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Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story

30 Apr 1988
43 min
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The final 17 years of American singer and musician Karen Carpenter, performed almost entirely by modified Barbie dolls. The first film from Todd Haynes (Velvet Goldmine, I'm Not There), Superstar is a hauntingly beautiful biopic that garnered immediate praise among the local film community but quickly received 2 cease-and-desist letters from Mattel, the maker of Barbie, and Karen Carpenter's family. To this day, this movie has not seen further release.

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Ronald Reagan

(archive footage) as himself

Michael Edwards

Richard (voice)

Richard Nixon

(archive footage) as himself

Rob LaBelle

Dad / Mr. A&M (voice)

Todd Haynes

Todd Donovan

Merrill Gruver

Karen (voice)

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Cynthia Schneider

Dionne Warwick (voice)

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Melissa Brown

Mother (voice)

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Bruce Tuthill

Narrator (voice)

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Gwen Kraus

Narrator (voice)

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