Movie Description:
In this thought provoking documentary,Director Amir Bar-Lev tracks the overnight celebrity of little Marla Olmstead, a toddler who creates gallery-worthy paintings on the dining room table of her family home. A media sensation by the age of four, critics compareher work with Jackson Pollock.Sales of her paintings reach $300,000. But, sadly, the bubble bursts. When a 2005 profile by"60 Minutes" suggests that Marla had help making herpaintings, the finger is pointed at her father, an amateur artist and night manager at Frito Lay. Almost overnight, her family is ensnared in a web ofaccusation and denial- with theburden of proof placed squarely in their lap: is Marla a child prodigy or an innocent victim of a hoax?
