Starsuckers (2009)
1h 43m
Running Time
September 30, 2009Release Date
Plot.
Starsuckers is the most controversial documentary of the year, and was released in British cinemas in November 2009 to critical acclaim. It's a darkly humourous and shocking exposé of the celebrity obsessed media, that uncovers the real reasons behind our addiction to fame and blows the lid on the corporations and individuals who profit from it.
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Cast & Crew.
Rupert Degas
Narrator (voice)
Ellis Cashmore
Self - Professor - Staffordshire University
Max Clifford
Self
Richard Curtis
Self (archive footage)
Josef d'Bache-Kane
Self
Nick Davies
Self - Author
Charlotte de Barker
Self - Staffordshire University
Park Dietz
Self - Forensic Psychiatrist
Media.
Details.
Wiki.
Starsuckers is a 2009 British documentary film aiming to expose the "shams and deceit involved in creating a pernicious celebrity culture".
Directed by Chris Atkins, director of the 2007 documentary Taking Liberties, it shows the production team planting a variety of celebrity-related stories in the UK media, such as a claim that the singer Avril Lavigne had been seen asleep in a nightclub. A variety of tabloid newspapers accepted the stories without corroboration or evidence.The film launched as part of the British Film Institute's 53rd Film Festival. Thirty minutes of footage from the film were shown to the Leveson Inquiry as part of the evidence presented by the film's director, Chris Atkins.
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