![]() ![]() Frye’s desire to learn what she can from her unusual childhood in the spotlight is unquestionably sincere, but the recollections and reflections she’s willing to impart perhaps belong more in a diary than a documentary. Save for the celebrity that Frye had sex with during her first time, the film is also mostly devoid of gossip and even colorful anecdotes.īy the time Frye leaves Los Angeles for New York for college - and later visits friend Danny Boy O’Connor of the rap group House of Pain in Oklahoma to remember their teenage years together - whatever narrative imposed on this footage feels stretched to the limit. Glendora, California, USA Nickname Punky Height 5 1 (1.55 m) Mini Bio Soleil Moon Frye began acting at the age of two, after seeing her father, veteran actor Virgil Frye, and brother, Meeno Peluce, on TV. The footage is cut up into seconds-long clips, providing bursts of youthful ebullience but little sense of what these actors were “really” like. It’s certainly novel to see the younger versions of so many familiar faces, but kid 90 doesn’t offer anything beyond what a YouTube deep dive might yield, even if these videos haven’t been seen before. (The lone woman among them is Heather McComb.) The absence of this cohort’s female members may explain why there are surprisingly few #MeToo-style revelations of sexual impropriety, though Frye shares her own experiences of sexual harassment and hypersexualization on set. Kid 90’s account of child stardom during the Clinton years is further skewed by the unexplained disproportionate maleness of both Frye’s camera subjects and talking-head interviewees, which include Gosselaar, Green, Stephen Dorff, David Arquette and Balthazar Getty. But the more interesting question is whether that inability or refusal to see the darkness around her ultimately helped Frye survive all these years. Later, Frye regrets that she didn’t see what she now interprets as her friends’ cries for help. Nor is there much insight into the struggles of actors who didn’t enjoy the security and stability of a family like Frye’s, which also benefitted from a multigenerational familiarity with the industry. But it’s hard to get a sense of how these friendships were formed and how solid they were, given the likelihood that the young performers were frequently competing for the same roles at audition after audition. Rather than provide an overview of this phenomenon, Frye grounds her point of view strictly within her social circles, which seem relatively tame. ![]() The ’90s witnessed an increasing professionalization of child stardom, especially with the spread of cable expanding both the number of roles for young actors and of shows for children and teenagers. ![]()
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