Read It and Weep

Plot synopsis:
Read It and Weep begins with freshman Jameson "Jamie" Bartlett (Kay Panabaker), who has three best friends named Connor (who has a crush on her) (Jason Dolley), Lindsay (Marquise Brown), and Harmony (Alexandra Krosney), a brother named Lenny Bartlett (Nick Whitaker) and a very mean enemy named Sawyer Sullivan (Allison Scagliotti) (who she calls "Myrna" in her journal and the novel), whose boyfriend Marco is the object of Jamie's affection. She also owns a tablet PC which she writes in every day. In that journal she writes about a character named "Isabella," or "Is" (Danielle Panabaker), a popular girl with incredible powers based loosely on herself. Jamie uses her tablet PC as her own little universe, where she tells about different people, and stories, but in actuality is her own life, just a little more imaginative.
As an English assignment, she has to write an essay of her choice. Her printer dies and Lenny refuses to let her use his. Lindsay offers to print the essay if Jamie emails it to her, but she accidentally sends her the journal. After Lindsay turns the journal in for the English assignment, it wins a writing contest. Jamie's book attracts a lot of publicity and eventually becomes a bestseller. She appears at many book signings, reality TV shows, is often interviewed, and meets stars whom she has always wanted to meet. Soon, success gets the better of Jamie; she becomes increasingly materialistic and critical of the world around her, quitting her job at her father's pizza place, ridiculing her brother's guitar playing, and favoring fame over her friends. Her newfound popularity is dashed when she inadvertently reveals on a television interview that the antagonist of her novel is based on Sawyer and all of her other life dramas.
As Jamie's classmates learn that the book was based on Jamie's negative feelings toward her school, she wishes to restore her relationships but her friends are unwilling to trust her again. Her friends begin to reject and avoid her. To make up for her mistakes, she apologizes to her brother, Lenny, encouraging him to take up his guitar playing once more, despite what she'd said. Jamie overhears her parents' conversation about having to close down the pizza parlor, and Jamie feels guilty.
As she is getting ready for the school dance, Jamie confronts Is, a figment of her imagination who tries to make Jamie like she is and acts as the main antagonist of the movie (next to Sawyer/Myrna), and tells her to stop. She then goes to the dance, where she tries to apologize to everyone. They do not accept her apology at first, but gradually do after learning the book was really Jamie's personal journal and that she never meant for it to be published. Jamie finds Connor just as he is leaving. She asks for his forgiveness and they kiss. They walk back into the dance, where Lenny performs a song ("I Will Be Around") dedicated to Jamie.
After the dance, which was ocean-themed, Jamie invites everyone to eat at her parents' pizza parlor. When Lenny rushes into the kitchen to help cook the pizza, his jacket, which was covered in seaweed from the dance, accidentally lands on some of the pizzas, covering them in seaweed. When the pizza is delivered to the customers, they love it, and Jamie's father finally figures out the secret of how to save their business, ending the film on a happy note.

Tags: cute, entertaining

Review:
Okay, so I just watched this movie on Disney channel and I think it was pretty awesome.
Normally, I don't like Disney channel movies, but this one is the best I've seen.
Though I cannot pin-point exactly when it started happening but slowly Disney Channel movies began taking a turn for the worst and I stopped watching them as I grew older; no doubt they were still entertaining for little kids but one of the things I always enjoyed (and still do) about Disney is that they masterfully appeal to both children and adults, not to mention those inbetween.
The first Disney Channel movie I watched in as long as I can remember was "High School Musical" and my faith in the channel was instantly renewed.
True, she's got three great friends, a cool but strange older brother and loving parents but Jamie wants something more.
Accidentally, Jamie turns in the story of Is to her English teacher and the "novel" ends up being published in the school newspaper because making it all the way to the Bestseller list.
Suddenly Jamie (or rather, Is) finds herself sky-rocketing in popularity; Sawyer and the "Populars" actually want to be friends with her and Marcco is starting to look her way.
