Maps to the Stars

Not to be confused with Maps of celebrity homes.

Maps to the Stars
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	David Cronenberg
Written by	Bruce Wagner
Produced by	Martin Katz Saïd Ben Saïd Michel Merkt
Starring	Julianne Moore Mia Wasikowska Olivia Williams Evan Bird Sarah Gadon John Cusack Robert Pattinson
Cinematography	Peter Suschitzky [1]
Edited by	Ronald Sanders [1]
Music by	Howard Shore [1]
Production companies	Prospero Pictures SBS Productions
Distributed by	Entertainment One Films (Canada) Le Pacte (France) MFA+ Filmdistribution (Germany) Focus World (US)
Release dates	May 19, 2014 (2014-05-19)(Cannes) [2] [3] May 21, 2014 (2014-05-21)(France) October 31, 2014 (2014-10-31)(Canada) February 27, 2015 (2015-02-27)(United States)
Running time	112 minutes [4] [5]
Countries	Canada France Germany United States
Language	English
Budget	$13 million [6]
Box office	$4.5 million [7] [8]

Maps to the Stars is a 2014 internationally co-produced satirical drama film directed by David Cronenberg, and starring Julianne Moore, Mia Wasikowska, John Cusack, Robert Pattinson, Olivia Williams, Sarah Gadon, and Evan Bird. ^{[9] [10] [11]} The screenplay was written by Bruce Wagner, who had written a novel entitled Dead Stars based on the Maps to the Stars script, after initial plans for making the film with Cronenberg fell through. ^{[12] [13] [14] [15]}

This is the second consecutive collaboration between Cronenberg and Pattinson (after Cosmopolis ) and marks the third collaboration between Cronenberg and Prospero Pictures, who previously collaborated on A Dangerous Method and Cosmopolis. ^[16] This is also the third Cronenberg film made with Canadian actress Sarah Gadon. It is the first Cronenberg film shot partially in the United States, although most of it was shot, like his other films, in his native city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ^[17]

The film concerns the plight of a child star and a washed up actress while commenting on the entertainment industry's relationship with Western civilization as a whole. ^[18] The film premiered in competition for the Palme d'Or at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival on May 19, 2014. ^{[19] [20] [21]} Moore won the festival's Best Actress Award. ^{[22] [23] [24]} Following its premiere at Cannes, the film had a theatrical release in France on May 21, 2014. ^[25]

Plot

Agatha Weiss arrives in Los Angeles and employs limousine driver Jerome to take her to the site of the former house of child star Benjie Weiss. Agatha has severe burns to her face and body, requiring her to take a copious amount of medication. Benjie visits a child suffering from non-Hodgkin lymphoma in the hospital; the girl later dies, and Benjie is confronted by her ghost. Benjie's father, Dr. Stafford Weiss, is a TV psychologist who is treating aging actress Havana Segrand for abuse she suffered at the hands of her deceased mother, also an actress. Havana's agent struggles to get Havana a role in a remake of her mother's film Stolen Waters. Havana routinely hallucinates about the deceased younger version of her mother.

Benjie and his mother, Cristina, negotiate a role for Benjie in a film as his comeback after drug rehabilitation. At the suggestion of Carrie Fisher, Havana hires Agatha, whom Carrie had met on Twitter, as a personal assistant. Agatha continues to see Jerome, and a romance forms, though Jerome appears resistant at first. Stafford learns through Havana that Agatha has returned to L.A. Agatha is Benjie's sister – however, she is shunned by her parents (Cristina and Stafford).

Using Havana's role in Stolen Waters to gain access to the production lot, Agatha visits Benjie on set. A schizophrenic, Agatha tells him that she has returned from a sanatorium to make amends for setting the fire that burned her and nearly killed him when he was seven. When Stafford learns Agatha visited Benjie, he finds her in her hotel room, gives her $10,000, and tells her to leave L.A. before she ruins everything.

Benjie breaks his sobriety, getting high on GHB, and carelessly shoots the dog of his only friend. Agatha visits her mother, Cristina, and reveals that before she set the fire she had discovered that her parents were brother and sister, making Agatha and Benjie children of incest. Cristina tells her they were separated as children and didn't know they were related. Stafford comes home, and when Agatha tells him 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 the girl from the hospital and, during an 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.

