Showbiz Kids is a documentary about kids in showbiz. The movie follows a hopeful child actor(Marc Slater) going to auditions during pilot season, a working child actor(Demi Singleton) as their career ramps up, cut with interviews of various former child actors with archival footage of their young work.
An intriguing and sometimes heartbreaking but unfortunately unsurprising look at how fame and working full time on movies and TV shows distorts childhood and the family unit with interviews from Evan Rachel Wood, Jada Pinkett Smith, Henry Thomas, Mara Wilson, Wil Wheaton among others.
Interesting if somewhat narrow in scope the movie takes an honest and commendable look at the damage fame, success, and wealth can wreak on the child stars(and their families) that attain them. The movie doesn't shy away from the darkside of the business but isn't overwhelmed by it either.
Currently streaming on HBO.
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