Jamie faces the age-old dilemma of choosing between what she thinks she wants and what made her happy before, leaving a good message for all tweens who watch the film.As an 18-year-old, I found certain things about the film bothersome that wouldn't even enter the mind of the tweens and younger children who watch it, so I know I'm simply nitpicking.
The story is cute (based upon the pre-teen novel "How my Private Journal Become a Best Seller -sorry if that's not the exact title) and the characters are warm, though Jamie is slightly obnoxious at times.
Panabaker Sr. plays her character with a comfortable ease, no doubt feeding off the fact that she's used to upstanding her younger sis (though Kay has a promising career in front of her in the children's movie set, if I'm not mistaken) and is enjoyable the entire time.For the intended audience, "Read It and Weep" offers a very important lesson: you don't need to be superhuman to be happy and content.
Being yourself is just as fine as being like Is. While most children's films will force their messages down the throats of the kids watching, "Read It" manages to work the meaning into the story without making it painfully obvious.As with any children's movie, the story is sub duded, written for a child to understand and enjoy (though this is one of the first Disney Channel films I remember where two of the characters actually kiss; there was only a peck on the check in "HSM." The little romance between Jamie and her background best guy friend was more then enough to keep me interested) but still manages to capture the attention of any age group.
Even at the age of 18, I found the movie adorable and entertaining, something I would watch again given the chance.While "Read It and Weep" is no "High School Musical", it is certainly a movie to stand with "HSM" when it comes to turning around the quality of Disney Channel movies.
Read It and Weep is, in my book, one of the finest of all DCOM movies (and lets me honest, Disney has been feeding us a lot of trash recently).
and nick whitaker's singing ("Lenny" was his name, in the movie) blew me away, & made me want to know if he really sings and/or plays in the real world (i would buy his album!).If you're looking for a deep, thought-provoking, lets-ponder-the-universe type of movie, keep looking.
try USA, TNT, or Court TV.But if what you want is a fun, hilarious, quite nearly tear-jerking movie that makes your heart bubble and your sides ache, look no further.You've found it in Read It and Weep.
I thought Read It and Weep was a very good Disney Channel movie.
I even have to say that I think it was almost better than High School Musical because it didn't have all the song interrupting the story line.
Daniel, Is, was a perfect alter ego, the point of the movie was that Is, was supposed to seem like she was helping and was a good, nice person in the beginning but towards the end she showed her other side, her alter ego, and it showed that she wanted everything to be about her.
It was absolutely awesome, it really shows the point of the movie and gives a good message to kids every age.
I was wondering if anyone knows if there was going to be a soundtrack to the new DCOM "Read it and Weep", because I love the song at the end done by Nick Whitaker, AKA Lenny, Jamie's brother.
This was one of the best Disney channel movies that has come out in a long time, and I loved it.
All the cast members did a GREAT job, and I also thought it was wonderful the way they chose to have the Panabaker sisters play Jamie, and "Is".
Wow i really really liked this movie because it is something everyone in High School can relate to.
Even if people don't want to admit it in every High School there is a Jamie\Is.,a Sawyer\Myrna(and he evil followers, and a Conner( he is really cute)oh yeah and a Marco.
Also i really want to know where I could find Jamie's laptop thing I'm getting one for Christmas and I would like to know what kind and where to get it.Overall all the Characters in the movie Rock I love Danielle and Kay there amazing actress and super smart.
Most of the people who did't like the movie is probably one of those people who don't want to admit that there High School is tough and the story was really truthful..
after searching the movie in IMDb i read the plot and thought it is a pretty confusing movie, considering the fact that Disney channel left a lot of important facts about the movie, which would help to get more viewers.
Jamie Bartlett tries to find her way through her freshman year unnoticed but when her private and personal journal gets published into a book by accident things get a little "different".
Read it and Weep is a nice movie that shows that sometimes movies can be just as great as the book!
The book was, of course, better but Disney did a great job molding it into an Original Movie.
This movie was absolutely spectacular with great acting,scene transitions, emotional feelings, tone, and the soundtrack (I loved the last song and the song it played when Jamie was getting ready for the dance-still trying to figure out what it's called :) ).