Underlying theme

Throughout the film, liberal quotings from Paul Éluard's poem "Liberté" meander "through each of the characters' lives," creating an underlying mantra for the film. ^[26]

Cast

From top to bottom: Moore, Wasikowska, Cusack, Bird, Williams, Pattinson, and Gadon

Main cast

• Julianne Moore as Havana Segrand
  A famous but aging and fading actress living in the shadow of her legendary movie-star mother and feeling abused by her. Moore based the character on "an amalgam of people I've known and observed. She is someone who lives completely isolated in this make-believe world. She doesn't really have a family and she's still very angry with her mother because she feels she was abused. She's always lived in her mother's shadow, and in her mind, it's all a kind of mixed-up, Freudian mess." ^[27]
• Mia Wasikowska as Agatha Weiss
  The scarred and estranged pyromaniac daughter of the Weiss family who takes a job as Havana's personal assistant, while waiting for the opportunity to make amends with her family. Wasikowska said, "I love Agatha because she's dark inside but at the same time in a lot of ways she has this very positive outlook. There's something very sweet and sad about this girl who, in the midst of these celebrity-obsessed parents, and this troubled past, really just wants to connect with them. They've totally rejected her, but in a way, she's desperately trying to mimic their lives. She's desperately trying to find her identity." She further added, "She has the gloves she wears over her burns, the facial scar, and all these rituals with the poem and the pills she takes, it's all very distinct to who she is." ^[27]
• John Cusack as Stafford Weiss
  The head of the Weiss family, a TV psychologist with a number of high-profile celebrity clients, and immensely egoistic about the success of his son Benjie. Stafford exploits people's emotions and takes advantage of them. Stafford Weiss and his wife Cristina are brother and sister; they were separated at birth and discovered their relation after meeting in college and becoming a couple. According to Cusack, "He sees himself as a healer. He's part Tony Robbins, part Reiki Master, part shrink. But his son is the real star—he's a massive teen star of Bieberesque proportions." Describing the script he said, "It was the most savage destruction of Hollywood fame and secrets and that whole toxic brew that I'd ever seen." ^[27]
• Evan Bird as Benjie Weiss
  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. Cronenberg was not sure that any child actor could play Benjie's character successfully until he saw Bird in the TV series The Killing . Bird said about his character, "[H]e doesn't really have love and yet he doesn't really have limitations, either. So he's searching for both of those things. He's making way too much money, he's being taken advantage of by his parents, and he's really screwed up." ^[27]
• Olivia Williams as Cristina Weiss
  Ambitious and controlling, she manages the career of her son. Cristina Weiss and her husband Stafford are sister and brother; they were separated at birth and discovered their relation after meeting in college and becoming a couple. According to Williams, "She is a very ambitious woman and we get to see her downfall from the very heights of her power. She operates in a world where someone could be the nastiest person on earth and make your life hell, but you might still want them in your movie because they'll make you money." ^[27]
• Robert Pattinson as Jerome Fontana
  A limousine driver and struggling actor who wants to be a successful screenwriter. Jerome is inspired by Bruce Wagner, who, at the time when he conceived the idea for this story, was himself a struggling actor and writer working as a limo driver. Pattinson described the character as most sane and ordinary but like every LA dreamer in the story and said, "Jerome would never accept that he is just a limo driver. I think he feels he's just waiting for his break. And yet, he's seemingly the only one in this story who's not going insane—or who isn't a ghost." And about the script he added that "It's really about people who lie to themselves—right up until the end." ^[27]
• Sarah Gadon as Clarice Taggart
  An iconic Hollywood movie star who died in a fire and appears as a twenty-something-year-old ghost to her daughter Havana. Cronenberg said that "it's such a lovely, unusual role, because she's simply this ghostly memory." ^[27] Gadon said, "I really want to do the film because I thought it was a critique about contemporary Hollywood. And, specifically, of a woman's place in Hollywood." ^[28]

