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Maps to the Stars

  • 20142014
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  • 1h 51m
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6.2/10
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John Cusack, Julianne Moore, Robert Pattinson, and Mia Wasikowska in Maps to the Stars (2014)
A tour into the heart of a Hollywood family chasing celebrity, one another and the relentless ghosts of their pasts.
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A tour into the heart of a Hollywood family chasing celebrity, one another and the relentless ghosts of their pasts.A tour into the heart of a Hollywood family chasing celebrity, one another and the relentless ghosts of their pasts.A tour into the heart of a Hollywood family chasing celebrity, one another and the relentless ghosts of their pasts.
IMDb RATING
6.2/10
41K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
5,510
34
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    • Director
      • David Cronenberg
    • Writer
      • Bruce Wagner(screenplay)
    • Stars
      • Julianne Moore
      • Mia Wasikowska
      • Robert Pattinson
    Top credits
    • Director
      • David Cronenberg
    • Writer
      • Bruce Wagner(screenplay)
    • Stars
      • Julianne Moore
      • Mia Wasikowska
      • Robert Pattinson
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 165User reviews
    • 324Critic reviews
    • 67Metascore
    • Awards
      • 11 wins & 24 nominations

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    Trailer 2:04
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    Clip 0:44
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    "How Did You Find Me?"
    Clip 1:57
    "How Did You Find Me?"
    "Shopping Outing"
    Clip 6:18
    "Shopping Outing"
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    Featurette 2:39
    Maps to the Stars

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    Julianne Moore and Mia Wasikowska in Maps to the Stars (2014)
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    Julianne Moore in Maps to the Stars (2014)
    John Cusack and Mia Wasikowska in Maps to the Stars (2014)

    Top cast

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    Julianne Moore
    Julianne Moore
    • Havana Segrand
    Mia Wasikowska
    Mia Wasikowska
    • Agatha Weiss
    Robert Pattinson
    Robert Pattinson
    • Jerome Fontana
    John Cusack
    John Cusack
    • Dr. Stafford Weiss
    Evan Bird
    Evan Bird
    • Benjie Weiss
    Olivia Williams
    Olivia Williams
    • Christina Weiss
    Kiara Glasco
    Kiara Glasco
    • Cammy
    Sarah Gadon
    Sarah Gadon
    • Clarice Taggart
    Dawn Greenhalgh
    Dawn Greenhalgh
    • Genie
    Jonathan Watton
    Jonathan Watton
    • Sterl Carruth
    Jennifer Gibson
    Jennifer Gibson
    • Starla Gent
    Gord Rand
    Gord Rand
    • Damien Javitz
    Justin Kelly
    Justin Kelly
    • Rhett
    Niamh Wilson
    Niamh Wilson
    • Sam
    Clara Pasieka
    Clara Pasieka
    • Gretchen Voss
    Emilia McCarthy
    Emilia McCarthy
    • Kayla
    Allegra Fulton
    Allegra Fulton
    • Harriet
    Domenic Ricci
    • Micah
    • Director
      • David Cronenberg
    • Writer
      • Bruce Wagner(screenplay)
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    • Trivia
      According to screenwriter Bruce Wagner, the casting of Robert Pattinson was what finally got the movie made, financially speaking.
    • Goofs
      When Jerome is driving Havana, they are in a long wheelbase 'L' version of Lincoln Town Car, when they've arrived at her house and are having sex in the back, they are in a standard wheelbase version (it has a shorter quarter glass section in the rear door window).
    • Quotes

      Agatha Weiss: [Agatha recites poetry from Paul Éluard's poem, Liberty, translated from French] On my school notebook, on my desk and the trees, on the sand and the snow, I write your name. On all the flesh that says yes, on the forehead of my friends, on every hand held out, I write your name. Liberty.

