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Maps to the Stars is a canadien film of genre Drama directed by David Cronenberg released in USA on 27 february 2015 with Robert Pattinson

Maps to the Stars (2014)

Maps to the Stars
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Released in USA 27 february 2015
Length 1h51
Directed by
OriginCanada
Genres Drama
Rating61% 3.099973.099973.099973.099973.09997

Maps to the Stars is a 2014 Canadian-French-German-American satirical drama 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 in the United States.

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.

Synopsis

Agatha arrives in Los Angeles and employs limousine driver Jerome to take her to the site of the former house of child star Benjie Weiss. Agatha has severe burns to her face and body, and takes a copious amount of medication. Benjie visits a child suffering from non-Hodgkin lymphoma in the hospital; however, the girl later dies. Benjie’s father, Dr. Stafford Weiss, is a TV psychologist who is treating aging actress Havana Segrand for abuse she suffered at the hands of her deceased mother, also an actress. Havana’s agent struggles to get Havana a role in a remake of her mother’s film Stolen Waters. Havana routinely hallucinates about the deceased younger version of her mother.

Actors

Robert Pattinson

(Jerome Fontana)Mia Wasikowska

(Agatha Weiss)Julianne Moore

(Havana Segrand)John Cusack

(Dr. Stafford Weiss)Carrie Fisher

(Self)
And :
Sarah Gadon
Olivia Williams
Evan Bird
Emilia McCarthy
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