Childstar (tbc)
- Run time: 1 hour 38 mins
- Genre: Comedy
- Release date: Unknown
- Starring: Don McKellar, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Mark Rendall
- Directed by: Don McKellar
- Official Website: www.childstar-movie.com
- Distributor: Rhombus Media Inc
Plot Synopsis
When you’re only famous for fifteen minutes, every second counts. CHILDSTAR follows a child actor and his demanding stage mother, played by Jennifer Jason Leigh, throughout a film production from location to home and everywhere in between.
Eric Stolz plays the absentee surfer-dude dad, and the child and star in question is Taylor Brandon Burns, most famous for his role as an ‘angelic’ character in the sitcom "Family Feuds" wherein a solution to every conceivable problem is found within the space of 25 minutes. In reality, Taylor’s own life couldn’t be farther from his television persona: his parents are in the throes of a divorce and he is hitting puberty. When he arrives in Toronto to shoot a very American action movie it is very clear that he is accustomed to having his every whim indulged. Things change, however, when he meets a crew member played by Don McKellar (THE RED VIOLIN, LAST NIGHT). CHILDSTAR is a fantastic satire of the film industry’s behind-the-scenes world, but it also has some very serious things to say about family in all of its many, often bizarre, forms.
