The American Film Market is currently the showcase for many future projects in finding finance and/or distribution deals. The event also allows filmmakers to offer the first look at their upcoming project already completed. Thus, here is the first look at legendary director David Cronenberg’s new dark, dysfunctional family drama MAPS TO THE STARS, which centres on the “skeletons in the closet” of a famous Hollywood talent dynasty. The impressive cast includes John Cusack, Julianne Moore, Mia Wasikowska, Robert Pattinson, Olivia Williams and Sarah Gadon.
The Weiss family is the archetypical Hollywood dynasty: father Sanford is an analyst and coach, who has made a fortune with his self-help manuals; mother Christina mostly looks after the career of their son Benjie, 13, a child star.
One of Sanford’s clients, Havana, is an actress who dreams of shooting a remake of the movie that made her mother, Clarice, a star in the ’60s. Clarice is dead now and visions of her come to haunt Havana at night. Adding to the toxic mix, Benjie has just come off a rehab program he joined when he was 9 and his sister, Agatha, has recently been released from a sanatorium where she was treated for criminal pyromania…
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