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Starmaker {dd}

Starmaker {dd}

Released Sep 23rd, 2015
Running Time 219 Min.
Director Brad Armstrong
Company Wicked Pictures
DVD Extras Bonus Scenes, Still Gallery(ies), Trailer(s)
Cast Courtney Taylor, Kurt Lockwood, Jeanie Marie Sullivan, Kaylani Lei, Brad Armstrong, Jessica Drake, Tommy Pistol, Asa Akira, Amia Miley, Kalina Ryu
Critical Rating AAAAA
Genre Drama

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Synopsis

Subject to change without notice Award Winning Director Brad Armstrong follows up his Best Drama, Director, and Screenplay trifecta wins for his blockbuster hits AFTERMATH and UNDERWORLD with his latest Adult Saga STARMAKER. Mia (Asa Akira) is a struggling actress who meets Jeremy (Tommy Pistol) a wannabe scriptwriter. Together the two hatch a plan to blackmail Martin Anderson, (Brad Armstrong) a famous movie producer, by staging and secretly filming his illicit encounter with Mia. Martin caves in to their demands, but his no-nonsense, hard as nails wife Elise (jessica drake) is having none of it, and enlists the help of hired muscle (Kurt Lockwood) to put a stop to their scheme and make sure the story never hits the newsstands. STARMAKER is full of incredible performances from this A-List ensemble cast, as the viewer is plunged into the over-indulgent, sex-fueled world of Hollywood. In a town where secret deals, casting couches and double-crosses are the norm, nothing is ever as it seems. Everyone is focused on doing whatever it takes to make it, and all they`re looking for is that one big break. The only question is... What would YOU do to be famous?

Reviews

This three-and-a-half-hour drama starts like a light comedy, with struggling mainstream writer Jeremy (Tommy Pistol) and struggling mainstream actress Mia (Asa Akira) meeting cute in a coffeehouse. After Jeremy offers to get her into an audition and mentions that there might be a part for her in his new script, there's a jumpcut to Akira enthusiastically gobbling Pistol's dick to start a high-energy scene that proves Mia never heard the joke about the Polish starlet. In the post-coital afterglow, she asks him, "What about the script?" as she wipes the spoo off her chin. Life for an Asian actress isn't easy, she tells Jeremy—too few parts, too much competition for those parts ("It's always some stupid fresh-off-the-boat accented part"), and she's still broke and couch-surfing at friends' places. He invites her to stay on his couch and they develop a symbiotic relationship, where they work their way into a party at the home of mainstream producer Martin Anderson (Brad Armstrong), who goes to get his trophy wife Elise (Jessica Drake) a drink but stops for a bathroom blowjob from Kaylani Lei and Kalina Ryu before meeting Mia and Jeremy and introducing them to Elise, who receives them coldly and downs her drink as soon as it comes.

Back home after the party, Jeremy hatches a plot to entrap the notoriously Asian-girl-happy Anderson: Mia should videotape him at her audition "where he will inevitably play the old casting couch move" and use the tape to blackmail him to get her a part and him a writing gig. The audition at Anderson's office looks legit, with a cameraperson and a second actor, but once the others leave, Anderson asks her to read a romantic scene with him alone—just like Jeremy said he would. After the pop, she asks him if there's really a part and he says of course there is but he has to read some more actresses first. She tells him next time he should just ask if the girl wants to fuck him. "You may not get laid but at least she'll respect you." The wife, who suspected Mia "and her creepy writer friend" all along, confronts hubby over dinner: "Did you fuck her?" He denies it, which makes the screen caps Jeremy gives him from the video all the more upsetting.

Anderson calls a meeting with the blackmailers and then plays hardball, saying it'll be a scandal, it'll last for a minute, so what, there are plenty of scandals, they happen every day, nobody will care. Jeremy, outmatched, stammers but then Mia takes over, asking how it would go over if she hits the talk show circuit saying he needed a handful of pills to get an erection and begged her to fuck his ass with a strap-on. For starters. "I may even cry. I am an actress, after all." Anderson capitulates: Mia gets the part. Jeremy gets a writer credit. Elise's boy toy Curtis (Kurt Lockwood) reports back to Elise as soon as the deal is set, which makes for an interesting confrontation when Anderson gets home.

Right around here the movie goes into roller coaster mode: The viewer has NO idea where it's going and is hanging on for dear life. Jeremy fucks two girls on set in Mia's trailer and Anderson makes sure Mia knows about it. Curtis, who doubles as muscle for Anderson besides fuckmate for Elise, goes to Jeremy and Mia's place and suggests that Jeremy shouldn't go back to the set. Violently. And then suggests to Mia that after what Jeremy did to her she should revenge-fuck somebody to even the score. Somebody Jeremy hates. Somebody like him, maybe. How about now? When Curtis reports back to Anderson Elise jumps in, offering to seduce Mia away from Jeremy ("Without the girl, the writer is just a creepy guy with a dream—we have to get her over to our side") and she wins Mia over with a combination of steel and softness—and a luxury hotel room to stay in. Jeremy goes to Anderson's house to confront him but winds up meeting Anderson's daughter (Jeane Marie Sullivan) who revenge-fucks him to get back at dad, who she doesn't like much either. Elise tells Anderson about Jeremy's tryst with the daughter, and Anderson goes after Jeremy. With a gun. The tension builds, with Anderson holding his gun at Jeremy's temple and Elise reading Jeremy's script out loud, and... 

Akira acts and fucks her way to a Best Actress nom and Brad Armstrong pulls the writing/directing/acting hat trick here, with Jessica Drake nailing her supporting role as the producer's frigid, calculating wife who knows a good scam when she sees it, and Lockwood appropriately weaselly as the studio enforcer. Nine sex scenes and a second disc full of extras add value. Highly recommended for people who like dramas.



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