    • Connections
      Featured in Renegade Cut: Maps to the Stars (2015)
    • Soundtracks
      Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye
      Written by Gary DeCarlo,Paul Leka and Dale Frashuer

      Performed by Julianne Moore and Mia Wasikowska

    User reviews165

    Review
    Top review
    8/10
    Maps to the Stars is about the aspects of Hollywood that, as a film fan, I'd rather not think about
    Written by the acerbic Bruce Wagner, Maps to the Stars is about the cynicism of the entertainment industry, about the actors who are motivated by vanity and the money-minded executives who exploit them. These people's heads have been long removed from their shoulders, their molly-coddled lives are run by other people as they incessantly try and top up their serotonin through drink, drugs, sex and bastardised spiritualism with increasingly less success. It has been called 'narratively unwieldy' by the 'tomato-meter', and the events in the latter stages of the film are certainly dramatic and in quick succession, however Maps to the Stars is a great, grotesque satire from David Cronenberg, who could also be described in such terms!

    Julianne Moore is brilliantly unhinged and crude as Havana Segrand, a deeply warped, neurotic actress who's haunted by the vivid apparition of her actress mother Clarice Taggart (Sarah Gadon) who died in a fire. When she's isolated in her large home, she's never far away from a breakdown, and we see her experience particularly wayward instability as she obsesses over securing the lead role in the remake of a film her mother starred in. Havana has expired her Hollywood leading lady shelf-life, however she's desperate to be at the forefront of the business and in the process has ground herself down into a drug addled, hallucinating mess. Havana's manipulative conversations with colleagues makes for awkward viewing, she fawns at a moment's notice, even with people who privately drive her into psychotic episodes.

    Evan Bird is very good as Benjie, a child star who is often obnoxious but really a product of his clearly unhealthy environment. He is introduced to us in a hospital room as he visits a young terminally ill fan with Hodgkins Lymphoma; when presented with such misery he deals with it the only way he knows how by arranging for her to be given an iPad. After this he has a brief argument with his adult assistant, the sweary exchange is concluded with Benjie calling him a 'Jew faggot'.

    His sometimes vulgar, churlish exterior belies a rather precocious character with an articulacy that's beyond his years. Even when he's unpleasant he's not entirely loathsome, his language is so gratuitous that it was almost comical, especially when expressing his unashamed contempt for the sycophants around him. I suppose he was hard to take seriously owing to his elongated neck and sloped, pre-pubescent shoulders.

    Agatha (Mia Wasikowska) is a timid, unusual young woman who, with multiple burns across her body, is destined to fail in the industry. She's in Los Angeles after corresponding with Carrie Fisher on Twitter, and Agatha soon finds herself being interviewed for the position of 'chore whore' for Havana. It is here that her burns actually help her odds in Hollywood, as the injuries remind Havana of her mother. It eventually arises that Agatha is in the city to 'make amends', unravelling a twisted cauldron of lies and incest.

    John Cusack is also well cast as Stafford Weiss, the self-help charlatan father of Benjie who is made very creepy by Cusack's dark, dead eyes and blank expression. His wife is Christina (Olivia Williams), a woman bereft of any charisma who spends much of her time posturing anxiously with a cigarette in her hand.

    Unlike Cosmopolis, Robert Pattinson's character Jerome Fontana, a shy limo driver with ambitions of being an actor/screenwriter, is strictly a supporting one. In a film full of freaks, Jerome is the ordinary Hollywood wannabe, the one with which we can most relate to. However it appears his foray into this glitzy, red carpeted hell is in its infancy, he mentions to Agatha early in the film, albeit half-heartedly, that he's considering Scientology for better career prospects, which is an amusing dig at both fad culture and that absurd, unsettling religion.

    I'm not sure what to make of the film's final act, everything goes awry for the characters in a manner that is perhaps too fast and too crazy. I tried to get the measure of the aberrance and the immorality upon leaving the cinema, I wondered whether Maps to the Stars was grounded in much reality, I then remembered Natalie Wood, the Black Dahlia, Elliot Rodger and the myriad other of Hollywood's victims, pill- poppers and prima donnas.

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    Details

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    • Release date
      • February 27, 2015 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • Canada
      • Germany
      • France
      • United States
    • Official site
      • Official site (Japan)
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Bailey's Quest
    • Filming locations
      • Revival 629, 629 Eastern Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Production companies
      • Prospero Pictures
      • Sentient Entertainment
      • SBS Productions
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $15,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $350,741
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $143,422
      • Mar 1, 2015
    • Gross worldwide
      • $4,510,934
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 51 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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