Maps to the Stars(2015)
Focus Features- RRated R for strong disturbing violence and sexual content, graphic nudity, language and some drug material
- 1h 51m
Feb 27, 2015
A tour into the heart of a Hollywood family chasing celebrity, one another and the relentless ghosts of their pasts.
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Original Release | Feb 27, 2015
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Sound Mix: Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1
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Country of Origin: Canada, Germany, France, United States
Language: English
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Plot Summary
- Agatha (Mia Wasikowska) (a teenage girl) arrives in Los Angeles on a bus and employs limousine driver Jerome (Robert Pattinson) to take her to the site of the former house of Benjie Weiss (Evan Bird), a child star. Agatha has severe burns to her face and body and is seen taking a multitude of medication. Agatha claims that she used to babysit for Benjie. Benjie is a child actor sensation and controversial star who is trying to get his career on track after his stint at rehab while simultaneously battling demons from his past.Meanwhile, Benjie visits a child suffering from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in the hospital, however the girl later dies. The girl, Cammy (Kiara Glasco), appears as a ghost to Benjie because he visited her in the hospital before her death with the intentions of making a film on her life, and used his visit as a publicity stunt.[ Benjie's father, Dr. Stafford Weiss (John Cusack) is a TV psychologist who is treating aging actress Havana Segrand (Julianne Moore) for abuse she suffered at the hands of her deceased mother, also an actress. Havana's agent Genie (Dawn Greenhalgh) struggles to get Havana a role in a remake of her mother's film Stolen Waters. Genie says that Stolen Waters is an art film, and discourages Havana from wanting the project so much, but Havana's mins is set on it. Havana has frequent nightmares about sexual abuse from her mother Clarice Taggart (Sarah Gadon). Clarice's ghost says that she finds it pathetic that Havana hates her, but still wants to play her in the movie. Clarice's ghost insults Havana as a person and as an actress.Benjie and his mother, Cristina (Olivia Williams) negotiate a role for Benjie in a film as his comeback after drug rehabilitation. Benji has been offered $5 million as his acting fee, but Christina is negotiating for $8 million. The offer is contingent on Benji remaining off drugs for the duration of the franchise.Havana speaks to her friend Sterl (Jonathan Watton) to push the Stolen Waters director Damien to cast her in the movie. Havana is desperate and even has a threesome with Sterl and his girlfriend to get Sterl's support. At the suggestion of Carrie Fisher, Havana hires Agatha, whom she had met on Twitter, as a personal assistant. Agatha had met Carrie earlier at a Star Wars convention. Agatha continues to see Jerome, and a romance forms though Jerome appears resistant at first, insisting that he is seeing someone.Stafford learns through Havana that Agatha has returned to L.A, and it is revealed that Agatha is Stafford and Cristina's daughter - however they shun her completely, with Cristina breaking down at the thought of Agatha contacting Benjie. Stafford warns Benji to stay away from Agatha if she tries to contact him, but Benji is less enthused at the suggestion & wants to get to know his sister.Havana learns that the director of Stolen Waters, Damian Javitz(Gord Rand), has chosen Azita (Jayne Heitmeyer) to play the role of her mother. Agatha introduces Jerome to Havana when they cross paths during a shopping trip (Agatha was with Havana and Jerome was driving around Azita). Havana gets the role in Damian's movie when Azita's son Micah (Domenic Ricci) accidentally drowns & Azita is so deep in shock that she is unable to come to work.Using Havana's role in Stolen Waters to gain access to the production lot, Agatha visits Benjie on set and it is revealed she is schizophrenic, and that the burns she suffered were from a fire she lit in her parent's house while they were asleep. Due to her condition, the courts sent Agatha away for burn treatment at Sherman Oaks and then to Florida under state custody. Agatha claims that she heard voices of children in her head, that made her do all those horrible things. She indicates she has returned from a sanatorium to make amends. When Stafford learns Agatha visited Benjie, he visits her in a rage and warns her to leave L.A.Benjie breaks his sobriety, getting high on GHB, and accidentally shoots the dog of his only friend. Agatha visits her mother, Cristina to make amends. It is revealed that Cristina and Stafford are brother and sister, making Agatha and Benjie children of incest - though Cristina insists it was unbeknownst to them at the time. Stafford comes home, and when Agatha reveals she knows about their familial relations, Stafford violently beats her, until Cristina intervenes. During the altercation, Agatha steals Cristina's wedding ring. On set, Benjie is haunted by Cammy & Micah, and during a hallucination he strangles his young co-star. The child survives, though Benjie is now to be replaced in the film.Havana requests Jerome as a driver and seduces him in the backseat of his parked limo in the driveway of her home as Agatha watches from the window. Havana enters the house and berates Agatha for her poor performance at work and then verbally humiliates her when she finds that the girl has stained her expensive couch with menstrual blood. Agatha beats Havana to death with one of her awards.Benjie escapes the hospital and comes to Havana's house to find Agatha. Agatha tells him it all must end now. She shows him that she has their mother's wedding ring and instructs him to go get their father's ring.Stafford returns home to see Cristina on fire outside beside the pool. As she screams, engulfed in flames, he uses a piece of pool furniture to push her into the pool where she dies. Benjie arrives and finds his father by the pool in a catatonic state. He takes his father's wedding ring off his finger, then reunites with Agatha at the site of their previous home that Agatha had burned down. On the fireplace hearth, the siblings perform an impromptu wedding ceremony with their parents' wedding rings.They take an extreme amount of Agatha's pills together so that they may die by suicide, before lying down to watch the stars.
Storyline
- 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. — New_Rodro The Weisses are current Hollywood royalty. Father Dr. Stafford Weiss is a celebrity psychotherapist to the stars and self-help guru through his books, videos and seminars. Perhaps more famous is his thirteen year old son, Benjie Weiss, the literal and figurative bad boy star of the hit movie Bad Babysitter and its currently filming sequel. The sequel is a comeback of sorts for Benjie following a highly publicized stint in drug rehab. His career is managed by his mother/Stafford's wife, Christina Weiss. Among Stafford's celebrity clients is actress Havana Segrand, who is also from Hollywood royalty as her mother is actress Clarice Taggart, who died years ago in a house fire. Middle aged Havana is past her star prime, and is hoping her next movie will be the remake of Stolen Waters in the role made famous by her mother and for which Clarice received an Oscar nomination. Havana is largely in therapy because she feels that she was abused by Clarice, who still haunts her as a seemingly real vision, but she may have equally strong emotional issues related to her declining career and how she perceives she is viewed in Hollywood. Through a loose connection with Carrie Fisher , Havana hires new Hollywood arrival, late teen Agatha, as her personal assistant. Havana, Carrie and Agatha believe this connection is karmic as Agatha has physical burn scars on her face and over much of her body, which she hides under her clothes and gloves. Agatha embarks on a friendship/relationship with Jerome Fontana, an aspiring actor/writer who is working as a limo driver until his big break. Like many in his position, he hopes to use whatever life experience to work into his movie career. Although they all have these public issues, there are many secret issues with which they are dealing and which affect their behavior and well being. Agatha's reason for coming to Hollywood in particular may have a profound effect on all those with who she comes into contact. — Huggo Benjie (Evan Bird), a child star, is shaken when his schizophrenic sister (Mia Wasikowska) is released from a mental hospital and returns to Los Angeles, turning the convoluted world of shallow, selfish celebrities and their minions upside down.
