Help, my diary is a best seller
Movie | |
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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. |
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Director | Paul Hoen |
script |
Patrick J. Clifton Beth Rigazio |
production |
Don Schain Sheri Singer |
music | Danny Lux |
camera | Gordon Lonsdale |
cut | Louis F. Cioffi |
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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."
Cast and dubbing
role | actor | German Voice actor |
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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
- Read It and Weep in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- official website
- CineFacts
Individual evidence
- ↑ Help, my diary is a bestseller. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Help, my diary is a bestseller in the German dubbing index , accessed on September 6, 2010