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Margarita Happy Hour (2001)

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Release Date
• USA: Apr 21, 2001
DVD Release Date
• R1: Aug 27, 2002

Official Website:
Margarita Happy Hour Website

Running Time
1 hour, 38 minutes

Country USA

Studio Little Z Productions, Passport Pictures

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Other Titles
• Margarita Happy Hour



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Genre: Drama, Urban, Coming Of Age, Love Triangle

Tagline: Hipsters, Single moms, and the cycles of life

Plot: Zelda (Eleanor Hutchins) was queen of the artsy downtown scene in Brooklyn--until she decided to have a baby. What happens to the punk princess who becomes a single mom? It's not an easy transition. Her boyfriend, Max (played by indie director Larry Fessenden), who thinks he's the next Jack Kerouac and has a taste for womanizing, alcohol and violence, is little help. To make matters worse, her friends gravitate toward cocaine and very loud music. Zelda tries in vain to sing her baby to sleep as the walls of her communal Brooklyn loft vibrate to the beat of the party. She finds some respite in her weekly meetings with a group of other "floozy" moms, who bring their toddlers to the margarita happy hour at a local bar. There, the women trade stories and support each other through their difficult journey of young motherhood. Zelda is able to scrape by, picking up some cash as a freelance illustrator for a porn magazine. But after her rock-chick junkie pal, Natali (Holly Ramos), comes back into her life, Zelda starts to wonder whether perhaps it's time for the party to end.

Director Ilya Chaiken was herself a single mother living in New York while making this film, and her experiences surely have helped give the characters and story the ring of truth. The film's quintet of single

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 Directed by
Ilya Chaiken
100 Lovers of Jesus Reynolds
 Written by
Ilya Chaiken
100 Lovers of Jesus Reynolds
 Cast
Eleanor Hutchins
The Motel, Milk and Honey, Stay Until Tomorrow
Larry Fessenden
Session 9, Animal Factory, Imaginary Heroes
Holly Ramos
100 Lovers of Jesus Reynolds
Barbara Sicuranza
The Sweet Life
Amanda Vogel
The Sticky Fingers of Time
Kristin Di Spaltro
Whipped, Transit
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 Music By
Max Avery Lichtenstein
Tarnation, The King, Puzzlehead



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