Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen

Plot synopsis:
Mary Elizabeth "Lola" Steppe (Lindsay Lohan) is a 15-year-old girl who grew up in New York City and wants desperately to be a famous Broadway actress. Lola narrates the story. 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. That legend would be me."
At school, Lola makes friends with an unpopular girl, Ella Gerard (Alison Pill), who shares her love for the rock band Sidarthur. Lola idolizes the band's lead singer Stu Wolff (Adam Garcia). She also meets Sam (Eli Marienthal), a cute boy who takes a liking to her, and makes enemies with Carla Santini (Megan Fox), the most popular girl in school.
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. Lola also beats Carla on a dancing video game at an arcade, where Carla reveals that she has tickets to the farewell concert of Sidarthur, who recently decided to break up. Afraid of being one-upped by Carla, Lola falsely claims that Ella and she have tickets, too. 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. Lola explains that they can buy tickets from a scalper, though, and she gets Sam to sneak Eliza's dress out of the costume room for her to wear at the concert.
On the night of the concert, Lola and Ella take a train to New York City, but Lola loses the money for the tickets, and her plan to sneak into the concert does not work. Lola and Ella finally give up and walk through the city to Stu's after-show party. When they get there, Stu stumbles drunkenly out of the building and passes out in an alley. The two girls take him to a diner to sober him up, but he gets in trouble, and they end up at a police station, where Lola gives her father's New York City address.
At this point, Lola's dishonesty becomes a problem. When she met Ella, she tried to impress her by telling her a dramatic story about her father dying years earlier. Ella highly values honesty, so she becomes infuriated when she discovers that Lola's story was a lie. After Lola's father arrives, and they explain what happened, Stu gratefully takes them all back to the party, where Ella forgives Lola for lying, and the two girls see Carla, who sees them, as well, and looks upset. Lola talks with Stu about his work, but is disappointed to discover that he is a drunk.
Back at school, Carla humiliates Lola by denying that she saw Lola or Ella at the party and calling Lola a liar. None of the other students believes Lola's story about being arrested with Stu and leaving her necklace at his house.
Afterward, Lola goes home, depressed, and refuses to perform in the play, but she is spurred on by Ella's encouragement and arrives backstage just in time to prevent Carla from taking over her part. As she is about to go on stage, her mother wishes her good luck and finally calls her by her nickname, "Lola". The modernist interpretation of Pygmalion (Eliza Rocks) ensues. After a great performance that brings a standing ovation, the cast goes to an after-party at Carla's house, where Stu arrives to see Lola. Carla tries to save herself from humiliation by saying he is there to see her, but is proved wrong when Stu gives Lola her necklace in front of everyone. As Carla's lies become apparent, she backs away from the crowd on the verge of tears and falls into a fountain, greeted by everyone's laughter. In a conciliatory gesture, Lola helps her up, and Carla accepts defeat. After dancing with Stu, Lola dances with Sam, and they eventually share a kiss.

Tags: dramatic, comedy

Review:
'Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen' comes as a disappointment from Lindsay Lohan after the very funny 'Freaky Friday' and 'Mean Girls'.
Other parts involve a school play where Lola is cast for the leading role and Carla only for a small supporting role.I am not sure why this film was made, but I guess to show Lohan dancing, singing, being arrogant, learning her lesson, have a happy ending, do some more dancing and some more singing.
Not for male adults, not for teenage girls.I like Lindsay Lohan, a lot actually, therefore I was able to finish this film.
I won't say much as to not ruin the movie for those who have not seen it but i will give my opinion on the mood of the film and such.If you want to see this, don't expect a deep and meaningful (or realistic) outlook on highschool life because it is your everyday teen/highschool comedy with the over-used storyline of new girl vs popular girl then new girl gets the guy and brings popular girl down.
Lindsay Lohan plays Lola, a hip Greenwich Village teenager who moves to a new school in a Jersey suburb, where she faces Carla Santini, a girl claiming to be the most popular girl at her school, a title that Lola must have no matter what.
After trying to nab the lead role in the school play, the competition between the two girls culminates at a sold-out concert by Lola's favorite band that Carla conveniently has tickets to see.The previews made the film seem boring and for the most part it is.
"Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen" is the story of Lola Cep, played by Lindsey Lohan, trying to fit into a new town and school after moving from New York.
