Childstar R
When you're only famous for fifteen minutes, every second counts
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 38 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 13, 2005
- Originally Released: 2005
- Label: Virgil Films
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jennifer Jason Leigh, Don McKellar & Mark Rendall | |
Performer: | Alan Thicke, Eric Stoltz, Dave Foley, Brendan Fehr & Gil Bellows | |
Directed by | Don McKellar | |
Edited by | Reginald Harkema | |
Screenwriting by | Don McKellar & Michael Goldbach | |
Composition by | Christopher Dedrick | |
Produced by | Niv Fichman, Daniel Iron & Jennifer Jonas | |
Director of Photography: | André Turpin |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: A --
McKeller has crafted a sweet, witty film without employing cliche characterizations and pat plot points.
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Film Scouts
Rating: C- --
A pointless film about pointless people.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: 3/5 --
McKellar's starring turn -- along with a strong final scene -- help him save his own film from the unfortunate crap heap
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Filmcritic.com
Mike Goldbach wrote Childstar in 2004; this is his first feature as writer-director, and it's nimble and full of visual tricks, funny and sexy, yet somehow a suspenseful thriller.
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The Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
A Canadian version of Dutch.
Planet S Magazine
Rating: 2.5/4 --
...a glossy, fast-paced piece of work...
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Product Description:
Canadian actor/director Don McKellar (HIGHWAY 61, EXOTICA, LAST NIGHT) skewers the self-obsessed world of Hollywood celebrity with his wry indie comedy, CHILDSTAR. As the popular star of a top-rated American sitcom, 12-year-old Taylor Brandon Burns (Mark Rendall) is a spoiled, world-weary cynic facing the dual pressures of stardom and impending puberty. Sent on location to Toronto, Canada, Taylor suffers a mini-breakdown and runs away from the set, prompting his overbearing show-biz mother, Suzanne (Jennifer Jason Leigh), to enlist the help of their resentful limo driver, Rick Schiller (McKellar), himself a struggling filmmaker. Bolstered by McKellar's trademark low-key humor and emotional complexity, CHILDSTAR is both a gleeful Hollywood satire and a poignant coming-of-age dramedy.
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