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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0829567027424
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Sundance Channel Home Entertainment
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageUnknown
Manufacturer: Sundance Channel Home Entertainment
MPN: D02742D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sundance Channel Home Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 13, 2005
Running Time: 99 minutes
Studio: Sundance Channel Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: June 11, 2005
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Taylor brandon burns a conflicted 12 year old tv star fron the u.S. runs away from the set & his problems while shooting a big-budget film in canada. His reluctant limo driver rick schiller a down-on-his-luck undie filmmaker is enlisted to find taylor before the childstar destroys himself. Studio: Arts Alliance America Release Date: 02/26/2008 Starring: Jennifer Jason Leigh Mark Rendall Run time: 98 minutes
Amazon.com:
Billed as an eccentric, funny film, this award-winning Canadian import from director/actor Don McKellar (eXistanZ, The Red Violin) is more drama than comedy; a multi-layered, provocative satire of the movie industry and its self-serving exploitation of child celebrities. Childstar is the story of Taylor Brandon Burns (Mark Rendall), a spoiled 12-year-old American megastar and his self-absorbed mother, Suzanne (Jennifer Jason Leigh), together in Canada while Taylor films a big budget movie. Shockingly insolent on the exterior, Taylor struggles with conflicting emotions of anger and apathy and, at the point of despair, runs away with a prostitute. Enter Rick Schiller (Don McKellar), a hapless indie filmmaker picking up a paycheck as Taylor's limo-driver who is now enlisted to find the boy before he destroys himself. With camera in hand, Rick can't help but see Taylor's life as a movie while he attempts to engage Taylor as a friend. Perhaps intentionally, this movie-about-a-movie-about-a-movie eschews a single raison d'être in favor of many. At times wry, it is also a sobering statement on America's celebrity culture. Most notable is the film's cinematography--artsy, innovative, and, at times, disturbing. With standout performances by McKellar and Leigh, viewers can't miss the message on child stars explicit in the script: "When they hit puberty, we chew them up and spit them out; they spend the rest of their lives entertaining us in the tabloids." Rated R for extreme language and sexual content. --Lynn Gibson
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Rating:  -
A good movie, made that way by good performances, nonsentimentality, and dark comedy (the police raid on Eric Stoltz' house was especially funny). Good performance by Mark Rendall. The movie, overall, was uninvolving.
Rating:  -
Mark Rendall was excellent as the child star and showed he has some range. The film unfolds great catching me thinking it was going one way and it went another. That doesn't happen often and made it enjoyable for me. This is a lite comedy, so don't think is film is going to bust your gut, but I think most people will be entertained.
Rating: -
What is it with Don McKellar and why do you keep seeing him in the movies? Does he represent some sort of Canadian triple threat like Orson Welles did in the USA? All through the two hours of CHILDSTAR I kept wondering about the casting agents who said, "A perfect fit for our Don McKellar!" To those of you who don't know who I'm talking about, he's in every Canadian movie that manages to cross the border to the US--the so called "nylon curtain." He's a little bit like Woody Allen, with his constant ... Read More
Rating:  -
So-So story about a man's relationship with a less than pleasant child star and said child star's mother.
Like that old Dickie Roberts movie, it tries to say something about the plight of former and soon to be former child stars, but does not do a good job of it.
Mickey Rooney and Shirley Temple, where are you when we need you?
Rating: -
Childstar is a funny (yet at the same time funny) movie. It has good acting, and an original story. Childstar is a little indie film that's quaint and witty.
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