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Overview

User Rating:
6.1/10   732 votes
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Director:
Don McKellar
Writers:
Michael Goldbach (writer)
Don McKellar (writer)
Contact:
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Release Date:
11 June 2005 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy more
Tagline:
When you're only famous for fifteen minutes, every second counts.
Plot:
Taylor Brandon Burns, a conflicted twelve-year-old TV star from the U.S., runs away from the set - and his problems... more | add synopsis
Awards:
6 wins & 6 nominations more
User Comments:
embarrassing more (14 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Don McKellar ... Rick

Peter Paige ... Tim

Gil Bellows ... Isaac
Victoria Fodor ... Enthusiastic Agent
Patrick Garrow ... P.R. Agent

Alan Thicke ... J.R.
Mark Rendall ... Taylor Brandon Burns
Pamela Redfern ... Stewardess (as Pam Redfern)

Jennifer Jason Leigh ... Suzanne
Danielle Miller ... Fangirl

Michael Murphy ... Reed Harrison

Brendan Fehr ... Chip Metzger
Noam Jenkins ... Sydney Mehta

Jeanie Calleja ... Jane - 3rd A.D.

Dave Foley ... Philip Templeman
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated R for language and some sexual content.
Runtime:
98 min | Canada:100 min (Ontario)
Country:
Canada
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital
Certification:
Canada:14A (Ontario) | USA:R
Filming Locations:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Company:
Rhombus Media more

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Trivia:
Filmed in 19 days. more
Quotes:
[Natalie and Taylor have snuck onto the White House set to have sex]
Taylor Brandon Burns: So where do you want to do it? The Oval Office, The Greenroom, the Lincoln Bedroom ?
Natalie: It's your fantasy; I'm Canadian.
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Movie Connections:
Spoofs "Diff'rent Strokes" (1978) more
Soundtrack:
Samba Tokyo more

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12 out of 22 people found the following comment useful.
embarrassing, 5 April 2005
3/10
Author: Jim Stevens from LA, California

I loved McKeller's other film "Last Night". Unfortunately, this lame effort is uninspired. We've seen it all before and better. The film doesn't know what it wants to be - is it a comedy, a morality play about fame and the young, is it about parents living through their children, is it about manipulation? The result is a film that doesn't know what it wants to be and in turn, cannot find an audience. Like so many Canadian films, it's just not audience friendly and there is nothing in this film to get anyone but McKeller fans out to watch it. The film just unraveled (badly) and never went anywhere and then needed a long speech at the end to explain a plot we all stop caring about a long way back. The cinematography was excellent but it was wasted in this effort. McKeller can do better and has. Hopefully he can put this failure behind him.

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