Childstar

2004
R
1h 38m

IMDb RATING

6.0/10

1.1K

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Home Video Trailer from Heartland Productions

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Comedy Drama

An experimental filmmaker takes a job as a driver for a foul-mouthed child actor and his ambitious stage mother.An experimental filmmaker takes a job as a driver for a foul-mouthed child actor and his ambitious stage mother.An experimental filmmaker takes a job as a driver for a foul-mouthed child actor and his ambitious stage mother.

Director
- Don McKellar
Writers
- Don McKellar
- Michael Goldbach
Stars

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IMDb RATING

6.0/10

1.1K

YOUR RATING

Director
- Don McKellar
Writers
- Don McKellar
- Michael Goldbach
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 6 wins & 9 nominations total

Videos1

Trailer 1:43

Childstar

Photos5

Storyline

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Trivia
Filmed in 19 days.

Goofs
When Fresno and his band are rehearsing, we hear a vibraphone in the background. Assuming the keyboard player is using a synthesizer, playing that sound (which is unlikely since the keyboard looks more like a Fender Rhodes electric piano, which produces quite a different sound), his hand and finger movements don't match the vibraphone notes that we hear.

Quotes
[Natalie and Taylor have snuck onto the White House set to have sex]
Taylor Brandon Burns: So where do you want to do it? The Oval Office, The Greenroom, the Lincoln Bedroom ?
Natalie: It's your fantasy; I'm Canadian.

Crazy credits
The audio from the film (called "The First Son") that they are making within this movie plays over the end credits.

Connections
Referenced in I Like Movies (2022)

Soundtracks
C Minor Lament for Arnold and Willis
Performed by CookieDuster
Written by Bernard Maiezza and Brendan Canning (SOCAN)
Published by CookieDuster (SOCAN)
Courtesy of CookieDuster

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Review

Featured review

9/10

It's Not Rocket Science

How much I enjoyed this film surprised me. (I saw it at the Philadelphia Film Festival the day after I saw "Checking Out" with Peter Falk. Sothat's saying a lot.)

"Childstar" is a droll send-up of fawning over child stars in our culture, and of being a person low on the film industry totem pole. There is a lot of clever, well-produced stuff in this film. My only negative comment is that too much seems to have been directly lifted from an episode of The Nanny, "When You Pish Upon a Star."

I will go to see any film with Jennifer Jason Leigh. Her arc seems to be like that of Geneviève Bujold before her. Leigh seems to have managed to be in a lower proportion of turkeys than Bujold, so far. Her performance this time worked for me.

Likewise the performance of Don McKellar in his own film was just fine. More power to him!