[Jay777]

When I called to ask if the production company was serious, a worried casting associate told me: "We're not hiring anyone underage. But agents and managers were sending us girls in their 20s who looked too old. We want an 18- or 19-year-old who can play 13 or 14, not an actual 13-year-old."

[speedy]

The suffering they endure for art. So brave, so heroic.

[SMARTY]

Haven't' we had enough smut? Aren't we at the saturation point yet? Are there NO other possible film productions? Has the American audience NOT demonstrated what it would prefer?

[martin_fierro]

When was it that the untalented DiPalma stopped casting the equally untalented Nancy Allen in all his movies.

[CSXT]

A film about the true story of Elizabeth Smart might be gruesome, but would be much more acceptable than some porno garbage. There is no indication that she was a lesbian. The true story is one which grips the imagination and would make a great film noir.

[sully777]

The use of underaged or teenage lesbians within the story plot seems to associate with the name Hilary Swank. I'll note the movie "Boys Don't Cry" for consideration.

[squarebarb]

Just finished Michael Medved's book Right Turns, loved it.

Apparently Hollywood is deluded and has been deluded for about thirty years that gross-out sex makes a successful film.

It's amazing how people can completely ignore reality.

Well, if you have piles of cash to throw away...and they do...

[LibFreeOrDie]

How is this film going to be better than "True Confessions" (1981)? That film didn't need explicit sex scenes involving underage (looking) actresses.

Perhaps it's based on one of the latest books about the case ("Black Dahlia Avenger: The True Story" by Steve Hodel), in which the author implicates his own father as the murderer.

http://www.arcadepub.com/book/index.cfm?GCOI=55970100123490

Child actresses have played child prostitutes before - Brooke Shields in "Pretty Baby" and Jodie Foster in "Taxi Driver". If I remember correctly, Jodie's older sister was her body double in a few scenes. Both films were considered a bit scandalous at the time. Not saying DePalma is right, but precedents have already been set, unfortunately.

[AnnaZ]

Better than Nicole Kidman kissing a real 10-year-old boy, though, right? Kinda?

 

I shake my head in Hollywood's general direction.

 

 

(It's the new crop of indies, too BTW:  Ten years later, the 'Kids' are definitely not alright (Hollywood downward spiral continues) ^  GAG!)

[sully777]

OTOH, Michael jackson has got to look forward to something in prison, on cable.