Gary Coleman says in an interview toward the end of HBO's Showbiz Kids. The Diff'rent Strokes actor is just one of many former child stars who appear in HBO's transfixing documentary, which details, in shocking frankness, the difficulties that many actors and actresses we saw grow up on-screen faced as their careers were just beginning.
Directed by Alex Winter, who is best known as Bill from Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure but is now an accomplished director, Showbiz Kids uses archival footage and interviews with former child stars — Wil Wheaton, Evan Rachel Wood, Milla Jovovich, Todd Bridges, and others — to paint a picture of Hollywood as a star-making machine that chews up and spits out many youngsters, robbing them of their childhood.
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