MAPS TO THE STARS Trailer | New Release 2014

Directed by David Cronenberg
(18A)
Julianne Moore, John Cusack, Mia Wasikowska and Robert Pattinson star in this acidulous vision of Tinseltown from Canadian master David Cronenberg.
Working from a wicked script by novelist Bruce Wagner, acclaimed director David Cronenberg strips Tinseltown bare in this fiendish and fiercely intelligent satire of the movie business. Havana Segrand (Julianne Moore) is a desperate and insecure middle-aged actress scheming remorselessly to land the lead in a remake of a film her mother starred in years ago. She divulges a flood of inner fears and childhood traumas to her therapist (John Cusack), a TV psychologist and self-help guru with troubles of his own, including a teenaged movie-megastar son whose career is already threatened by his out-of-control ego and drug problems. To this ensemble of eccentrics add Agatha (Mia Wasikowska), a pyromaniac who gets hired as Havana's assistant based on a Twitter friendship with Carrie Fisher (playing herself ); Jerome (Robert Pattinson), a limo driver, struggling actor and aspiring screenwriter; and various wives, agents, and phantoms who stroll periodically through the carnage. Gleefully dissecting a milieu driven by all the wrong values, Maps to the Stars is another outrageous, disturbing new work from a contemporary master.
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[@BikiniDeathSquad]

I love how Cronenberg never changed but just became more subtle with his Cronenberginess. The fact that the housekeeper has burned arms and wears long gloves over them is exactly the kind of plot details that makes his films so interesting in my opinion.

[@LannieLord]

Is this movie any good ?

[@nicolasrayspikenicolasray3100]

It's actually pretty good - sort of Less than zero meets Mulholland Drive meets Shortcuts. LA. Great actors. Pretty funny. A bit deliberate in its cronenberginess and twistedness. Hollywood hypocrisy and neurosis aren't the most original subject matters, but ultimately it's still quite refreshing.