The Star

Name: The Star
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2013-10-24

A documentary about 55-year-old welder, who fell in love with acting in worst sci-fi theatre play of all time.

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Storyline

A documentary on Jan Slovak, a 55-year-old welder, who fell in love with acting. His desire began, when he got the lead role in a theatrical adaptation of the worst movie of all time, Plan 9 From Outer Space by Ed Wood Jr. The passion for theater became his destiny.

Details

DirectorAndrej Kolenčík

ReleasedOct 24, 2013

StatusReleased

Original languageSlovak

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Reviews

7 reviews · 6 critics

2 fresh · 4 rotten

James Morgan

RTSight & SoundAug 31, 2020

It is well worth seeing not only for what it might have been but for the star; this actress of wonderful temperament and precision creates a vivid, genuine figure, alternately pathetic and exasperating, gay and decrepit, vain, impossible and defenceless.

Bob Thomas

RTAssociated PressJul 24, 2019

The Star is a wonderful tour de force for Bette Davis.

Dan Callahan

RTSlant MagazineJun 7, 2005

A threadbare, bargain-basement Sunset Boulevard.

Nell Dodson Russell

RTMinnesota Spokesman-RecorderDec 16, 2021

This serving of superlative dramatic film com will be received with gasps of admiration from the legion of Davis fans although there certainly isn't much else worthy of mention when Miss isn't switching her torso around before the camera.