In 'Kid 90,' Soleil Moon Frye opens a time capsule about being young and famous in the '90s

Turns out Soleil Moon Frye -- TV's "Punky Brewster" -- meticulously documented her formative years, recently wading back through home movies, phone messages and photos and assembling them into "Kid 90," a documentary that she calls "A true chronological blueprint of what it was to grow up as a teenager in the '90s." But Frye was a special teen -- one with Zelig-like exposure to practically everyone else who was young and famous during those years.

Premiering on Hulu, the 70-some-odd-minute film really plays like a companion to another recent documentary, Alex Winter's HBO film "Showbiz Kids," presenting a nostalgic but troubling vision of what it was like to be a child star. As proof, the film ends with sobering snapshots of all the friends that Frye, now 44, lost along the way. Cast in her NBC sitcom at age seven, Frye cites her own questions as to whether "things really happened the way I remembered them" as motivation for the project, enlisting other former kid actors -- one wants to call them survivors -- to share their recollections. The list includes Stephen Dorff, Brian Austin Green, David Arquette, Balthazar Getty, Mark-Paul Gosselaar and more.