A Former Child Star Who Is Actually Getting Work

If you didn't already know the trivia that the human head weighs eight pounds before you watched Jerry Maguire, then the cuteness seared into your brain by the adorable delivery of said fact by a kindergarten-bound Jonathan Lipnicki pretty much ensures that you do now. Hell, anyone who saw the trailer for the movie could easily answer the Jeopardy question. The fact that that clip alone will probably be akin to Lipnicki's epitaph no matter how successful he ever becomes makes me feel bad for the kid. That, and the fact that he looked like Cousin Oliver with spikey hair. The young actor has worked quite a bit since, but I for one can't remember a single part without having to think about it for several minutes, and then only because I happened to attend a screening of The Little Vampire at the Edinburgh Film Festival in 2000 and got a free TLV T-shirt. (The movie name on the shirt was glow-in-the-dark. It was otherwise unremarkable.) But it turns out Lipnicki is still getting acting work, his latest part a starring turn in the upcoming psychological thriller The Other Side of Innocence.

In the film, he'll play a damaged young man who becomes romantically involved with the unhappy daughter of the local chief detective while a serial killer is threatening their town. The script was written by a guy (Robert Redlin) who has only a few credits under his belt and will be directed by Devorah Cutler, who has just about the same amount of experience. The most interesting not-very-experienced person who will be working behind the scenes, though, comes in the form of Rhonda Lipnicki, Jonathan's mother, who is producing. Not that smaller productions and newcomer talent can't be great -- they often are -- but for a kid who's still in high school, and who's got a fairly lengthy IMDB page for his age, getting a part because your mom is producing has got to be a little humiliating. Hopefully the tease-happy kids who attend Augora High with him aren't reading The Hollywood Reporter.

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