Honey Halloway (Lucy Fry) is a 16 year old child star poised for adulthood. She is famous as "Monkey Girl" and her mom Beth (Portia de Rossi) wants to move on to the next step of fame: sex sells. She is poised to release a sexy video and nude photo shoot. Her plans are interrupted when she gets popped at the airport and goes to rehab. Honey, who like Monkey Girl, knows nothing of the real world, moves in with relatives and disrupts the life of everyone she touches.
Honey has a bunch of relatives whose lives she can mess up, so it keeps things going. Unfortunately the film sounds a bit better than it was executed. Lucy Durack did an excellent job as Katie, reminding me of an Australian Anne Kendrick. Aimed at a teen girl.
Guide: The film had something that sounded like an F-bomb, but maybe it wasn't. There is some brief nudity ( Robyn Butler).
Plot summary
Caroline Morgan is delighted when her sister, Beth, brings her movie star daughter, Honey Halloway, home for a visit. But when Beth is suddenly sent to rehab, Caroline is forced to have Honey move in to her suburban home. Honey struggles with life without an entourage, and her cousins, Clare and Harriet, struggle with a movie star hogging the bathroom. But after Honey leads Caroline to uncover a family secret, Caroline struggles most of all, as her life quickly falls apart. Trapped together in the house, a middle-aged woman and a teen starlet must each wrestle with who they really are.
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Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Here We Go Again...
Why do we totally suck at film-making in this country! (Australia that is!).
Name 5 great films to come out of Australia in the past 30yrs? I really wish I could!
Animal Kingdom, Mad Max Fury Road, Chopper....um ok struggling now....The Castle and....um....Wolf Creek maybe....definitely could not name 10. OK Priscilla Queen of the Desert, um....Crocodile Dundee....um...struggle street now...
This is yet another plain, uninspiring, unoriginal, nothing flick that you don't watch you endure and wonder how the hell it was funded and why?
It's not clever nor witty or even remotely interesting.
I find it so hypocritical of Robyn Butler to say part of the overall message is how society over sexualises teenagers who don't have a clue about nor are in touch with their own sexuality at such a young age (16) and yet in almost every scene Lucy Fry is in she is either wearing a bikini, short shorts or some revealing outfit! Usually there is no reason for this at all. Her first few scenes for example in the swimming pool or when she is just lazing around the house.
It feels like the pilot to some awful TV drama that never got made and not a motion picture.
Not sure how it did at the cinema, did it even make it there?
Please stop funding this sub-standard dribble especially if tax payers money is being used.
Terrible Film! Simply Terrible
We should stop giving films the okay to do unbelievable things and to you the say "It's just a movie" to get away. The whole plot line revolves around the mother of the 16 year old famous Honey trying to lose her innocent look by getting her to become a pop star whose line are all about sex and to have naked photos of her leaked. While the mothers excuse is believable that she wants fame and is on pills, but the rest of the film falls quickly apart. A Local Paparazzi takes window photos of a 16 year old girl and tries to blackmail the family, although in Australia he would've broken dozens of laws and would be facing a big number in prison. The whole husband twist was so foreseen that it added nothing to the story, neither did the romantic interest or the extra detail of the sisters.