Synopsis
Eventually stars burn out.
Driven by an intense need for fame and validation, members of a dysfunctional Hollywood family are chasing celebrity, one another and the relentless ghosts of their pasts.
2014 Directed by David Cronenberg
Driven by an intense need for fame and validation, members of a dysfunctional Hollywood family are chasing celebrity, one another and the relentless ghosts of their pasts.
Julianne Moore Mia Wasikowska John Cusack Evan Bird Robert Pattinson Olivia Williams Sarah Gadon Kiara Glasco Dawn Greenhalgh Jonathan Watton Carrie Fisher Jennifer Gibson Gord Rand Justin Kelly Niamh Wilson Clara Pasieka Emilia McCarthy Allegra Fulton Domenic Ricci Jayne Heitmeyer Sean Robertson Ari Cohen Joe Pingue Christian Lloyd Donald Burda Amanda Brugel Alden Adair David Amito Dan Lett Show All…
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It took two viewings and a two hour discussion to get there, but I'm starting to come around on this movie. It's essentially the incestuous offspring of VIDEODROME and THE BROOD; all child abuse, crackpot therapists, and show business as a sexually transmitted disease. Some have complained that its Hollywood satire feels a little hackneyed -- and they're not wrong. Ultimately, though, that vague sense of staleness fits within MAPS TO THE STARS' suggestion that Hollywood is defined by its complete and utter lack of imagination. There are no new ideas here. The movie Benji is making is a sequel; the movie Havana wants to make is a new version of a film her mother made fifty years ago. In…
The next David Cronenberg and Robert Pattinson film will be about Pattinson slowly turning into a limousine. It will be the third and final film in their Limousine Trilogy.
olivia williams is one of the all-time great movie smokers & pairing her with insincere vaping cusack is so genius its ok that this ends with a welcome-to-my-geocities-page c.g. fire when even the lamest 80s corman cheapie could afford to put a dude in a burnsuit
One of Cronenberg's most disturbing movie to me. Three children die (one asphyxiated on-screen), a dog is murdered, someone is brutally beaten till death, there's several mentions of child drug use, and incest going on with just about everyone. Even the dialogue is extremely harsh in this movie. A lot of it is disturbing because of its realism as well. This movie doesn't have body horror, but it is absolutely mental.
The script is so layered and nuanced. At it's core it's an antifilm with uncomfortably honest observations about Hollywood culture, full of symbolism and social commentary. Then hidden within the messages about nepotism in the industry, aging, and more, is the mythological movie of incestuous love that Agatha wanted…
"Mother-daughter incest is so 80's overkill."
Satire of Hollywood nepotism which takes Cronenberg's signature Freudian sexual politics and turns it into a message about how the film industry is in love with itself.
Julianne Moore has unresolved sexual desires for her mother (Electra complex). She hires Mia Wasikowska because she reminds her of her mother (both were injured in fires, fatally in her mother's case). She tries to get hired in a remake of one of her mother's movies in the role of her mother. Mia Wasikowska tries repeatedly to marry her brother before learning that her parents are also brother and sister. Everyone has too much money ("I can't believe I just spent eighteen thousand dollars!"), takes too many…
If I could lay all of the blame on writer Bruce Wagner, I totally would because I am horribly biased when it comes to my intense love of David Cronenberg.
The heavy handed commentary on Hollywood had many highs and lows throughout Maps to the Stars, which maintained a steady unease within me. The satirical and superficial juxtaposed with how memories can haunt people left the movie feeling very uneven, mixed up or even, I hate to say it but, sloppy.
Julianne Moore and Mia Wasikowska were phenomenal, but I honestly wouldn't expect anything less from them, especially as they were working with a director like Cronenberg who is known for letting actors embody their character and perform naturally from…
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Well, damn.... that was miserable. Seriously, if this film in any way serves as Cronenberg's own sentiment towards the industry I get why he pretty much quit. Pretty much picture a much depressing version of an Altman movie or Magnolia aand you got yourself an idea of this film - a bleak outlook into the unstable minds that often entertain us on the screen, and those seeking to make it into.
In terms of direction and writing, this in many feels like a thematic sequel to Cosmopolis, and I don't mean it because Robert Pattinson is a limo chauffeur, though that was pretty interesting. Many of the editing and sometimes even the…
The idea of Hollywood as a vast Gothic Mansion haunted perpetually by itself is not a new one, but seldom as spot-on and consistently entertaining as in 'Maps To The Stars'. This is Cronenberg at his loosest and most fluidly comedic since maybe 'Shivers'? This is the most Bruce Wagnerian of any of his deals and my favorite of his works, probably including Wild Palms and I really dig Wild Palms. John Cusack deserves some sort of award for therapy-by-negative-example but the entirety of the cast is way excellent. What appears like it might be a sprawling tapestry at first ends up being way seriously Flowers In The Attic in the best and most possible manner. The only downside of…
Cronenberg literally turns the incestuous nature of Hollywood back onto itself in this film of seedy personalities, dark pasts and parodied cliche. At times it is hard to distinguish how the director has positioned the film, as either a pure biting piece of satire or a literal send-up of a poorly written drama. Mostly it feels outdated and adds very little commentary to the subject of stardom.
The set-up is placed between two connecting stories at the opposite end of career progression. Juliane Moore's Havana is an ageing actress struggling to get a recognisable job, sleeping around for favours and stomping her feet like a stroppy teenager when things don't go her way. On the other side 13-year-old Benjie (played…
Maps to the Stars centers on a quite disturbed Hollywood family. It's kind of hard to say more, as the plot is a mess. I usually go for this kind of movies, but now I was ready to bash it halfway through. It did manage to collect some of the strings to a pretty decent whole towards the end, but mostly it's a collection of interesting and less interesting scenes with extremely disturbed characters. Acting ranges from decent to mediocre, with Wasikowska and Moore offering the high notes and Pattinson and Bird the lower ones.
Decent, but weird as hell.
Big mom issues on this one. Still feeling a bit confused about it.
The aesthetic is so good it's uncomfortable, great production design + cinematography teamwork.
Yeah ok, it's not great but I still enjoyed the uncomfortable vibe Cronenberg gave to it. I was entertained.
rewatched this for like the 5th time bc it's the only good thing on that dog shit website Netflix
the vibe of this movie is PERFECT
i love movies about actors and hollywood and stuff like that lol
also it's madd funny at times
incest is always on the menu for me (in movies....)
highly recommend
Great film.
Won’t watch it again alone. Not that it’s scary or anything it’s just that I can’t be bothered to see this again unless someone wanted to watch it with me.
I really don't care if the fire scene was bad and I love how I went from laughing to Juliane Moore being a total whiny bitch to completely horrified.
I cant decide if this film is good or not but Its kinda subtly brutal, mean spirited but tinged with humour and a massive fuck you to holywood and i like it a lot just for that.
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