Other cast

• Kiara Glasco as Cammy
  A girl who died young and 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. ^[29]
• Dawn Greenhalgh as Genie
  Havana's agent who assists her in landing the role in the remake of Clarice's film. ^[29]
• Jonathan Watton as Sterl Carruth
  A film actor and friend of Havana. ^[30]
• Jennifer Gibson as Starla Gent
  A country singer and friend of Sterl.
• Gord Rand as Damien Javitz
  A rising talented director of the remake of Stolen Waters, and described as "He's no P. T. Anderson, but he resurrects actors." ^[31]
• Justin Kelly as Rhett
  A young Hollywood actor and friend of Benjie.
• Niamh Wilson as Sam
  A girl who's in Benjie and Rhett's circle of friends.
• Clara Pasieka as Gretchen Voss
  A young Hollywood actress and friend of Rhett.
• Emilia McCarthy as Kayla
  A young Hollywood actress and friend of Benjie.
• Allegra Fulton as Harriet
  Benjie's therapist.
• Domenic Ricci as Micah
  Azita's young son who died in a tragic accident. ^[29]
• Jayne Heitmeyer as Azita Wachtel
  An actress and Havana's rival for the coveted role in the remake of Clarice's 1960 movie Stolen Waters. ^[32]
• Sean Robertson as Roy
  A four-year-old costar of Benjie, whom Benjie perceives as competition and injures him during his hallucination believing him to be Cammy. ^[29]
• Ari Cohen as Jeb Berg
  A Hollywood producer working on the sequel of Benjie's blockbuster film, a fictitious teen comedy titled "Bad Babysitter". ^[33]
• Carrie Fisher as herself ^[34]
  Fisher has a cameo appearance in the film. Agatha Weiss befriended her on Twitter to write a novel and on her recommendation Havana hired Agatha as her new personal assistant. ^{[35] [36] [31]}

Production

Development

Hollywood is a world that is seductive and repellent at the same time, and it is the combination of the two that makes it so potent.

—David Cronenberg, director of Maps to the Stars, on the film. ^[37]

Plans for the film hit financial difficulties and it was in development for around six years. During promotion of Cosmopolis in May 2012, at Cannes, David Cronenberg said that "It's not a 'go' picture. We have a script that I love that Bruce wrote; it's a very difficult film to get made as was Cosmopolis actually. Whether I can get this movie to happen, I tried it five years ago, I couldn't get it made, so I still might not be able to get it made." ^[38] He also added that "Maps to the Stars is very extreme. It's not obviously a very big commercial movie, and even as an independent film it's difficult. Maps to the Stars is completely different [from Cosmopolis], but it's very acerbic and satirical; it's a hard sell." ^[38]

Talking about the script, Cronenberg revealed that "It's kind of a satire on Hollywood. It's very typical of Bruce Wagner's writing. And it's sort of a condensed essence of Bruce. And while it's satirical, it's also very powerful, emotionally, and insightful and funny. ^[39] You could say it's a Hollywood film because the characters are agents, actors and managers, but it is not a satire like The Player ." ^[40] Producer Martin Katz described it as an "absurdist comedy about the entertainment business." ^[41]

Casting

Viggo Mortensen and Rachel Weisz were initially cast but left due to scheduling difficulties, ^{[42] [43]} and were later replaced by Cusack and Moore. ^[44] Moore bleached her hair blonde for the part of Havana, ^[45] said in an interview about the film that, "It's not only about celebrity culture, but the pursuit of fame at any cost." ^[46] It is the second collaboration between Pattinson and Cronenberg after Cosmopolis.

Pre-production

Production began in July 2013. ^[47] Cronenberg stated that "it would be the first time I've ever shot a foot of film in the United States. It's strange, just because of the way the co-production deals work, that even though I've had movies that are set in the U.S. like Cosmopolis or The Dead Zone , I've never shot in the United States. This would be the first time. And I'm really excited about it." ^[17] He further added that "Well, Maps to the Stars is an L.A. story and I really felt that is something I could not create on a set in Toronto, whereas the structure of Cosmopolis allows me to create New York on a soundstage in Toronto. ^[38]

Filming

Interior locations were filmed at Cinespace film studio of Toronto.

Principal photography began on July 8, 2013, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and continued until August 12, 2013. ^{[48] [49]} Most of the shooting took place in Toronto and many of the interior locations in the film were filmed at the Eastern Avenue site of Cinespace Studios. ^{[50] [51] [52]} On July 19, some scenes were shot in and around the diner at Queen street in Leslieville, Ontario. ^{[53] [54]}

Filming then moved to Los Angeles, California. Most of the shoot was outdoors, at some landmark sites. ^{[55] [56]} On August 17, filming took place downtown at Union Station, Los Angeles with Pattinson and Wasikowska ^[57] and on August 18 and 19, scenes were shot at Rodeo Drive and The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, L.A. ^{[57] [58] [59] [60]} Scenes were also filmed at the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Hollywood Boulevard and Runyon Canyon near Mulholland Drive on August 20 ^{[61] [62] [63] [64] [65]} and at Park Way Beverly Hills L.A. on August 21. ^{[66] [67]} Cronenberg lit the Hollywood Sign for a scene on August 20, by using 4K HMI lights. He has said that "It's no different than shining a light from a helicopter." ^[68] Filming wrapped up on August 22, 2013, in L.A. ^{[68] [69] [70]}

