One of them is Cooper Hoffman, the son of the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, who was one of Anderson's regular collaborators. It's also an obvious labor of love, starring two young actors with whom Anderson has some history. The movie is funny, shaggy and altogether wonderful. We hear some of them on the gloriously overstuffed soundtrack: Nina Simone, Sonny & Cher, The Doors and others. The movie unfolds like a jumbled '70s flashback, one that he seems to have scrapped together by rummaging through cherished old stories and songs. It's the name of an old chain of record stores that were around when Anderson was growing up in the San Fernando Valley. The words "Licorice Pizza" are never spoken in Paul Thomas Anderson's new movie, Licorice Pizza, and so you may wonder where the title comes from, especially if you weren't in Southern California in the '70s. Cooper Hoffman and Alana Haim are unlikely friends in Licorice Pizza.
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