An experimental filmmaker takes a job as a driver for a foul-mouthed child actor and his ambitious stage mother.
Acting
Mark Rendall's unhinged child star is terrifyingly plausible.
Writing
McKellar's script bites the hand that feeds it.
Direction
Meta-layered: director plays filmmaker selling his soul.
Director
Don McKellar
Mark Rendall
Taylor Brandon Burns
Don McKellar
Rick Shille
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Suzanne
Brendan Fehr
Chip Metzger
Dave Foley
Philip Templeman
Michael Murphy
Reed Harrison
Peter Paige
Tim
Gil Bellows
Isaac
Alan Thicke
J.R.
Victoria Fodor
Enthusiastic Agent
Patrick Garrow
P.R. Agent
Pamela Redfern
Stewardess
Danielle Miller
Fangirl
Noam Jenkins
Sydney Mehta
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
McKellar wrote the script after observing child actors on set of his earlier films, including the deeply uncomfortable energy of stage parents hovering.
Released during the peak of 'cursed child star' era (Lohan, Bynes, Culkin), it now reads as eerily prophetic documentary rather than satire.
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