Margarita Happy Hour

MARGARITA HAPPY HOUR
 
 
Ilya Chaiken  (born February 10, 1973) is an American film director and screenwriter.  She is best known for her debut feature Margarita Happy Hour, a film about motherhood, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2001 and went on to the Los Angeles Film Festival and Toronto International Film Festival.  (More from Wikipedia)
 
 

Holly Ramos moved on to acting for a while after Fur broke up.  Ramos had a starring role in the 2001 indie film Margarita Happy Hour that also featured the Fur song Sex Drive in the soundtrack.  Holly Ramos also wrote, produced and starred in a 2004 short film called The 100 Lovers of Jesus Reynolds

 

(June 2013/2)

 

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I knew that Holly Ramos had worked in film as well as music in my research for the post on her punk rock band Fur more than five years ago.  In silent testimony to her acumen in the acting field, Holly appears in four different photographs on the cover and in the booklet and also on the Fur CD itself.  By looking closely, you can tell that it is Holly in all four pictures, but her look is startlingly different in each of them. 
 
Holly Ramos was one of the actors in a 2001 independent film that was the debut feature by Ilya Chaiken called Margarita Happy Hour.  The Fur song Sex Drive was featured in the soundtrack for this film.  The movie was nominated for a Prism Award; from Wikipedia:  “The Annual Prism Awards honor the creative community for accurate portrayals of substance abuse, addiction and mental health in entertainment programming.” 
 
(Year 9 Review)
 
Last edited: March 22, 2021