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Maps to the Stars
Maps to the Stars is a 2014 satirical black comedy film directed by David Cronenberg, and starring Julianne Moore, Mia Wasikowska, John Cusack, Robert Pattinson, Olivia Williams, Sarah Gadon, and Evan Bird. The screenplay was written by Bruce Wagner, who had written a novel entitled Dead Stars based on the Maps to the Stars script, after initial plans for making the film with Cronenberg fell through.
This is the second consecutive collaboration between Cronenberg and Pattinson (after Cosmopolis) and marks the third collaboration between Cronenberg and Prospero Pictures, who previously collaborated on A Dangerous Method and Cosmopolis. This is also the third Cronenberg film made with Canadian actress Sarah Gadon. It is the first Cronenberg film shot partially in the United States, although most of it was shot, like his other films, in his native city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
The film concerns the plight of a child star and a washed-up actress while commenting on the entertainment industry's relationship with Western civilization as a whole. The film premiered in competition for the Palme d'Or at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival on May 19, 2014. Moore won the festival's Best Actress Award. Following its premiere at Cannes, the film had a theatrical release in France on May 21, 2014.
Agatha Weiss arrives in Los Angeles from Florida and hires limousine driver Jerome to take her to the site of the former house of her brother Benjie. Agatha has severe burns to her face and body, requiring her to take a copious amount of medication, and is estranged from her parents, Stafford and Cristina Weiss. Benjie, a child star and recovering drug addict, visits a girl suffering from non-Hodgkin lymphoma in the hospital. The girl later dies, and Benjie is confronted by her ghost.
Stafford is a TV psychologist treating aging actress Havana Segrand for trauma from the psychological and sexual abuse she suffered at the hands of her deceased mother, legendary Hollywood star Clarice Taggart. Havana's agent Genie struggles to secure Havana a role in a remake of her mother's film Stolen Waters. Havana regularly suffers from vivid hallucinations of her mother, who taunts and verbally abuses her. At the suggestion of her friend Carrie Fisher, Havana hires Agatha, whom Carrie had met on Twitter, as a personal assistant. Agatha continues to see Jerome, and a romance forms. Stafford is distressed to learn from Havana that Agatha has returned to Los Angeles.
Genie informs Havana that another actress was cast in Stolen Waters, but when the actress's young son unexpectedly dies in an accident, Havana secures the part. Using Havana's role to gain access to the studio lot, Agatha visits Benjie on the set of Bad Babysitter 2, the comedy he is filming as his comeback following drug rehabilitation. Agatha tells him that she has returned from a sanatorium to make amends for setting the fire that burned her and nearly killed him when he was seven. Appalled to learn Agatha visited Benjie, Stafford finds her in her hotel room, gives her $10,000 and tells her to leave Los Angeles.
Benjie relapses, getting high on GHB and shooting his friend Rhett's dog. On set, he is haunted by the girl from the hospital and strangles his young co-star nearly to death during one of his hallucinations. The child survives, but Benjie loses his role in the film and is committed to a hospital. Agatha visits Cristina and reveals that before she set the fire she had discovered that her parents were brother and sister, making Agatha and Benjie children of incest. Cristina tells her they were separated as children and met by coincidence, starting a relationship before they knew of their relation. Stafford comes home, and when Agatha tells him she knows about their incest, he violently beats her until Cristina intervenes. During the altercation, Agatha steals Cristina's wedding ring.
Havana requests Jerome as a driver and seduces him in the backseat of his parked limo in the driveway of her home as Agatha watches from the window. Havana enters the house and berates Agatha for her poor performance at work. When Havana verbally humiliates Agatha for staining her couch with menstrual blood, Agatha beats Havana to death with one of her awards. Benjie escapes the hospital and comes to Havana's house to find Agatha. Agatha instructs Benjie to retrieve her father's ring.
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Maps to the Stars
Maps to the Stars is a 2014 satirical black comedy film directed by David Cronenberg, and starring Julianne Moore, Mia Wasikowska, John Cusack, Robert Pattinson, Olivia Williams, Sarah Gadon, and Evan Bird. The screenplay was written by Bruce Wagner, who had written a novel entitled Dead Stars based on the Maps to the Stars script, after initial plans for making the film with Cronenberg fell through.
This is the second consecutive collaboration between Cronenberg and Pattinson (after Cosmopolis) and marks the third collaboration between Cronenberg and Prospero Pictures, who previously collaborated on A Dangerous Method and Cosmopolis. This is also the third Cronenberg film made with Canadian actress Sarah Gadon. It is the first Cronenberg film shot partially in the United States, although most of it was shot, like his other films, in his native city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
The film concerns the plight of a child star and a washed-up actress while commenting on the entertainment industry's relationship with Western civilization as a whole. The film premiered in competition for the Palme d'Or at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival on May 19, 2014. Moore won the festival's Best Actress Award. Following its premiere at Cannes, the film had a theatrical release in France on May 21, 2014.
Agatha Weiss arrives in Los Angeles from Florida and hires limousine driver Jerome to take her to the site of the former house of her brother Benjie. Agatha has severe burns to her face and body, requiring her to take a copious amount of medication, and is estranged from her parents, Stafford and Cristina Weiss. Benjie, a child star and recovering drug addict, visits a girl suffering from non-Hodgkin lymphoma in the hospital. The girl later dies, and Benjie is confronted by her ghost.
Stafford is a TV psychologist treating aging actress Havana Segrand for trauma from the psychological and sexual abuse she suffered at the hands of her deceased mother, legendary Hollywood star Clarice Taggart. Havana's agent Genie struggles to secure Havana a role in a remake of her mother's film Stolen Waters. Havana regularly suffers from vivid hallucinations of her mother, who taunts and verbally abuses her. At the suggestion of her friend Carrie Fisher, Havana hires Agatha, whom Carrie had met on Twitter, as a personal assistant. Agatha continues to see Jerome, and a romance forms. Stafford is distressed to learn from Havana that Agatha has returned to Los Angeles.
Genie informs Havana that another actress was cast in Stolen Waters, but when the actress's young son unexpectedly dies in an accident, Havana secures the part. Using Havana's role to gain access to the studio lot, Agatha visits Benjie on the set of Bad Babysitter 2, the comedy he is filming as his comeback following drug rehabilitation. Agatha tells him that she has returned from a sanatorium to make amends for setting the fire that burned her and nearly killed him when he was seven. Appalled to learn Agatha visited Benjie, Stafford finds her in her hotel room, gives her $10,000 and tells her to leave Los Angeles.
Benjie relapses, getting high on GHB and shooting his friend Rhett's dog. On set, he is haunted by the girl from the hospital and strangles his young co-star nearly to death during one of his hallucinations. The child survives, but Benjie loses his role in the film and is committed to a hospital. Agatha visits Cristina and reveals that before she set the fire she had discovered that her parents were brother and sister, making Agatha and Benjie children of incest. Cristina tells her they were separated as children and met by coincidence, starting a relationship before they knew of their relation. Stafford comes home, and when Agatha tells him she knows about their incest, he violently beats her until Cristina intervenes. During the altercation, Agatha steals Cristina's wedding ring.
Havana requests Jerome as a driver and seduces him in the backseat of his parked limo in the driveway of her home as Agatha watches from the window. Havana enters the house and berates Agatha for her poor performance at work. When Havana verbally humiliates Agatha for staining her couch with menstrual blood, Agatha beats Havana to death with one of her awards. Benjie escapes the hospital and comes to Havana's house to find Agatha. Agatha instructs Benjie to retrieve her father's ring.