It is all part of her attempt to be more interesting.I really thought the movie could have been better.Lohan does a great job playing the "drama queen" and for the most part her character is believable.Her new friend Ella, played by Alison Pill, is the nice rich girl while Carla, played by Megan Fox, is the nasty bitch rich girl and Lola's main nemesis.I was in drama club in high school and those scenes did seem believable as the group is preparing for the school musical.
Carol Kane's Miss Baggoli was a bit too loopy but my drama directors could be strange.The problem was the story.The main theme of the movie, as I saw it, was Lola building this fantasy world for her life, having it crash down as lie built upon lie does eventually, then comes redemption and she becomes a better person for it in the end.
The performances are almost uniformly terrible (Lohan should have played the rich snob, for starters), and the film's rock-musical adaptation of PYGMALION (yes, you read that correctly) is one of the more painful things I've ever had to sit through.
It gives me new appreciation for THE LIZZIE MCGUIRE MOVIE, which is a bad film, but whose star now looks like a beacon of modesty and talent compared to Lohan in this make-me-a-star-now vehicle.
Critics trashed the movie; but, then again, critics are probably mostly 40-year-old men, and I can see how people like that would not appreciate this film.Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, all together, was a well-put film that truly entertained me (and just about everyone else in the theatre).
I would recommend this film to Lindsey Lohan fan's who like her music more than her acting and 10 year old girls..
Every detail of the movie is 'flufftacular,' from the casting (notables: the 'dork' sidekick best friend, the cutie-patootie guy friend/crush, the rich-bitch popular girl, the wacky drama teacher) to the costumes (the high school girl's version of Sarah Jessica Parker's if-only-I-had-the-guts-to-wear-that wardrobe) to the soundtrack (Atomic Kitten, Simple Plan, Lillix, Wakefield, and tracks by Lohan herself that I guarantee you'll be humming).
The familiar dilemma of juggling one's dreams with the realities of school, family and self-esteem is there - but it is first & foremost about friendship, portrayed in a wonderful, natural way by Alison Pill (Ella) and Lindsay Lohan (Lola/Marie).
I couldn't believe how bad Lindsay Lohan was in this after she made some good efforts in movies such as "The Parent Trap", "Freaky Friday", and my current favorite, "Mean Girls".
"Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen" is one of her lamer efforts, and so far it's the worst movie I've seen this year.While watching this garbage, I asked myself.
I've recommended many movies that might not appeal to men like A Little Princess and Mean Girls but 'Drama Queen' is NOT for us.
She's crazy, I guess it was because of all the bright colors and costumes worn by Lindsay Lohan and maybe she liked the musical finale as well, which was the worst part of the movie, in my opinion.
Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen looks like a very over-produced film (every scene features loud bright colours, neon lights, heavy costume design..etc)and the scene where Lola and Carla (Megan Fox) are sitting in the auditorium features heavy blurring, thereby making the scene a tad jarring.
I did think that Lohan, Garcia and Kane gave solid performances even if the latter two didn't get as much screen time.The film is far from the worst ever made, but it is definitely one of Lohan's weaker films, especially compared to the likes of "Freaky Friday" and "Mean girls".
When the teenager Mary Elizabeth Cep (Lindsay Lohan), a.k.a. Lola, moves with her mother and two younger twin sisters from New York to the suburb of Dellwood, New Jersey, she has the feeling that her cultural and entertaining world ended.
However, the girls get into trouble while helping the lead singer and Lola's idol Stu Wolf (Adam Garcia), changing their lives forever."Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen" is a delightful entertaining, with one of those predictable but sweet stories with a message in the end, as usual in Walt Disney movies.
I personally like the gorgeous Lindsay Lohan, who is a starlet in this movie, acting, singing and dancing in a sweet character.
I didn't think it was very cute, and it makes all the pretty girls at school out to be b*itches, and that includes Lohan's character, Lola.
Sam deserves someone better, not a lying selfish, not to mention weird, bitch who thinks that everyone's a retard so getting what she wants wont be difficult!Then I smirked as we got near the end when you know that Disney was just putting in stuff to cover up this evil characterlike telling a rock star he's drunk and get him on rehab the next day?
Is "Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen" a good vehicle for her?Ah well, four out of five isn't a bad average.You can't deny that this lives up to its title; the heroine, uprooted from her beloved New York City to a New Jersey town and thus derailed from her dreams of becoming an actress, lies and overreacts to everything around her while keeping us additionally informed in voiceovers.
