Help, my diary is a best seller

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Movie
German title Help, my diary is a best seller
Original title Read It and Weep
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2006
length 84 minutes
Age rating FSK o.A.
Rod
Director Paul Hoen
script Patrick J. Clifton
Beth Rigazio
production Don Schain
Sheri Singer
music Danny Lux
camera Gordon Lonsdale
cut Louis F. Cioffi
occupation

Help, my diary is a bestseller (Original title: Read It and Weep ) is an American comedy film from 2006 . The series for the Disney Channel Original Movies produced family film based on a novel by Julia DeVillers .

action

Help, my diary is a bestseller begins with freshman Jamie Bartlett. Her three best friends are: Connor, who is in love with her, Lindsay and Harmony. She has a brother named Lenny Bartlett. Her 'arch enemy' is called Sawyer Sullivan, whom she calls "Myrna" in her diary and whose friend Marco she is in love with. She also has a tablet PC on which she keeps a kind of colorful diary every day. In the diary she writes about a character called "Isabella", or simply called "Is", a popular girl with incredible powers, just as she would like to be. Jamie uses her alternate world to write about her feelings, her classmates, her friends, and her life.

When she is given the task of writing an essay on a subject of her choice, her printer goes on strike and Lenny refuses to let her use hers. Lindsay offers to print the essay that Jamie emails her. However, due to a mishap, she sends her diary. After Lindsay has submitted the diary, it wins a writing competition. On the same day, Jamie receives an offer from a publisher. At first Jamie doesn't feel like presenting all of her diaries to the public, but one of Is's imaginations convinces her. From this point on, Is keeps popping up in Jamie's mind telling her how to act. Jamie's book captivates a lot of people and eventually becomes a bestseller. She appears at many book presentations, appears on television shows, and is often interviewed. Success soon rises above her head; she becomes increasingly materialistic and critical of the world around her. She quits her job at the pizzeria and makes a fool of herself about her brother's guitar playing. Her newfound popularity is disappointed when Jamie reveals in a television interview that the antagonist of her novel is based on Sawyer.

When Jamie's classmates realize that the book is based on negative feelings for her school, she tries to restore her relationships, but her former friends are unwilling to trust her again. Her friends start to ignore her and avoid her. When she logs into a chat portal, everyone gradually leaves the chat when they recognize Jamie. Only Connor is left in the end. When she asks him if he hates her, he says that he just hates what has become of her. Thereupon Jamie realizes her mistakes and also discovers some hidden feelings for Connor. Connor writes a positive letter to the editor in the school newspaper. When he shows up at school the next day, she thinks Marko wrote him, which is why Connor is jealous.

To get in tune with her friends and family, she apologizes to her brother Lenny and encourages him to play the guitar again. When Jamie overhears her parents talk about closing the pizzeria, she feels guilty. At the school ball, she tries to apologize to everyone. When she explains that the book was her personal diary, they accept her apology. During the ball, Jamie realizes that Connor wrote the letter to the editor and goes to see him. She asks his forgiveness and they kiss. They go back to the ball where Lenny is playing a song he dedicated to Jamie.

After the ball, she invites everyone to join their parents in the pizzeria. Unfortunately, while the pizza is being baked, some seaweed from Lenny's clothes ends up on the pizza. But the customer likes it, and Jamie's father has an idea how he could save his business.

criticism

"Lightweight youth comedy with flimsy everyday morality and low-expression young actors who try to adapt an illogically developed plot to the target audience with all possible means."

- Lexicon of international film

Cast and dubbing

role actor German Voice actor
Christine Beckler Yolanda Wood Kathrin Simon
Connor Kennedy Jason Dolley Jan Makino
Diana Robin Riker Claudia Lössl
Is Danielle Panabaker Maren Rainer
Lenny Bartlett Nick Whitaker Max fields
Lindsay Marquise C. Brown Malika Bayerwaltes
Marco Vega Chad Broskey Clemens Ostermann
Miss Gallagher Joyce Cohen Marina Koehler
Ralph Bartlett Tom Virtue Claus Brockmeyer
Sawyer Sullivan Allison Scagliotti-Smith Angela Wiederhut
Tim Kennedy KC Clyde Patrick Schröder

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Help, my diary is a bestseller. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ↑ Help, my diary is a bestseller in the German dubbing index , accessed on September 6, 2010