History Film / MapsToTheStars

* OperaGloves: Agatha wears them throughout the film, to hide the burn scars on her arms.

* MaleFrontalNudity: During a ThreeWaySex moment with Havana, fellow actor Sterl Carruth, and Sterl's girlfriend, when he gets out of bed to answer his cell phone. The women continue to go at it while Sterl treats himself to ADateWithRosiePalms.

* HorribleHollywood: Pretty much the entire point of the movie. Delusional, past-their-prime actresses? Spoiled-rotten child stars? Smiling, sanctimonious agents? Having to play nice with a rival actress who just stole the role of a lifetime from underneath you? Check, check, check, and oh HELL yes.

* ConspicuousConsumption: During a shopping trip on Rodeo Drive, Havana moans "I can't believe I just spent eighteen thousand dollars!" Later, she blows a gasket when Agatha inadvertently menstruates on ''"MY TWELVE THOUSAND DOLLAR couch!"''

* ConspicuousConsumption: During a shopping trip on Rodeo Drive, Havana moans "I can't believe I just spent eighteen thousand dollars!" Later, she blows a gasket when Agatha inadvertently menstruates on ''"MY TWELVE THOUSAND DOLLAR cou!"''

* ConspicuousConsumption: During a shopping trip on Rodeo Drive, Havana moans "I can't believe I just spent eighteen thousand dollars!" Later, she blows a gasket when Agatha inadvertently menstruates on ''"MY TWELVE THOUSAND DOLLAR SOFA!"''

* RageBreakingPoint: Agatha reaches hers after being assaulted by [[spoiler:her father]], watching Jerome have sex with Havana in his limo, then Havana firing her for menstruating on her expensive sofa.

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[[caption-width-right:350:Greetings from HorribleHollywood!]]

Forty-something actress Havana Segrand (Creator/JulianneMoore) is trying to jump-start her stagnant career by remaking the signature film of her late mother, Clarice Taggart (Sarah Gadon). Havana is also under the care of TV psychologist Stafford Weiss (Creator/JohnCusack), who, along with wife Cristina (Creator/OliviaWilliams), oversees the movie career of their spoiled, ill-mannered 13-year-old son Benji (Evan Bird). And Jerome (Creator/RobertPattinson) dreams of being an actor or screenwriter, but makes his living as a limo driver.

* BrotherSisterIncest: [[spoiler: Stafford and Cristina Weiss. In their defense, they'd been separated at an early age, and only found out after they'd met, married, and raised a family.]]

* WouldHurtAChild: Benji tries to strangle his young scene-stealing costar, thinking it's the ghost of the cancer patient who's haunting him.

** FatherIWantToMarryMyBrother: When Agatha and [[spoiler:Benji]] were young, she would feed him sleeping pills and perform a mock wedding ceremony with him. During one such ceremony, the house caught on fire, badly burning Agatha in the process.

* VomitIndiscretionShot: Benji pukes in a men's room urinal after a fruitless meeting with a casting agency. For added {{Squick}}, his mom is in there to comfort him.

* SelfImmolation: [[spoiler: Cristina.]] Unfortunately, comes across as SpecialEffectFailure.

* {{Gorn}}: [[spoiler:When Havana fires Agatha, the latter grabs one of Havana's acting trophies and bloodily bashes her head in. As an added GeniusBonus, the award in question is a Genie Award, given to Canadian movie talent. Cronenberg has several...]]

* CaliforniaDoubling: Played straight (like most Cronenberg projects, the bulk of the film was shot in his native Toronto), but also averted (some scenes were actually shot in Hollywood - the first time in his career that Cronenberg has filmed on American soil).

** When Stafford finds [[spoiler:Agatha]] in his home, he physically attacks her, punching her repeated in the stomach before throwing her out.

Forty-something actress Havana Segrand (Creator/JulianneMoore) is trying to jump-start her stagnant career by remaking the signature film of her late mother, Clarice Taggart (Sarah Gadon). Havana is also under the care of TV psychologist Stafford Weiss (Creator/JohnCusack), who, along with wife Cristina (Olivia Williams), oversees the movie career of their spoiled, ill-mannered 13-year-old son Benji (Evan Bird). And Jerome (Creator/RobertPattinson) dreams of being an actor or screenwriter, but makes his living as a limo driver.

cars on her arms.

* OperaGloves: Agatha wears them throughout the film, to hide the burns.

* OperaGloves: Agatha wears them throughout the film, to hide the burn scars on her arms.
* ParentalIncest: [[spoiler: Stafford and Cristina Weiss. In their defense, they'd been separated at an early age, and only found out after they'd met, married, and raised a family.]]
** FatherIWantToMarryMyBrother: When Agatha and [[spoiler:Benji]] were young, she would feed him sleeping pills and perform a mock wedding ceremony with him. During one such ceremony, the house caught on fire, badly burning Agatha in the process.

** When Stannis finds [[spoiler:Agatha]] in his home, he physically attacks her, punching her repeated in the stomach before throwing her out.

** Stannis refers to his daughter as this.

* ParentalIncest: [[spoiler: Stannis and Cristina Weiss. In their defense, they'd been separated at an early age, and only found out after they'd met, married, and raised a family.]]

* ActorAllusion: This is the second Cronenberg film in a row in which Robert Pattinson spends most of his screen time [[Film/{{Cosmopolis}} inside a limousine]] - not to mention [[AutoErotica having sex in one]].

* SavedFromDevelopmentHell: Cronenberg and Wagner were ready to start filming in 2007, but it would take another six years before financing could be secured.

* HorribleHollywood

* ConspicuousConsumption: During a shopping trip on Rodeo Drive, Havana moans "I can't believe i just spent eighteen thousand dollars!" Later, she blows a gasket when Agatha inadvertently menstruates on ''"MY TWELVE THOUSAND DOLLAR SOFA!"''