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Starsuckers

101 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Chris Atkins turns an investigative camera on Britain's celebrity industry, and the first thing he does is prove how easy it is to break into it: his team fabricates a story about Amy Winehouse and sells it straight into the tabloids, no questions asked. From there the film widens into a study of how fame is manufactured and sold, tracking stage-school children rehearsed to want stardom before they understand what it is, PR operators who plant stories as news, and a charity stunt built around a celebrity photo-op that turns out to be almost entirely spin. Psychologists and neuroscientists weigh in on why audiences keep buying it, tracing the pull of gossip and image back to basic brain chemistry rather than mere bad taste. Interviews with journalists, publicists, and former child performers fill out the picture from the inside. The tone is angry and specific rather than despairing, and the sting operations give the argument something rare in media criticism: proof on camera.