Everybody Famous is a quirky dutch black comedy in which Marva, a seventeen year old girl, regularly enters talent contests as a singer and loses. Her father, Jean, loses his job and then dedicates his free time to coming up with a plan to make his daughter a star. One day, he happens upon a broken down car, and when he offers to help, discovers that the driver is a the biggest singer in the country, a beautiful girl named Debbie. He decides to kidnap her.
Jean follows through with his abduction of Debbie, but the news of her disappearance causes her record sales to skyrocket. This gives her manager the idea to work out a deal with Jean to keep his star in the headlines. Jean is an aspiring songwriter and so he agrees to compose some songs for Debbie and to have his daughter Marva appear on national television. She has no talent, is overweight, and unattractive, but her father perseveres in the quest for stardom. The result is an off beat satire that works.
Jean follows through with his abduction of Debbie, but the news of her disappearance causes her record sales to skyrocket. This gives her manager the idea to work out a deal with Jean to keep his star in the headlines. Jean is an aspiring songwriter and so he agrees to compose some songs for Debbie and to have his daughter Marva appear on national television. She has no talent, is overweight, and unattractive, but her father perseveres in the quest for stardom. The result is an off beat satire that works.