 About 15.9% of families and 18.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 27.0% of those under age 18 and 11.8% of those age 65 or over.Star City, Arkansas was the setting for the 1992 police thriller film "One False Move", starring actors Bill Paxton and Billy Bob Thornton, and written by Thornton.However, only some filming was reportedly done there when it was actually shot in Cotton Plant, AR.