Starsitter

Dinner with vegetarian gangsta-rappers? Temper tantrums over old school designer logos? A last minute curling-iron crisis? All in a day's work for 27 year old Grace Daniels the unwitting guardian to Maddy Malone Hollywood's next teenage it-girl. Plucked from her Chicago day job as an interior decorator Grace is thrust into starsitting at a local movie shoot when her Aunt Lana begs off sick one day. On the set Grace meets Maddy the temperamental if talented young starlet. Somehow navigating the outbursts and mood-swings Grace manages to endear herself to Maddy and Maddy's only-too-happy-to-be-absent mother. So Grace can hardly refuse when they ask her to go with Maddy to Los Angeles as her adult accompaniment. And neither can Grace's boss Jake who thinks it will be a great opportunity for Grace to scout out the interior design market on the west coast.</p><p>Once in LA a bewildered Grace tries to keep her Prada-toting charge happy as she shepherds her through photo-shoots radio interviews and morning hangovers. When Grace isn't shielding Maddy from her fans or helping her dodge calls from her publicist an exhausted Grace finds herself catering to the every whim of her almost A-lister. As Grace grows more accustomed to Maddy's ways she begins to understand that despite all the celebrity stuff Maddy really is just a kid struggling to look cool in front of her friends without getting crushed by the pressures of Hollywood. Inspired by a true story <I>StarSitter<I> depicts how handling a young celebrity may be more hazardous than glamorous to one's mental health.</p>