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''Hit and Runway'' is a 1999 American
comedy film The comedy film is a film genre that emphasizes humor. These films are designed to amuse audiences and make them laugh. Films in this genre typically have a happy ending, with dark comedy being an exception to this rule. Comedy is one of the o ...
directed by Christopher Livingston.Emanuel Levy
"Hit and Runway"
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'', May 17, 1999.
The film is a
buddy comedy The buddy film is a subgenre of adventure and comedy film in which two people go on an adventure, mission, or road trip. The two typically are males with contrasting personalities. The contrast is sometimes accentuated by an ethnic difference be ...
centred on the work relationship between Alex Andero (Michael Parducci), a young heterosexual Italian-American waiter, and Elliot Springer (
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), an older gay Jewish playwright, who meet and become friends despite their differences as they collaborate on Alex's idea for a screenplay about an undercover police officer posing as a fashion model.Michael Wilmington
"'Hit and Runway' misses the mark by raiding other films for its jokes"
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'', September 17, 2001.
The film was partially inspired by Livingston and cowriter
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's own process of trying to hammer out their own differences as they began to collaborate on what would become the film's screenplay.Jon Matsumoto, "Using Differences as Grist for Their Script". ''
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'', March 2, 2001.
It won best screenplay at the 1999
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* 1999 films Films about screenwriters 1999 comedy films Films about LGBTQ and Judaism 1990s English-language films American comedy films 1999 LGBTQ-related films American LGBTQ-related films LGBTQ-related buddy comedy films {{1990s-comedy-film-stub