Dir. Adrianna Megs | 2010 | Canada | 95 MIN
Starring Shawn Doyle, Tatiana Maslany, Julia Kennedy, Andy Jones

Grown Up Movie Star tells the story of disgraced NHL star Ray and his precocious daughters Ruby and Rose. Once the town hero, Ray has returned home to Newfoundland from the US following a drug conviction, only to have his wife Lillian leave him for another man and aspirations of stardom. With Lillian gone, Ray flails from woman to woman trying to find a replacement for her, while struggling against a growing awareness of his homosexuality.

At loose ends for lack of guidance, Ruby attempts to follow her mother's starlet dreams with make-up and sexual behaviour, and in a desperate plea for attention, begins putting herself in increasingly risky situations. Ruby begins spending more and more time with Ray's best friend Stuart. When Stuart finds himself attracted to Ruby, dangerously motivated by fear and anger, he leads the three of them towards a heartbreaking conclusion.

"Grown Up Movie Star is unruly, tortured, crisis-prone, nervy, melodramatic and just charming enough to make you forgive all of the above. It’s like a teenager that way. At this year’s Sundance film festival, where the movie premiered, Maslany drew comparisons to Ellen Page and Carey Mulligan, and it’s not difficult to understand why. Vulnerable and wise, bold but still terrifyingly naive, Maslany is Grown Up Movie Star’s spellbinding centre. To just call her a movie star seems a disservice." - Toronto Sun