Wednesday 18 June 2014

Starlet (2012) 7/10

Starring : Dree Hemingway, Besedka Johnson, Stella Maeve, James Ransome
Director : Sean Baker
Running Time : 104 mins

When aspiring adult actress and casual drug user Jane (Hemingway) finds a stash of money hidden inside a thermos she bought at a yard sale, she decides to impose herself in the life of lonely widow Sadie (Johnson), the original owner of the object. After a shaky start, the two of them soon form an unlikely friendship.

Although this started off slow, it did start to pick up once Jane meets Sadie, but there was a little too much focus on ths issues surrounding Jane’s friends and the porn industry and not enough focussing on her relationship with Sadie. Granted, you needed both to compare and contrast to get the full effect of the relationship between the two leads, but this could have been better if Jane wasn’t so one-dimensional.

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