- DICKIE ROBERTS FORMER CHILD STAR SOUNDTRACK DOWNLOAD MOVIE
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The film is rated PG-13, which means parents are strongly cautioned.
DICKIE ROBERTS FORMER CHILD STAR SOUNDTRACK DOWNLOAD MOVIE
The movie feature lots of cameos from real child stars, including Leif Garrett, Danny Bonaduce, Corey Feldman, Barry Williams and Emmanuel Lewis of “Webster,” who gets to beat up on Dickie in a “Celebrity Boxing” match illustrating just how deep Dickie’s ship has sunk. Not as slapstick as Jim Carrey, but slapstick enough for Spade, who takes the part and runs efficiently with it (he also co-wrote the script). This quest, however, is told with liberal doses of slapstick humor. They call it “operation redo childhood.”ĭickie’s quest to become a “normal” person is thus set in motion. The Finneys take him up on it: parents George and Grace, and kids Sam and Sally. But Reiner tells Dickie he’s not “normal” enough because he didn’t have a real childhood providing emotional development.ĭickie, in a last-ditch effort to get the part, decides to relive his childhood by hiring a family to treat him as one of its children. Now Dickie parks cars for a living and struggles in his relationship with sometime girlfriend Cyndi (played by real-life former child star Alyssa Milano from “Who’s the Boss?”).īut Dickie wants the adoration back, so he decides to audition for a part in director Rob Reiner’s (playing himself) new film.
DICKIE ROBERTS FORMER CHILD STAR SOUNDTRACK DOWNLOAD TV
“Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star,” which opens today starring David Spade, deals with the popular culture phenomenon of childhood stardom: what it means to have it, to lose it, to want it back, to want something that matters.įormer “Saturday Night Live” cast member and “Just Shoot Me” regular Spade plays Dickie, who rose to kiddie fame on the fictional TV show “The Glimmer Gang.” The movie’s beginning chronicles Dickie’s rise and fall through the familiar convention of the “E! True Hollywood Story.” “Child stars” can morph almost overnight into “former child stars”-three words more disturbing than even the two. But inside the Hollywood celebrity machine, all bets are off. We do, however, collectively decide if their deals, interviews and images are worth anybody’s time.īecause they’re not only stars but also children, they must surely be worth anybody’s time. We don’t make them in the sense that we broker their deals, schedule their interviews or fashion their images.
Most of us aren’t child stars, but we are the people who make-and break-child stars.