollywood on March 16, as the Hollywood Reporter wrote over the weekend.
The low-budget indie, an ensemble piece about life in a coffee shop, was shot here in spring 2009 with Jennifer Love Hewitt and Jamie Kennedy, then a couple.
Erlbaum wrote the screenplay at West Philly's Green Line Cafe. Also in the cast are Daniel Eric Gold (Matt in Ugly Betty) and Alexa Vega (Carmen Cortez in Spy Kids).
Sean Covel and Doc Wyatt, producers of Napoleon Dynamite, produced with J. Andrew Greenblatt.
Greenblatt, a friend of the Upper Darby-bred Kennedy's, said at the time that he simply sent him the script "and he liked it. " Hewitt came along as part of the deal.
The film was screened here last fall as part of the Philadelphia Film Festival.