Child Star

2024

Documentary

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 89% · 8 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 89% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.5/10 10 1430 1.4K

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Plot summary

Explore the highs and lows of growing up in the spotlight through the lens of some of the world’s most famous former child stars. Through celebrity interviews, verite scenes, and archival footage, this film deconstructs the stages of earlier stardom and looks at the entertainment system over the last century.

Director

Demi Lovato Photo
Demi Lovato

Top cast

Emma Watson Photo
Emma Watson as Self - Actress, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Steven Spielberg Photo
Steven Spielberg as Self - Director, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Daniel Radcliffe Photo
Daniel Radcliffe as Self - Actor, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Christina Ricci Photo
Christina Ricci as Self
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1 hr 37 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by imseeg 7 / 10

Kids wanna be famous, grownups wanna make money.

Famous childstars on average die 14 years earlier and they have a 4 times increased chance of dying by suicide. Those are the grim statistics behind this documentary which gives a detailed insight into the Disney childstar Demi Lovato... whom I have never heard of but apparently she was HUGELY popular.We mostly get to see demi lovato talk to other childstars (Drew Barrymore and Christina Ricci for instance) and the recurring theme is that almost all of them suffered from their huge fame and started to use drugs and alchohol to cope with a life they had no real control over.These childstars are being squeezed out for every penny they can make and the more popular they become the more a product they become up to a point that certain childstars became wall street products which could be sold and bought at the stock exchange! Currently the childstar content is valued at over 500 billion dollars.Incredible to see how these kids are being treated. Money, money and more money is the culprit behind this behaviour towards these kids whose only dream is to become famous, but adults wanna make money of their fame. The way in which money overrules the healthy development of childstars' lives is what this documentary is all about.This documentary starts out unassuming and without the bleak and grim statistics, but have some patience and please watch it till the end, because then you get to see the real damage done to this famous childstars...
Reviewed by katmc86 8 / 10

Much better than I expected

I put this on in the background while I was doing some work...I soon realized I'd stopped working and was just watching. I've not followed Demi Levoto's career, and only know what I know about her through the media. Hearing her story told like that was eye-opening and gave me a new respect for her and what she's been through.I would have liked to hear more from the other child stars, however I did feel that what they contributed was valuable in painting a fairly clear picture of the impacts of the industry. It also would have been nice to dig a little deeper into child stars of the past as well, however I did appreciate that it included insight people from multiple roles in and around the industry.Definitely worth a watch!
Reviewed by actuallyjessmarie 6 / 10

Okay watch

I was impressed first off with the range of child stars she was able to talk to that have had success after child stardom and were a variety of ages. To be honest I don't think there is any revelations that you will learn from this documentary that you wouldn't already know if you follow the lives that many child actors have had. With the names they were able to get I guess I just wish there was a bit more substance. One thing I wish these documentaries would cover more is the internet side of exploitation with people using children however I think that will have to wait till the children now are older. One thing I did find a bit interesting was seeing Scooter Braun was a producer given the ages of people he has signed and their own issues with fame. Also, why is Keenan wearing sunglasses the entire time, there was absolutely no sun in that diner. I think if you are interested in how child acting can affect the kids this is an okay watch.
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