Lauren Graham - Lauren in "Life Coach: The Movie"

crazymike4 · 04-06-2005, 04:56 PM

I didn't see a thread for this. If there's already one open, I apoligize.

You can watch the trailer for this film: http://www.lifecoachthemovie.com/trailer.html

Nadine · 04-06-2005, 07:40 PM

Finally someone had the guts to open a thread *g*

Since all the info we had thrown into the Random Searches and the News threads

Cherié £u£u · 04-06-2005, 08:41 PM

We'll leave the thread open, feel free to re-post the information in this thread for people.

Nadine · 04-06-2005, 09:16 PM

Okay c&p this from the random thread.

ch19777 posted

I just found a small piece of info on Vermont Quarterly, site of the University of Vermont (it´s under class of 1990):

Joshua Stolberg is living in Los Angeles, and he recently directed Tim Griffin, Michael Gillis, Derrick Jones, and Eric Steinberg in a movie called “Life Coach.” Joshua is currently writing a pilot for the WB and actress Lauren Graham with Peter Goldfinger.

From AB Normal

Hey neat. My guess is it was filmed summer of 2002 but it could be more recent. Her ex boyfriend Mark Devine is in it. (Green shirt, Scott P lookalike, Maytag Man if you're drawing a blank). Her buds Connie Britton, Carla Gugino, Ron Livingston, and Jonathan Silverman are all in it too. They probably did it for kicks...on a REALLY low budget.

Can ya'll get sound on the trailer? I can't and Lauren's in it towards the middle. Loving the pigtails.

http://www.lifecoachthemovie.com/trailer.html

There's a screening on March 24th. Hmm.

LMAO just read about the conception. Her writer friends Jennifer Jostyn (who was in Take the Deviled Eggs) and Josh Stolberg (who she had the Self Magazine dinner for) produced and directed it. Speaking of which....

Quote:
Life Coach: The Movie was conceived at a dinner party where a few people had probably had too much to drink. Shooting began immediately. The actors bravely improvised froma ten page treatment. Conditions were grueling: sexual misconduct was rampant, bagels were scarce, and the actors were subjected to the grossly inflated egos of the tempermental producers.

Canopus Caps

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Budget estimated at approx $US30,000

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Speaking of Life Coach: The Movie I got a response from Leila (I emailed Josh and he passed it along to his wife)

Dear Nadine,

Thanks for your interest in our movie. We’re trying to sell the film in the hopes that it gets a release in theaters all over the country. As soon as we learn what is happening, we’ll post it on our website.

Thank you again for letting me know that people out there are hearing about our film. It’s really exciting for us!

Best,
Leila
www.lifecoachthemovie.com

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I think that's pretty much the gist of it all

Cherié £u£u · 04-07-2005, 03:02 PM

Thanks for the recap, Nadine.

**Jazz** · 04-07-2005, 05:51 PM

Love the pigtails on Lauren.

Thanks for the update!

soulstarshine · 04-07-2005, 07:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jazz

Love the pigtails on Lauren.

Thanks for the update!

Me too, lol.

A. B. Normal · 04-20-2005, 05:17 AM

No Lauren mention. Just talk really about how they're looking for a distributor.

Quote:

'LIFE COACH: the movie' needs nurturing distributor to help it achieve its higher potential

LOS ANGELES, Calif.— The tongue-in-cheek comedy’s young producers...need a distributor quickly if theirs is to be the first personal-coaching movie to hit the market.

”Just found out two weeks ago that Paramount has green-lit a life-coach movie. Hope ours gets out there first,” says co-producer Leila Charles Leigh.

She and Jennifer Jostyn and director Josh Stolberg have devoted most of the last two years to making the “extremely low budget” movie. How low? “We put it on our credit cards,” she said.

Low budget, but getting great buzz. Everyone who sees it likes it, she says. And since they put up the http://www.lifecoachthemovie.com website which features the movie’s trailer in dial-up, dsl and super-high-speed streaming video, “we’ve been hearing from life coaches all over the world. They have a great sense of humor and are appreciative of the little jabs. They recognize that what we are doing mostly is poking fun of Los Angeles.”

The faux-documentary, she says, is about “the rise and fall of Hollywood’s premiere life coach. The life coach to all the stars.”

Everyone talks about him, raves about him, but no one really has a clue what he looks like. Because he’s a typical life coach. He works by phone.

Then he decides to change that. To rub shoulders with his glitterati clientele. The climax of the movie centers around the lavish coming out party he plans for himself and his clients. What happens then is…the surprise ending that we aren’t going to give away.

Initial filming was done in six weeks and mostly improvised. And then the next two years were spent going back and re-shooting to fill in holes and get the whole thing to make sense. Plus “shooting lots of little celebrity cameos, fitting those in as they were available,” she said.

Here’s how they describe the birth of the film on the website:

”LIFE COACH: the movie was conceived at a dinner party where a few people had probably had too much to drink. Shooting began immediately. The actors bravely improvised from a ten-page treatment. Conditions were grueling: sexual misconduct was rampant, bagels were scarce, and the actors were subjected to the grossly inflated egos of the temperamental producers.

”When Stolberg (director), Leigh (producer) and Jostyn (producer) weren’t bickering or threatening each other with lawsuits, a film began to take shape.

“LIFE COACH: the movie is an honest and poignant look at Hollywood, a town in which this production team is proud to live. At least until something better comes along.”

Just what do Leigh, Jostyn and Stolberg know about life coaching?

“We talked to quite a few life coaches,” says Leigh. ”We talked to people who had life coaches. We looked at a lot of life coach’s websites.”

Yes?

”But neither my partner nor I have ever had a life coach.”

Not that they wouldn’t consider it. But their credit cards are a bit stretched right now, financing a movie and all…

What if the movie takes off? Things would be different. Consider these excerpts from their bio blurbs:

“Life Coach: the movie is Jostyn’s first writing and producing venture. If Life Coach: the movie is successful, Jostyn feels strongly that she deserves all the credit.”

“Leigh has had a blast collaborating with Jostyn on LIFE COACH: the movie, but truth be told, if the film is successful, she hopes to start her solo career immediately.”

“Stolberg greatly enjoyed his experiences on LIFE COACH: the movie. If the film is successful, he will be flabbergasted.”

That wouldn’t be a problem though. Because if the movie is successful, Stolberg will be able to afford a coach to help him “powerfully transform” that flabbergasted-ness.

(Coaching Insider March 23, 2005-- Volume 1, Issue 3)

Nadine · 04-20-2005, 05:43 AM

Thanks for the article Lex I love that they got it published

gg_obsessed · 07-11-2005, 07:57 PM

So is there any new news on this movie or not? Just wondering! Searching through the threads and tryin to see what I can find. Just a wanderer!

Nadine · 07-11-2005, 07:59 PM

Oh crap I posted the LC info in one of the other threads - forgot it had it's own thread

The film was featured at a festival in May and actually picked up an award for screenwriting, etc.

So it might pop up at other festivals throughout the year. Personally I hope it gets a distributor because it'd be hilarious to watch.

laurengraham · 07-11-2005, 09:00 PM

Yeah I hope so, cuz i really want to see it lol

lovinlauren · 07-11-2005, 11:54 PM

I really hope this movie gets picked up because it sounds like it might be good and Lauren is in it so how could it be bad.

I am lovin't the pigtails too she looks cute

Thanx for the info on the movie A.B normal and gossipcom

gg_obsessed · 07-12-2005, 06:27 AM

I would love to see it too! Hopefully they can release it so we can see it!

Temp · 07-12-2005, 11:17 AM

Alright, I am at work and can’t read this thing in detail, but when was this filmed?

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