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Actors: Hilary Duff, Oliver James, Jason Ritter, John Corbett
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Raise Your Voice |
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Terrie is a small-town girl who loves to sing. She applies for a very prestigious music program, but her father says she can't go. This makes her brother really mad and he decides that he along with his aunt and their mom will make sure Terrie goes if she gets in. Then the plans change when her brother gets killed. Terrie is very sad, but her Aunt and her Mother still insist that she go to the program. Her aunt, Nina asks her dad if Terrie can spend the summer with her, and Terries dad agrees. Then Nina sends Terrie off to the music program. Terrie tries to fit in, but she feels like everyone else is better than her. Also, there is a snobbish popular girl who works very hard to make her life miserable. Terrie wants to come home, but she knows she can't, she will just have to find some way to fit in.
--Cloud City, Resident Scholar
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This movie begins with Teri Fletcher finishing school for the holidays and her brother, Paul, graduating from high school. When they get home for a family graduation party, Teri brings up that she wants to go to a music school for singing over the summer holidays. All her family think it is a good idea except her dad, Simon, who refuses to let her go. Paul stands up for Teri and gets in a big fight with Simon. Later Teri goes to Paul's room because in all the fighting earlier she had forgotten to give him his graduation present - tickets to Three Days Grace for that night. Teri and Paul sneak out and have a great time at the concert.
On the way home Paul is driving and a drunk driver goes through a red light and hits their car. Next thing, Teri wakes up in a hospital bed to find out that Paul had been killed instantly. Even when Teri is let out of hospital, she can't seem to get back to her happy, bubbly self and decides not to sing again.
One day she gets a letter in the mail telling her that she got accepted into the music school. She doesn't want to go anymore but after some persuasion by her mum and aunt they decide to tell her father that she is going to stay with her aunt but she would actually go to the school.
When she gets to the school she is assigned an unfriendly roommate called Denise, who is very focused with winning the scholarship the school offers.
Teri finds it hard to make friends but eventually meets Jay, Kiwi and Sloane and even Denise loosens up. Teri's heart still isn't in the school and one day a teacher, Mr. Torvald, takes her aside and asks what happened to the happy girl he saw on her entrance DVD. Teri didn't even send in a DVD, she sent in a demo CD so Mr. Torvald showed her the DVD. It was filmed by her brother and he had secretly sent it in the night he died. Teri leaves the room in tears and Jay finds her and calms her down. They begin to like each other and they decide to do a duet together at the concert at the end of the year which determines who wins the scholarship. They work on it together but when Jay's ex, Robin, decides she wants Jay for herself, Jay cheats on Teri and Teri sees it all. Teri refuses to talk to Jay who wants her back. In the end they make up and perform their song together at the concert, but not before Teri's dad finds out she lied to him and is in fact at the music school.
--Laura B, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Raise Your Voice |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Time/era of movie:
- present (2000-2010)
Kids growing up/acting up?
Yes
Getting ahead in:
- entertainment world
Job/Profession/Poverty Story?
Yes
Job:
- singer
Training/apprentice story
Yes
Age group
- trouble in high school
Sexing?
- guy chasing
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- singer/musician
Age:
- a teen
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- blonde
Hair type
- (woman) long straight
- (woman) long wavey
Body type
- (woman) average
Events of movie makes character more...
- happy
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average build
How much in movie?
- 40%
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
- British
Main Adversary
Identity:
- none
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 40%
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- West
City?
Yes
City:
- Los Angeles
Misc setting
- school
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
- explicit references to deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- encouraged
- thoughtful
Any profanity?
- None
- Occasional swearing
If lots of song/dance...
- lot of singing
If this is a kid's movie...
- Ages 10-15
If soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Modern rock/pop
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