Music

Maps to the Stars: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Film score Soundtrack album by various artists
Released	September 9, 2014
Genre	Alternative rock, indie pop, electronic
Length	38:34 [71]
Label	Howe Records
Producer	Howard Shore
Howard Shore chronology
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) Maps to the Stars: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2014) Rosewater (2014)

Howard Shore composed the score for the film. He has collaborated with Cronenberg on all but one of his films since 1979. The album was released by Howe Records on September 9, 2014. ^{[71] [72] [73]} The first single featuring a track from the soundtrack album was released on May 21, 2014. ^{[74] [75]}

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Greyhound"	1:56
2.	"Set Me Free"	1:57
3.	"Stolen Waters"	2:22
4.	"Wildfire"	2:25
5.	"A Little Crazy"	3:21
6.	"Walk of Fame"	1:31
7.	"Fire and Water"	2:16
8.	"Asylum Corridor"	1:45
9.	"Brother and Sister"	1:06
10.	"Secrets Kill"	2:43
11.	"Burn Out"	1:57
12.	"Love Is Stronger Than Death"	2:32
13.	"I'm Sorry"	2:41
14.	"I Write Your Name"	3:47
15.	"Liberty"	2:10
16.	"Blanket of Stars"	4:05
Total length:		38:34

Distribution

Marketing and promotion

On April 14, 2014, the first preview trailer was released for sales and distribution. ^{[76] [77]} It was followed by the full-length official trailer of the film next day. ^{[78] [79] [80] [81]} The same month with the announcement of the film's premieres at the Cannes Film Festival, two images of Julianne Moore, Mia Wasikowska and Robert Pattinson from the film were released. ^[82] EOne revealed another trailer for the film on September 10, 2014, ahead of film's release in Spain and Canada. ^[83]

Releases

Julianne Moore promoting the film at the Cannes Film Festival.

From left to right: Moore, Cusack, Pattinson, Gadon and Cronenberg at the screening of film at 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.

The film screened at 2014 New Zealand International Film Festival in the Legends section on July 25, 2014. ^[84] It screened in the Gala Presentations section of the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival on September 9, 2014 ^[85] and also screened at the 2014 New York Film Festival on September 27, 2014. ^[86] It was released in UK on September 26, 2014. ^{[87] [88]} It served as the closing film at the 2014 Tokyo International Film Festival on October 31, 2014, ^[89] and was theatrically released in Canada on the same day. ^[90] On November 8, 2014, it screened at Stockholm International Film Festival. ^[91] It was released in Australia on November 20, 2014. ^[92]

In September 2014, Focus World acquired the United States distribution rights of the film ^[93] and gave the film an award-qualifying limited release in L.A. from December 5 to 11, 2014, before its day-and-date release on February 27, 2015. ^[94]

Home media

The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray in France on September 24, 2014. ^[95] It was available on DVD in UK on November 24, 2014 ^[96] and was released on March 3, 2015, in Germany. ^[97] Universal Pictures Home Entertainment released the DVD and Blu-ray Disc of the film in United States on April 14, 2015. ^[98]

Reception

Box office

The film had a limited release in France in May 2014, and then released in different countries and has grossed worldwide total of $4 million. ^{[7] [8]}

Map to the Stars premiere at 2014 Cannes Film Festival; use cursor to identify figures

Critical response

The film generated mostly positive reviews, and performances from the cast were praised. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 62% of 165 critics have given the film a positive review, with a rating average of 6.3/10. The site's summary states: "Narratively unwieldy and tonally jumbled, Maps to the Stars still has enough bite to satisfy David Cronenberg fans in need of a coolly acidic fix." ^[99] On Metacritic, which assigns a weighted mean rating out of 100 reviews from film critics, the films holds an average score of 67, based on 39 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". ^[100]

