Childstar R

When you're only famous for fifteen minutes, every second counts
Childstar
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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

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 1,785
Rating: A -- McKeller has crafted a sweet, witty film without employing cliche characterizations and pat plot points. Full Review
Film Scouts
Jun 21, 2007
Rating: C- -- A pointless film about pointless people. Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Sep 15, 2005
Rating: 3/5 -- McKellar's starring turn -- along with a strong final scene -- help him save his own film from the unfortunate crap heap Full Review
Filmcritic.com
Jul 30, 2005
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. Full Review
The Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
Nov 16, 2018
A Canadian version of Dutch.
Planet S Magazine
Feb 20, 2005
Rating: 2.5/4 -- ...a glossy, fast-paced piece of work... Full Review
Reel Film Reviews
Oct 6, 2005

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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