Maps to the Stars

The(ir) Blurb...

The Weiss family is the archetypical Hollywood dynasty: father Stafford is an analyst and coach, who has made a fortune with his self-help manuals; mother Cristina mostly looks after the career of their son Benjie, 13, a child star. One of Stafford'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 and befriended a limo driver Jerome who is also an aspiring actor.

Director David Cronenberg’s attempt at a satirical drama about the dark and twisted private lives of celebrities features Julianne Moore as washed-up actress Havana Segrand. Havana, who is in therapy for abuse suffered at the hands of her actress mother, is obsessed with the idea of re-launching her career by reprising her mother’s star-making role in a remake of her film. At one point, Havana engages in a threesome with a male producer and another woman in an effort to get on the producer’s good side, and has a hallucination that the woman turns into her mother. She runs out, and when the man asks what happened, she replies, “I’m sorry, I just got uncomfortable. I guess I’m a lousy d*ke.” Given that this threesome seems to be more situational or transactional than representative of genuine interest, GLAAD did not count Havana as a bisexual character in its final tally.

Seriously, you have to put an * in dyke?!?! Who writes this stuff?!?