The cheeky, low-budget satire FORMER CHILD STAR takes its premise from the archetypal tabloid story of a has-been Hollywood child actor in chronic trouble with the law.
Kimmy Archer (Dianna Damir) was the adored star of "Cubby's World," a TV show about a tot and her talking cat. But that was in the 1970s, and now Kimmy is grown up, washed up, and working in a succession of burger joints. When a crusading insurance agent (writer/director Joal Ryan in cameo)
exposes Kimmy as a potential child-star time bomb waiting to go off, the boss summarily fires her. Given a gun by a friendly postman, Kimmy decides to go with the flow and commit robbery. Fortunately her hosta...
Released:
1998
Rated:
NR
Length:
81 mins