Childstar

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Jerod S @jeroduptown Jun 17, 2023 I think it was meant to pack more of a punch towards the hollywood lifestyle - but it wasn't really gritty or funny. Maybe why McKellar didn't have much of a shiny career...he didn't do much as the driver. See more

Dec 28, 2016 McKellar's starring turn -- along with a strong final scene -- help him save his own film from the unfortunate crap heap. See more

Sep 20, 2014 A decent effort by director/writer/actor Don McKellar, but just not interesting or funny enough to be great. A few laughs from the smaller roles, and McKellar's acting always cracks me up. See more

Mike M @RT59071784 Dec 22, 2009 Shot with great care - more than a comparable American feature would expend on a throwaway premise like this - it's well-observed, but probably just too forgiving for its own good: we're finally supposed to like the brat, or at least recognise the circumstances that have led to his behaviour, and warm to his mother, who apparently only "saw an opportunity, and took it"... There's the germ of a good idea about the way our rush for novelty has led to a heightened level of attention for ever-younger performers - something Robert Pattinson has complained about, if not Zac Efron (or, indeed, Shirley Temple: 'twas, indeed, ever thus) - and it retains a certain left-of-centre charm, but does feel like one of those late 20th/early 21st century scripts (cf. Woody Allen's "Celebrity" and Paul Weitz's "American Dreamz") that had something urgent to say on the matter of celebrity culture, only to forget precisely what en route to the screen. See more

Aug 13, 2009 The ending really sums up the film. ( I had to rewind the picture a few times to understand what the kid was saying ). The last 30 seconds of the film pretty much put what the picture is about into perspoective. This movie touches on some of the higher points of being a childstar, looking at it from all diffrent angles. Though the plot really gets boring after awhile. I personally don't understand why the kid hit him with the tri-pod , but hey it brough it to a close. You can tell the McKellar got fustrated working with the newbian Fehr, or they had a standing relationship and he was trying mto mprove a point. See more

Mar 25, 2009 The acting isn't always spot on, but the movie takes on a risky plot and succeeds for the most part. See more

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