Kirsten Dunst once again on firm ground with newfangled movie, 'All Good Things': Kirsten Dunst was losing it, and Hollywood was starting to worry. During production of 2008's "How to Lose Friends & Alienate People," she and her boyfriend broke up, and director Robert Weide saw "a girl who was just right on the edge, emotionally feeling wiped out and devastated."

Perhaps it was inevitable. After all, she'd been acting for more than two decades — and was only in her mid-twenties. She had started performing in commercials when she was 4. Her earnings were set aside for college, but she never went — those plans were derailed when, at 12, her career took off after a Golden Globe-nominated turn opposite Brad Pitt in "Interview With the Vampire."

She went on to become Mary Jane Watson in three Spider-Man films that took in more than $2.5 billion at the box office worldwide. But aside from that, the quintessential girl-next-door seemed to be floundering. Tabloids presented her as an out-of-control party girl, publishing photos of her bleary-eyed and bra-less, while blogger Perez Hilton labeled her "KiKi Drunkst." Her career wasn't faring much better: She had appeared in several flops, like the Cameron Crowe romantic comedy "Elizabethtown," and Sofia Coppola's retelling of "Marie Antoinette."