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Starlet explores the unlikely cross-generational friendship between 21-year-old adult film actress Jane (Dree Hemingway) and the elderly widow Sadie (Besedka Johnson), two women whose worlds collide in California's San Fernando Valley. Director Sean Baker captures the rhythms of everyday life with an authenticity rarely seen in cinema. Featuring a pair of exceptional debut performances by Dree Hemingway (great granddaughter of Ernest and daughter of Mariel) and 85-year-old Besedka Johnson. Starlet is at once provocative, haunting, unpredictable and surprisingly sweet.

2012 · 1h 43m
Director Sean Baker

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Starlet explores the unlikely cross-generational friendship between 21-year-old adult film actress Jane (Dree Hemingway) and the elderly widow Sadie (Besedka Johnson), two women whose worlds collide in California's San Fernando Valley. Director Sean Baker captures the rhythms of everyday life with an authenticity rarely seen in cinema. Featuring a pair of exceptional debut performances by Dree Hemingway (great granddaughter of Ernest and daughter of Mariel) and 85-year-old Besedka Johnson. Starlet is at once provocative, haunting, unpredictable and surprisingly sweet.

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Average 7.3
Reviews 46
Fresh 40
Rotten 6

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Studio
The Criterion Collection
Released
2012
Run Time
1 hr 43 min
Rated
18
Regions of Origin
United Kingdom, United States
© 2012 Starlet Films, LLC

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Original Audio
English
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English (United States) (⁨Dolby 5.1⁩, AAC)

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English (United States) (SDH)