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      Childstar

      R Released Sep 10, 2004 1 hr. 39 min. Comedy Drama List
      78% 9 Reviews Tomatometer 42% 1,000+ Ratings Audience Score Accompanied by his mother (Jennifer Jason Leigh), a 12-year-old actor (Mark Rendall) from a hit sitcom flies to Canada to star in a movie. Read More Read Less

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      Jerod S 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. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 06/17/23 Full Review Audience Member McKellar's starring turn -- along with a strong final scene -- help him save his own film from the unfortunate crap heap. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Audience Member 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. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/18/23 Full Review Mike M 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. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 12/22/09 Full Review Audience Member 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. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review Audience Member The acting isn't always spot on, but the movie takes on a risky plot and succeeds for the most part. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/15/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Geoff Pevere Toronto Star Rated: 3/5 Feb 19, 2005 Full Review Tara Thorne The Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia) 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. Nov 17, 2018 Full Review Jason Gorber Film Scouts McKeller has crafted a sweet, witty film without employing cliche characterizations and pat plot points. Rated: A Jun 21, 2007 Full Review Film Threat Rated: 3.5/5 Dec 6, 2005 Full Review David Nusair Reel Film Reviews ...a glossy, fast-paced piece of work... Rated: 2.5/4 Oct 6, 2005 Full Review Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews A pointless film about pointless people. Rated: C- Sep 15, 2005 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis Accompanied by his mother (Jennifer Jason Leigh), a 12-year-old actor (Mark Rendall) from a hit sitcom flies to Canada to star in a movie.
      Director
      Don McKellar
      Screenwriter
      Don McKellar, Michael Goldbach
      Rating
      R (Some Sexual Content|Language)
      Genre
      Comedy, Drama
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Sep 10, 2004, Original
      Release Date (DVD)
      Sep 13, 2005