An unlikely friendship forms between 21 year-old Jane and the elderly Sadie after Jane discovers a hidden stash of money inside an object at Sadie's yard sale.
Acting
Besedka Johnson's first and only role—utterly authentic, never performed.
Direction
Baker's documentary eye finds poetry in strip malls and yard sales.
Cinematography
35mm film soaking up Valley light like a memory you can't place.
Director
Sean Baker
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Besedka Johnson was discovered at a YMCA—she'd never acted before and never did again. Died two years after release.
Shot in actual adult performers' homes; Starlet was Baker's breakthrough before Tangerine and The Florida Project.
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