It all seems like we're watching a feature-length After School Special, and not a particularly good one at that; maybe the running time of less than 90 minutes kept anything from being developed, but even so it would have been nice if director Sara Sugarman and writer Gail Parent had given the elements some kind of balance (the whole business with her favourite group Sidarthur's farewell performance and the shenanigans involved with it takes up far too much time, and we don't get to see enough of how she fares in her new town).It doesn't really register as anything, and the heavy-handed use of songs on the soundtrack doesn't help (every time the school's resident snob appears, up pops that song by Lumidee).
And why does the school musical practically scream "Fame"?Alison Pill (as her new best friend) and Adam Garcia (as the singer with Sidarthur) are a big help, but most of the highlights of the movie are, sorry to say, the FX-filled fantasy sequences from Amoeba Proteus - and surely there has to be something wrong when such is the case in a movie like this.
But I have a feeling that "A Cinderella Story" will be more suited to Miss D than this movie is to Lindsay.Ah well, we in the UK still haven't seen "Mean Girls"....
If I had the chance to meet a star that a girl I hated wanted to meet so bad AND crashed his party, and then no one believed me, I'd feel really bad and annoyed.The play at the end of the movie was ok.
Coming off an extremely successful performance in the summer hit Freaky Friday, Lindsay Lohan does her best to save the flat and unimpressive script of Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen.Lohan stars as Lola, a teenage Manhattan girl whose dream is to become a famous actress.
I knowingly and willingly recorded and watched a film called "Confessions of a Drama Queen", knowing full well at the time that it starred Lindsay Lohan and that it was unlikely to offer the sort of mature character development that I would normally look for in a drama.
It is not totally without appeal because I suppose teenage girls do like these fantasy films where people just like them with pushing parents and school problems get to meet the pop star of their dreams, be proved right after all, find a boyfriend etc  indeed the sheer volume of "good things" that happen at once in the final scene of the film just showed a real contempt for the audience in my opinion.
For example, judging a standard family movie like "Madagascar" against some type of epic adult feature such as "The Godfather" would be ridiculous - different genre, different crowd, different goal as a movie.But "Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen" doesn't even stack up against other family films of its kind.
On one level it begs to be some type of satirical comment on drama queens and materialism, but that's EXACTLY what the film falls victim to - its lead character, played by the despicable Lindsay Lohan, is a trashy drama queen who apparently spends all her free time lusting after a hunky teen icon.
Hot teen foxes MUST do better, Lindsay-love.In this movie, the brighter star is relegated to playing the bad girl.
But I suppose Hilary was off on a rock tour.Movie itself is kinda drab and one big yawn and Walt Disney is really in the doldrums judging by the junk they advertise on the DVD which does succeed to make CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE DRANA QUEEN look like a sparkling Ferris wheel.
That is of course not the point, because for a high-school girl these things would be, like, super-super- important, but the movie is kind of a storm in a teacup itself.
Lindsay Lohan does give a very entertaining performance as Lola, a girl who moves to New Jersey, and the film really starts from there.
I went through high school, too, and I have never met a girl as in-your-face nasty as the movie's reigning status queen, a drama director as awkward and flaky as Miss Baggoli, or a boy as flat and uninteresting as Lohan's "love interest" Sam (okay that's a lie.
Confessions of a Teenage Drama QueenMary (Lindsay Lohan), who likes to be now called Lola, is being moved from New York, along with her younger twin sisters by their mum, Karen (Glenn Headly).
How do you get "Lola" out of Mary Elizabeth?I give it 2 stars Oh by the way, the acting was normal for a girl like Lindsay..
Horror, Thriller, and Dramas are way better than stupid comedy/drama movies that show teenage girls singing and crap like that.
Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen wasn't at all like a Freaky Friday movie.
And excellent performances from the supporting cast support Lindsay Lohan's adequate one in the title role."Lola" is a Manhattan girl transplanted to Dellville, New Jersey, against her will.
Lola finds a loyal friend in Ella(Alison Pill), who helps in her desire for the coveted lead in the school play; as well stays by her side as the class princess Carla(Megan Fox)and prissy clique try to make light of the attractive New Yorker.
I have a soft spot for quirky teenage geared movies and this looked like another I would thoroughly enjoy but, no luck.The movie follows "Lola", played by Lindsay Lohan, a quirky, overactive imagination teenager who is transplanted from New York to New Jersey.
