2/17/2015

New Red Band Trailer for David Cronenberg's 'Maps to the Stars'


By the time David Cronenberg's Maps to the Stars opens at the end of the month, we could be talking about its star Julianne Moore as an Academy Award winner for Best Actress. And it would be a pretty solid boost for a film that has been laboring to get attention, which is why there have been too many trailers to count at this point. However there's still time for one more; a red band trailer that adds a touch of vulgarity to Cronenberg's cynical look at Hollywood culture.

Moore stars with Mia Wasikowska, John Cusack, Sarah Gadon, and Robert Pattinson in the story of a Hollywood family desperately trying to stay relevant. Here's the official synopsis:

Meet the Weiss family, who are making their way in Hollywood rife with money, fame, envy, and relentless hauntings.  Stafford Weiss (John Cusack) is a famed TV self-help therapist with an A-list celebrity clientele.  Meanwhile, Cristina Weiss (Olivia Williams) has her work cut out managing the career of their disaffected child-star son, Benjie (Evan Bird), a fresh graduate of rehab at age 13.

Yet unbeknownst to them, another member of the Weiss family has arrived in town – mysteriously scarred and tormented Agatha (Mia Wasikowska), just released from a psych ward and ready to start again.   She soon works her way into a friendship with a limo driver (Robert Pattinson) and becomes personal assistant to unraveling actress Havana Segrand (Julianne Moore), who is beset by the ghost of her legendary mother, Clarice (Sarah Gadon).  But Agatha is on a quest for redemption – and even in this realm of the artificial, and the unearthly, she’s determined to find it, no matter what it takes.

Maps to the Stars hits VOD and theaters on February 27th.