Child Star

"Child Star" is a documentary featuring Demi Lovato. It ostensibly is about the damage that occurs to child stars...on TV, in movies and on the internet. However, at times it seems more about Lovato in particular and a few of her friends and not the broader topic of child exploitation.

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.

There was too many people in this short time to get into anything other than surface level, this should have been a series with one child star per episode. Hour long for each person, details of struggles and lack of support in The industry and how they coped and got to survive today, so disappointing.

Think it is commendable though to be at least approaching these topics and having Demi as the lead made sense.

Please can someone try this again with more grit. Alyson has so much to her history and we heard hardly any of it just that her and Demi half got on half didn't but understood each other...

Some directors like to make themselves a part of the project, much to the detriment of the project. Nas is guilty of making himself part of docs he directs. Demi Lovato apparently does the same. This is a movie about her experience with child stardom, with some comments from other people who experienced similar. That being said, nothing was new in the doc, just rehashed information she previously included in other projects, with one exception: most states, Florida included, don't have Coogan Laws to protect the income of children; similarly, there seem to be zero (or one with Washington State) that protect child internet performers' incomes. Otherwise, the doc is a massive waste of time.

The documentary is most about Demi, I mean, she's the director and it was her own story who inspired her to make this documentary. The other stars have their part and they're very vulnerable and add a lot to the conversation, and it's good to have different generations on it. It's importante to have more stuff like this. It raises awareness about such important topic. The only negative thing I can think is that maybe they could go deeper, cause Demi has said she was abused on Disney, so I would like they speak about it, but I think it was intentional, maybe she didn't want to go that deep. I enjoyed the doc, it's really easy to digest.

Really liked this. Ive seen demi's other documentaries and i'm usually impressed, but this was definitely the best one. Seeing the same issues, across different generations, they really do only get better in the eyes of law, and worse with the social media and instant access everyone has these days. It was really cool seeing all these faces i recognized from growing up, and how it's impacted their lives. I think overall, i might feel the worst for jojo siwa. Jojo is the first child star, to truly grow up with social media in it's full effect. We saw miley and bieber live with it, and they molded it, but now, jojo is expected to do all of these extra things, on extra platforms. With more merch as things become "trending" online faster than ever. Its honestly baffling. I wish good things for these people.