Child Star
- 2024
- 1h 38min
Il examine comment certains des anciens enfants stars les plus connus, comme Lovato, déconstruisent les hauts et les bas de leur enfance sous les feux de la rampe et comment leur accession à... Tout lireIl examine comment certains des anciens enfants stars les plus connus, comme Lovato, déconstruisent les hauts et les bas de leur enfance sous les feux de la rampe et comment leur accession à la célébrité, à la richesse et au pouvoir.Il examine comment certains des anciens enfants stars les plus connus, comme Lovato, déconstruisent les hauts et les bas de leur enfance sous les feux de la rampe et comment leur accession à la célébrité, à la richesse et au pouvoir.
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- Self - Demi's Fiancé
- (as Jordan)
- Self - Developmental Psychologist
- (as Dr. Yalda Uhis)
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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...
If you are looking for an exposee which shows the damage done to child actors by their parents and movie/TV studios, you can do MUCH better than this one. While the documentary talks about SOME of the issues concerning the exploitation of kids in the media, it also seems like it's very careful to excuse the studios and parents. Well, if they aren't to blame for the exploitation....why is?? And, it doesn't surprise me that the film is distributed by Disney...a corporation with a VERY bad history of child stars who run off the rails.
The film also seems to be leaving out a LOT in regard to Lovato. While it talks about her recent projects and SOME of her difficulties, it all feels very sanitized and leaves out some very important questions...such as about her parents' involvement in creating some of these problems. The father is never mentioned and her mother is pretty much given a pass. Overall, a mildly interesting film but one that manages to miss the mark.
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- AnecdotesCo-Director Demi Lovato wrote and performed the song "You'll Be OK, Kid" especially for this film due to the connection it has with the themes of the documentary.
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Chris Columbus: I just felt a tremendous responsibility to the actors that they knew what they were getting into. Kids signed for-- on for, like, five movies. That's the rest of your life as a child star.
- ConnexionsFeatures Les 2 sirènes (1990)
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- Durée1 heure 38 minutes
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