Maps to the Stars is a 2014 internationally co-produced satirical comedy film directed by David Cronenberg, and starring Julianne Moore, Mia Wasikowska, John Cusack, Robert Pattinson, Olivia Williams, Sarah Gadon, and Evan Bird.

[17] The film concerns the plight of a child star and a washed up actress while commenting on the entertainment industry's relationship with Western civilization as a whole.

Agatha has severe burns to her face and body, requiring her to take a copious amount of medication.

Using Havana's role in Stolen Waters to gain access to the production lot, Agatha visits Benjie on set.

A schizophrenic, Agatha tells him that she has returned from a sanatorium to make amends for setting the fire that burned her and nearly killed him when he was seven.

When Stafford learns Agatha visited Benjie, he finds her in her hotel room, gives her $10,000, and tells her to leave L.A. before she ruins everything.

Benjie breaks his sobriety, getting high on GHB, and carelessly shoots the dog of his only friend.

On set, Benjie is haunted by the girl from the hospital and, during an hallucination, he strangles his young co-star.

Havana requests Jerome as a driver and seduces him in the backseat of his parked limo in the driveway of her home as Agatha watches from the window.

They take an extreme amount of Agatha's pills together so that they may die by suicide, before lying down to watch the stars.

"[41] Viggo Mortensen and Rachel Weisz were initially cast but left due to scheduling difficulties,[42][43] and were later replaced by Cusack and Moore.

[44] Moore bleached her hair blonde for the part of Havana,[45] said in an interview about the film that, "It's not only about celebrity culture, but the pursuit of fame at any cost.

It's strange, just because of the way the co-production deals work, that even though I've had movies that are set in the U.S. like Cosmopolis or The Dead Zone, I've never shot in the United States.

[38] Principal photography began on July 8, 2013, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and continued until August 12, 2013.

[97] Universal Pictures Home Entertainment released the DVD and Blu-ray Disc of the film in United States on April 14, 2015.

The site's summary states: "Narratively unwieldy and tonally jumbled, Maps to the Stars still has enough bite to satisfy David Cronenberg fans in need of a coolly acidic fix.

[100] Dave Calhoun of Time Out stated that "This creepy portrait of Beverly Hills screw-ups is deeply silly, but it has just enough venomous bite.

"[101] The Daily Telegraph's Robbie Collin gave the film five stars out of five and wrote that it "takes place in a kind of pharmaceutically heightened hyper-reality of its own: it's not so much a twisted dream of making it in show-business, as a writhing, hissing, Hollywood waking nightmare."

"[36] Mark Kermode, also of The Guardian, compared the film to "Sunset Boulevard, with sprinklings of Chinatown, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls and Mommie Dearest thrown in for good measure."

He called Moore "magnificently horrendous" with Wasikowska "provid[ing] ice-cool counterpoint", Williams "terrific" and Pattinson "nicely underplayed".

[103] In his review for Slant Magazine, Budd Wilkins compared the film to David Lynch's Mulholland Drive (2001): "Maps to the Stars is a scabrous, etched-in-acid comedy that digs deeper into the perversions and pathologies undergirding the Dream Factory than anything since Mulholland Drive.

"[106] Lee Marshall of Screen International said that "The film doesn't quite get away with its attempt to reconcile satire with pathos, but it comes perilously close.