A brutal satire exploring Hollywood’s incestuous underbelly, from SCANNERS and A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE director David Cronenberg!
“I love this film more than I love my own mustache.”
– John Waters, Film Director
“Unquestionably Cronenberg’s angriest, politically motivated achievement. Every missive hits its target hard with a comedy-horror combo aimed squarely at the kind of commercial stupidity that he has avoided throughout his 45-year career. Now we know why.”
– Eric Kohn, Indiewire
“David Cronenberg pans satiric gold from the muck of celebrity ills, in a Tinseltown where reality depends on your dosage.”
– Peter Howell, Toronto Star
“A script written in venom, Cronenberg on bullish form and a cast on full power; this is one of the best Hollywood take-downs ever mounted.”
– James Mottram, Total Film
“The Canadian horror maestro scrapes away the surface of Hollywood to discover a magnificently Cronenbergian outbreak of tortured families, reprehensible behaviour and extreme violence.”
– Ian Nathan, Empire Magazine
“So crisply directed, furiously paced and gleefully performed that you go along for the ride.”
– Jon Frosch, The Atlantic
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. (C) Focus
