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Licorice Pizza True Story: Every Character Based On A Real Person
Paul Thomas Anderson’s Licorice Pizza may be a fictional coming-of-age story, but the nostalgic Hollywood film features many characters either portraying or based on real-life people. Licorice Pizza documents the misadventures, tumultuous friendship, and romance of Alana Kane, a photographer’s assistant in her mid-20s, and Gary Valentine, a 15-year-old actor, and entrepreneur. Set in the early 1970s, the Licorice Pizza true story elements are also based on the real Hollywood-set memories of director Paul Thomas Anderson and his friend Gary Goetzman.