![]() ![]() Starlet premiered at the SXSW Film Festival on Ma and had its international premiere in main competition at the Locarno International Film Festival in August 2012. The film was shot entirely in Los Angeles. Starlet began production in August 2011 and wrapped the following month. Sean Baker and Chris Bergoch collaborated on the screenplay for Starlet from November 2010 through summer 2011. She returns to the car, and the two drive away. Jane notices the nearby grave of Sadie's daughter who died around age 18. ![]() Sadie asks Jane to stop at the cemetery to leave flowers on her husband's grave. Later, Jane, not knowing that Sadie has been told about the money, picks her up to go to the airport. Sadie briefly unpacks her suitcase, but stops and gets ready to travel. In an act of revenge or as a way of feeling morally superior, Melissa tells Sadie about the stash of money. Jane contacts their boss, who provides her a room in a large house which serves as a dormitory for a stable of porn actresses. Melissa screams at Jane and kicks her out of the apartment. When Melissa learns that Jane spent all the money on Sadie, she is enraged. Jane buys two first-class tickets to Paris and convinces Sadie to go with her. When very drunk, Melissa advises her to spend it on "someone you care about," expecting that it would be spent on Melissa herself. Jane still has most of the money she found in the Thermos. The dog gets loose and, although Sadie finds Starlet, she suggests ending the friendship with Jane. One day, Jane leaves her dog Starlet with Sadie while she works at a porn convention. Melissa's car is repossessed, but she gets it back from money doing "privates". Jane convinces their boss to suspend Melissa for a month instead. ![]() Jane becomes very attached to Sadie.Īfter an argument with her boss, Melissa is fired from her job where she, Mikey, and Jane are adult film stars. When Jane asks about her family, Sadie answers that she was married to a successful gambler, became a widow long ago and never had children. She learns that the widow Sadie always loved Paris but has never been there. Despite Sadie's abrasiveness and resistance, Jane begins to form a friendship with her. The cranky older woman turns Jane away before she can explain. She spends some of it on extravagant luxuries, but decides to return the money to Sadie. At one such sale she comes across an old woman named Sadie, from whom she buys a Thermos.īack at her place, Jane discovers a stash of money in the Thermos. Seeking change, Jane buys furniture at neighborhood yard sales. Melissa tells Jane she cannot change the color of her room as she wishes because Mikey needs it for "shoots". Jane, also known as Tess, is a young woman who shares an apartment rented by Melissa and her boyfriend Mikey. Starlet explores the unlikely friendship between 21-year-old Jane and 85-year-old Sadie, two women whose lives intersect in California's San Fernando Valley. STARLET is at once provocative, haunting, unpredictable, and surprisingly sweet.Starlet is a 2012 independent drama film directed by Sean Baker and starring Dree Hemingway and newcomer Besedka Johnson. Featuring a pair of exceptional debut performances by Dree Hemingway (great granddaughter of Ernest and daughter of Mariel) and 85 year-old Besedka Johnson who received a Special Jury Recognition for her performance at SXSW. Director Sean Baker continues in the naturalistic style of his previous films, the award-winning and Spirit Award nominees PRINCE OF BROADWAY and TAKE OUT, capturing the rhythms of everyday life with an authenticity rarely seen in cinema. Jane attempts to befriend the caustic older woman in an effort to solve her dilemma and secrets emerge as their relationship grows. After a confrontation between the women at Sadie's yard sale, Jane uncovers a hidden stash of money inside a relic from Sadie's past. Sadie, a widow, passes her days alone, tending to her flower garden. Jane, an aspiring actress, spends her time getting high with her dysfunctional roommates, Melissa and Mikey (Stella Maeve and James Ransone), while caring for her Chihuahua, Starlet. STARLET explores the unlikely cross-generational friendship between 21 year-old Jane (Dree Hemingway), and the elderly Sadie (Besedka Johnson), two women whose worlds collide in California's San Fernando Valley. ![]()
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