![]() ![]() Ella highly values honesty, so she becomes infuriated when she discovers that Lola's story was a lie. When she first met Ella, she tried to impress her by telling her a dramatic story about her father dying years earlier. The two girls take him to a diner to sober him up, but when he hits a cop with a doughnut, the three of them end up at a police station, where Lola gives her father's New York City address.Īt this point, Lola's dishonesty becomes problematic. When they arrive there, Stu stumbles drunkenly out of the building and passes out in an alley. Lola and Ella finally give up and walk through the city to Stu's after-show party. On the night of the concert, Lola and Ella take a train to New York City, but Lola accidentally leaves the money for the tickets on the train, and her plan to sneak into the concert fails. However, Lola explains that they can buy tickets from a scalper, and gets Sam to sneak Eliza's dress out of the costume room for her to wear at the concert. She loses her chance to buy tickets and new clothes when her mother takes away her allowance, and the concert is sold out by the time she persuades Ella to pay for the tickets. Afraid of being one-upped by Carla, Lola falsely claims that she and Ella also have tickets. Lola also beats Carla on a dancing video game at an arcade, whereupon Carla reveals that she has tickets to the farewell concert of Sidarthur, which recently decided to dissolve. When Lola auditions for the school play, a modernized musical version of Pygmalion called Eliza Rocks, she is chosen over Carla to play Eliza, and Carla promises to make her life miserable. She also meets Sam, a cute boy who takes a liking to her, and makes enemies with Carla Santini, the most popular girl in school. Lola idolizes the band's lead singer, Stu Wolff. That legend would be me."Īt school, Lola befriends an unpopular girl, Ella Gerard, who shares her love for the rock band Sidarthur. Much to her annoyance, she moves with her family to the suburbs of Dellwood, New Jersey, but she confidently tells the audience, "A legend is about to be born. Narrator Mary Elizabeth "Lola" Steppe is a 15-year-old girl who grew up in New York City and wants desperately to become a famous Broadway actress. On July 20, 2004, it was released on VHS and DVD. It was released on February 20, 2004, by Buena Vista Pictures to mostly negative critical reaction, but was a modest commercial success, reaching number two at the box office, behind 50 First Dates. The film introduced Megan Fox in her theatrical film acting debut. It stars Lindsay Lohan as an aspiring teenage actress whose family moves from New York City to New Jersey, Adam Garcia as her favorite rock musician, Glenne Headly as her mother and Alison Pill as her best friend. The wide-open ending will have young drama-queens-in-training eagerly searching the shelves for the next installment of Lola's adventures.Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen is a 2004 American teen musical comedy film directed by Sara Sugarman from a screenplay by Gail Parent, based on Dyan Sheldon's 1999 novel of the same name. bad girl story and a rib-tickling romp through the petty kingdom (or in this case, queen-dom) of small-town high school popularity politics. With Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, Dyan Sheldon has written a classic good girl vs. Can Lola crash the concert, crush Carla, and still have enough energy to wow everyone in the school production of Pygmalion? It's all in a day's work for Lola, Teenage Drama Queen. In retaliation, Carla makes the entire student body give Lola the silent treatment (and in addition scores tickets to a sold-out concert of Lola's favorite rock band). Undaunted, Lola tries out for and wins the lead in the school play, a role much desired by Carla. Carla, who is "sophisticated, beautiful, and radiates confidence the way a towering inferno radiates heat," isn't about to let anyone take away her hard-earned crown. According to Lola, "living in the suburbs is like being dead, only with cable TV and pizza delivery." The worst part is that someone has already snagged the coveted Drama Queen of Suburbia title-and that someone is Carla Santini. But all this changes when she is forced to move from her beloved Manhattan to the boring suburbs of New Jersey. ![]() Her pottery-making single mom and bratty twin sisters are merely bit players in Lola's dramatic existence. Lola, is accustomed to playing the starring role in the fascinating production that is her life. ![]()
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