I love Lindsay Lohan, and I thought she was great in Freaky Friday, and maybe the reason she annoyed me so much in this movie was the fact that she was TOO good.
I know a lot of people will think this movie is pointless and stupid, but they are just like a character in the film named, Carla.
Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen is a family film in which actress/singer Lindsay Lohan really shines!
In 'Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen' - which hits what is surely a new low in dreadful 'Clueless' clones - Lindsay Lohan plays a 15-year old girl who suffers what the filmmakers obviously see as a fate worse than death: being forced to move from New York City to suburban New Jersey (from the way she carries on, one would think her mother were dragging her off to live in Iraq or Afghanistan).
One element of the 'plot' involves Lola starring as Eliza Doolittle in a preposterously bad high school musical version of 'Pygmalion.' My suggestion to all those young ladies out there is to skip this film entirely and watch 'My Fair Lady' instead..
He does it really great as Stu.Of cause some of the scenes are just to show Lindsay Lohan, like in the end where she sings at the High school musical.
Lindsay Lohan's performance was decent, although it feels the same like "Mean Girls".This is a very forgettable film.
I especially like the scene where Lindsay Lohan's (who plays Lola) hair is being messed up while trying to get ready for the concert.
Lindsay Lohan really got into the character of Lola Cep, as she had all the motions of drama queen.
The plot on a whole is good, but the cast possibly isn't.I don't berate Lindsay Lohan when I say this, but this just sounds like Mean Girls, with a few script rewrites.
I thought Ella was adorable, and reminds me a lot of myself - never wanting to stray from the rules.The ending involving Lola and Sam was not needed at all, as it featured a storyline that had barely been touched on in the movie at all, and wasn't at all related to the main storyline.Despite my negative comments, this was a quite good film, with a few flaws - 7/10..
So very needless to say I was looking forward to Lindsay Lohan's new movie Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen.
The movie is about a girl named Lola (Lindsay Lohan) who has just moved from New York City to a small town in New Jersey.
I only hope that Lindsay Lohan's new film Mean Girls is better than this one.
Lohan is quickly becoming a star, one to rival Hilary Duff; movies like 'Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen' will serve to elevate her and her work to the popularity it deserves.
From start to finish it remained a typical Disney Teen Movie, the main role of Lola is played by Lindsay Lohan.
Dyan Feldon wrote the book in which the movie is based, and Gail Parent, a woman who knows how to write comedy, adapted it for the screen.The film best asset is Lindsay Lohan, who plays the main character, Lola.
After watching it, a new star, Lola, is born.The film capitalizes on Lindsay Lohan's talent.
Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (2004): Dir: Sara Sugarman / Cast: Lindsay Lohan, Glenne Headly, Adam Garcia, Alison Pill, Megan Fox: Amusing and colourful teen comedy about a girl who dreams of becoming an actress but her family moves from New York to the suburbs.
Lindsay Lohan stars as this Lola (she makes up her name because she doesn't like hers, Mary).
Here is the plot: Lola, played by Lindsay Lohan (Freaky Friday, The Parent Trap) is an egocentric teenage girl who has a passion for acting and singing and dreams of Hollywood.
Here is the plot: Lola, played by Lindsay Lohan (Freaky Friday, The Parent Trap) is an egocentric teenage girl who has a passion for acting and singing and dreams of Hollywood.
4/10So this movie comes down to this:If you're a *true fan* of Ms. Lohan, you will get delightful scenes of her in the movie, and you should watch it.If you're looking a *different movie*, one which mixes teen romance, drama (as the title suggests), a bit of comedy and music, then give it a try.If you're just too picky, or none of the above, read the other reviews and make your own call.It worked for me, and I believe the international movie database's rate of 4.0/10 is a fair one..
4/10So this movie comes down to this:If you're a *true fan* of Ms. Lohan, you will get delightful scenes of her in the movie, and you should watch it.If you're looking a *different movie*, one which mixes teen romance, drama (as the title suggests), a bit of comedy and music, then give it a try.If you're just too picky, or none of the above, read the other reviews and make your own call.It worked for me, and I believe the international movie database's rate of 4.0/10 is a fair one..
I thought the story was good but the lead character that Lindsay Lohan plays was bad!
I don't think that this movie helps self-conscious girls in any way!!The only good parts of this film was from actress Alison Pill who plays Lohan's best friend.