To tell you the truth, I feel a sense of closeness to this movie because I like to think that I can relate to the one the characters.
the film is really good but i don't like Jayson Donnelly but apart from him it was good and this movie made me think about the way i was treating my friends its such a good film but i really want to know what laptop she has i mean its like so cool the way she can like flip it and then write on it so anyone know what make it is???
Well, I was a little far from that, but still saw a fairly interesting story.Kay Panabaker plays Jamie Bartlett, a girl struggling to survive the hierarchy of high school social life.
Jamie deals with the repressive tyranny of high school life by writing in a personal journal on a tablet computer, using fictional characters loosely based on the people she knows there.
Welch, Jamie's private diary has an alter-ego, a semi-super-heroine named "Is," played by Kay's older sister Danielle...
Through Is, Jamie gains fortune and fame, gets her parents' pizza place some more business, gets to hang out with the school snobs who used to torment her, gets the boy of her dreams, and unfortunately nearly loses her friends, then everything else when she inadvertently reveals the inspiration for the villains in her book on a talk show.
But I suppose if you don't have incidents like these at school functions, they tend to become lame.Some may see this as an excuse to get Danielle and Kay Panabaker to work together on the same project.
Okay, maybe most of the 7 is Jamie, Kay Panabaker, who in this movie seems a lovely creature.
Read it and Weep is a Fatastic movie, You could totally relate to Jamie and what she is going through in high school.Like having a big crush on the popular guy and wanting to be in the popular crowd, but Jamies life before was still great on having great friends who were unique in there own way, but sweet.
First there is Lidsey who is part of the Animals right group, Seacond there is Harmony who is a great artiest, Thirdly there is sweet Connor who is in love with Jamie for a long time,but she does not know this and treats him like a Best friend should be treated.But when Jamie is not looking You could totally see it Connor always looks at her and gives her a cute smile when she looks at him, but her mind is somewhere else because she has a crush on Marco.
But then, today a movie premiered on DisneyChannel UK that renewed my faith in Disney Channel movies.Although the end was somewhat predictable: the rest of the movie had enough to keep anyone interested.To be entirely fair: i only started watching it because i saw the video for Jordan Pruitt's "Outside looking In", and wanted to hear the song again, so watched the movie.
Although this is the vague pattern the plot took, there were enough twists and turns in between that it seemed like this was merely a starting point, and thus really didn't effect it as much as it obviously does to some Disney channel movies Very Very Impressed by Kay and Danielle's acting.
I think the idea that they used these two sisters who are so close in real life was a great starting point, because it meant that Danielle already had a certain grasp over how Kay's mind worked, and thus it was easier for them to know how to influence each other without it seeming forced on screen.I have to say, although i only came for the song, i cannot wait to see it again.
It is just a really poorly laid out movie, with no climax, or point.Character wise a lot of the actors were great.
Jaimie- I thought the actress did a good job portraying her, it was just a dumb character to have to portray Is- gah that was the absolute stupidest character ever, but the actress did a good job Harmony & Lindsay- great actresses Connor- he is cute, good actor Lenny- holy crackers he is amazing, i looove that song he sang, i hate that one song he was listening to though...the outside of the crowd or something Sawyer- over the top, i hate the way she talks, it is annoying...i agree with one commenter about when the seaweed was dumped on her she looked like she was going to scream i'm meltingYes, my comment is kind of scattered and has no order, but hey, it goes with the theme of the movie right?.
I asked some of my Disney-channel-obsessing friends if they thought that the book was better too and they didn't even know the movie was based on a book!
I thought it was great how much the main character Jami, (Kay Panabaker who is one of my favorite actresses) changed over the movie.
I thought it was great how much the main character Jami, (Kay Panabaker who is one of my favorite actresses) changed over the movie.
My favorite scene in the movie was when Jamie finally realizes that Connor was the guy that wrote that article.
Couple that with the fact that the movie's structure sends the wrong message; heroine Jamie Bartlett is perfectly fine with her celebrity status and unconcerned about blowing off her friends until she overreaches and her new world begins to fall apart.