Dave Calhoun of Time Out stated that "This creepy portrait of Beverly Hills screw-ups is deeply silly, but it has just enough venomous bite." ^[101] The Daily Telegraph 's Robbie Collin gave the film five stars out of five and wrote that it "takes place in a kind of pharmaceutically heightened hyper-reality of its own: it's not so much a twisted dream of making it in show-business, as a writhing, hissing, Hollywood waking nightmare." He said that "Moore, in particular, is tremendous" and concluded that "Cronenberg has made a film that you want to unsee – and then see and unsee again." ^{[31] [26]} Oliver Lyttelton, in his review for The Playlist , graded the film B+ by saying that "The film is a sickly enjoyable wallow in the scandalous, fucked-up side of showbusiness, and a real return to form for the filmmaker." ^[102] Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian gave the film four out of five stars and called the film "A gripping and exquisitely horrible movie about contemporary Hollywood – positively vivisectional in its sadism and scorn." ^[36] Mark Kermode, also of The Guardian, compared the film to " Sunset Boulevard , with sprinklings of Chinatown , Beyond the Valley of the Dolls and Mommie Dearest thrown in for good measure." He called Moore "magnificently horrendous" with Wasikowska "provid[ing] ice-cool counterpoint", Williams "terrific" and Pattinson "nicely underplayed". ^[103] In his review for Slant Magazine , Budd Wilkins compared the film to David Lynch's Mulholland Drive (2001): "Maps to the Stars is a scabrous, etched-in-acid comedy that digs deeper into the perversions and pathologies undergirding the Dream Factory than anything since Mulholland Drive." ^[104]

However, Peter Debruge of Variety criticized the film as "part showbiz sendup, part ghost story, part dysfunctional-family drama, [it] instead comes across as so much jaded mumbo-jumbo." ^[105] Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter thought that the film "comes off like a prank more than a coherent take on 21st century Hollywood, even if there are crumbs of truth and wit scattered throughout it." ^[106] Lee Marshall of Screen International said that "The film doesn't quite get away with its attempt to reconcile satire with pathos, but it comes perilously close." ^[107]

The film was included in the list of "Canada's Top Ten" feature films of 2014, selected by a panel of filmmakers and industry professionals organized by TIFF. ^{[108] [109]}

In 2023, Barry Hertz of The Globe and Mail named the film as one of the 23 best Canadian comedy films ever made. ^[110]

Accolades

Year	Group/Award	Category	Recipient	Result	Ref.
2015	Canadian Screen Awards	Best Motion Picture	Saïd Ben Saïd, Martin Katz, and Michel Merkt	Nominated	[111]
		Best Direction	David Cronenberg	Nominated	[111]
		Best Actor in a Leading Role	Evan Bird	Nominated	[111]
		Best Actress in a Leading Role	Julianne Moore	Nominated	[111]
		Best Actor in a Supporting Role	John Cusack	Won	[111]
			Robert Pattinson	Nominated	[111]
		Best Actress in a Supporting Role	Mia Wasikowska	Nominated	[111]
		Best Original Screenplay	Bruce Wagner	Nominated	[111]
		Best Editing	Ronald Sanders	Nominated	[111]
		Best Overall Sound	Christian Cooke, Michael O'Farrell, and Orest Sushko	Nominated	[111]
		Best Achievement in Music: Original Score	Howard Shore	Won	[111]
2014	Cannes Film Festival	Palme d'Or	David Cronenberg	Nominated	[19]
		Best Actress	Julianne Moore	Won	[23] [24]
		Cannes Soundtrack Award	Howard Shore	Won	[112]
2015	Canadian Society of Cinematographers Awards	Best Theatrical Feature Cinematography	Peter Suschitzky	Nominated	[113]
2015	Directors Guild of Canada	Best Production Design	Carol Spier	Won	[114] [115]
		Best Picture Editing	Ronald Sanders	Nominated	[115]
		Best Sound Editing	Michael O'Farrell, Robert Bertola, Wayne Griffin, Alastair Gray and Gren-Erich Zwicker	Nominated	[115]
2014	Golden Globe Awards	Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical	Julianne Moore	Nominated	[116]
2014	International Cinephile Society Awards	Best Supporting Actress	Julianne Moore	Won	[117]
2015	London Film Critics' Circle Awards	Actress of the year (also for Still Alice )	Julianne Moore	Nominated	[118]
2014	Sitges Film Festival	Best Actress	Julianne Moore	Won	[119]

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External links

• Maps to the Stars at IMDb
• Maps to the Stars at Box Office Mojo
• Maps to the Stars at Rotten Tomatoes
• Maps to the Stars at Metacritic