High school sophomore Jamie Bartlett (Kay Panabaker, "Phil of the Future") has three semi geek friends (who would only be geeks in a teen movie), and documents her life in a journal- the names are changed to protect the innocent.
The "Read It and Weep" premise needs a better treatment but the movie should still be enjoyable for many in the middle school crowd; especially if they are crushing on one or more of the actors.
Read it and Weep, is just a pathetic attempt by Disney to grab the same audience that they did with High School Musical.
So, I viewed at my own risk.I noticed the very familiar motifs this movie had, along with other bad Disney and Disney Channel works at the time: cheerleading, loving, and wicked stuff.But wait!!!!!
well on the plus side,there's only two lines left...my favorite part of the movie is at the end,where Jamie kisses conner..that part was the cutest..wellll i hope there's another movie as good as that one soon!!!i love Jason dolley!!<33333333.
i watched it while i was babysitting, and the kids seemed to enjoy it, it was a little cheesy though, but it's a Disney movie so what can you really expect?
anyways, my real question is, does anyone know what kind of computer Jamie uses to write her journal...i thought that it was so cool, and i really would like to know!
Read It and Weep is like every freshman's experience in high school.
but even though it didn't came out the same way i thought it did at the end i found out that was good because then i know this movie is unpredictable.
It is about Jamie Bartlett who turns in her private personal journal at school and becomes a national bestseller Jamie journey into the celebrity world isn't all that easy her friends start getting mad at her and her parents pizza parlor suffers at the end but in the beginning business is GREAT!!
I think the way the people found out that it was them in the book was a little corny but i liked it.
Watch this awesome movie and you'll see what happens between Jamie and Is, and more importantly Jamie and her friend Connor (played by Jason Dolley).
Interesting premise." A girl, Jamie Bartlett (Kay Panabaker), finds a headband that helps her to have an alter ego "Is" (played by Danielle Panabaker, her older sister.) Using the people she meets at school as characters in her journal, "Is" has many fantastical journeys the when the book is published causes Jamie to have instant success.
The thing is, with this movie, it's like watching the other millions about teenage life.
It's simply a movie about a teen girl who writes her journals in book form, and it accidentally gets published.
But after I watched the movie I wanted to read the book, because one of my friends read it and loved it.
I think I liked the book better (which is saying a lot) only because I love books more than the movies anyway.
Kind of saying that no one is who we think they are) In the book, I loved the Jamie actually helped a girl who hadn't always been very nice to her but came to her looking for serious advice.I still loved the movie because I think Kay Panabaker was very good at Jamie.
Looks like they made a good call having an older brother instead.Nick Whitaker didn't do much in High School Musical, but it was his turn to shine on Read It and Weep.
Connor was not the best looking guy for this movie, but I'm sure that they got him for the whole "Underdog finally gets the girl story." One thing that I don't understand is why Marco, which looked to be a Junior, would go out with Jamie, a Freshman.
it's great for kids but it has that edge so that teens can like the movie too.
I loved that they had both Panabaker sisters in this movie, and i thought they both were great in this movie!.
Anyone who loves this movie has never read the book, but once again, my opinion..
In the end, it turns out that Is is not who she seems and Marco is a fake who used Jamie's friend to get by in school.
What i really didn't understand was how Danielle Panabaker was one of the "stars" when all she did was pop up randomly in the movie and spit out a few lines like "don't do it" and "what do you think your doing?" I mean there were so many better actors to give credit to, for example, Jason Dolley (One word.
Lately, Disney Channel Original Movies have been great.
Danielle looked like she was enjoying tormenting her real-life sister's character.The ending was happy, but the plot predictable.
I felt like this movie was going to be great but it ended up being one of my least favorite movies ever shown on Disney!
It's just sad that Disney channel can make awesome TV shows that don't look good until you watch them, but make movies the complete opposite!!!!.
Well why would little kids watch a movie about high school???
I think that people will like this movie.
I think Jamie is a character that a lot of teenagers could probably relate too and that some people may or may not have an alter ego that are like Is (Isabella) and that there is Sawyers and that there is Marcos and that there Conners and that there is Harmonys and there is Lennys and that there is all the other people I forgot out there.