Read It and Weep

Infobox Film
name = Read It And Weep!


caption = DVD Cover
director = Paul Hoen
producer = Don Schain
eproducer = Sheri Singer
aproducer =
writer = Patrick J. Clifton
Beth Rigazio
Julia DeVillers
starring = Kay Panabaker
Danielle Panabaker
Allison Scagliotti
Jason Dolley
music =
cinematography = Gordon Lonsdale
editing = Louis F. Cioffi
distributor = Disney Channel
released = July 21 2006
runtime = 1hr. and 24 minutes
rating =
country = USA
awards =
language = English
budget =
amg_id =
imdb_id = 0494716

"Read It And Weep" (previously titled "How My Private, Personal Journal Became A Bestseller") is a Disney Channel Original Movie which premiered on July 21 2006. It is based on the novel by Julia DeVillers. Sisters Kay and Danielle Panabaker star as Jamie Bartlett and her alter ego Isabella (Iz or Is), respectively. Both sisters have both starred in previous Disney Channel movies: Kay in "Life is Ruff", and Danielle in "Stuck in the Suburbs". 1.6 million viewers tuned into this episode in the U.L placing it 1st in its timeslot.

Plot

"Read It And Weep" begins with Jamie Bartlett, who has three best friends named Connor, Lindsay and Harmony, and an enemy named Sawyer Sullivan. She also owns a tablet PC which she writes in every day. In that journal she writes about herself as "IS", a popular girl with a personality opposite of her own, and writes about all the kids at school. After she accidentally turns the journal in for an English assignment, it wins a writing contest. Jamie 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 favouring her new fame and success over her friends. She gains success and popularity, until she reveals on a television interview that the antagonist of her novel is based on Sawyer, the ex-girlfriend of her crush. As the rest of her high school discovers that the book was based on Jamie's more negative feelings towards the school, she wishes to restore her relationships but her friends are unwilling to trust her again. Finally, at the school dance she apologizes in front of everybody and all is forgiven. Jamie then asks Connor for forgiveness. They share a kiss and Jamie gets rid of "IS" once and for all.

Cast

Nick Whitaker performs the song I Will Be Around at the Deep Blue Sea Dance.

Release dates

Note: The movie was released on DVD January 16, 2007.

The book and movie

The movie was based on the book "How My Private, Personal Journal Became A Bestseller". Julia DeVillers, the author of the book from which the movie was made, has a cameo in a pizza parlor scene. There are, however, a number of differences between the book and the film. They are:
*In the movie, Sawyer has short brown hair, in the book, Sawyer has long blonde hair.
*In the book, Harmony lives part-time in the city, and part-time in the suburbs. In the movie she lives in one place.
*In the movie, Lindsay has dark skin, black hair, and brown eyes. In the book, she has light skin, red hair, and blue eyes.
*In the book, Lindsay is constantly upset with her weight, yet in the movie this is never mentioned.
*In the book, Harmony has dark skin, black hair, and brown eyes. In the movie, she has light skin, green eyes, and red hair.
*In the book, Connor has brown hair, yet in the movie he has blond.
*In the book, Connor is the new kid, yet in the movie he is already friends with Jamie in the beginning.
*In the movie, Jamie uses her laptop to write her book. In the book, she gets her laptop after she writes the book.
*In the book, Jamie didn't kiss Connor. In the movie, Jamie kisses Connor.
*In the book, Jamie has a sister named Allie, but in the movie she has a brother named Lenny. In the scene when Jamie was deleting friends off her list of online friends, one of their names was Allie.
*In the book, Jamie calls her story "IS", but in the movie, she calls it, "IS Saves the World".
*In the movie, there was a school dance. In the book, there wasn't any dance.
*In the movie Jamie talks to "IS". In the book, she doesn't.

Location

"Read It and Weep" was filmed at Murray High School & Downtown Salt Lake City. Murray High School was also the set of: "Take Down" (1978), the auditorium scene of "High School Musical" (2006), "Minutemen" (2008) [ [http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695206864,00.html Deseret Morning News | Disney moment for Murray, Highland ] ] and "" (2008) [ [http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=148&sid=3657268 ksl.com - ‘High School Musical' reality show wraps up filming ] ] .

References

External links

*" [http://www.ultimatedisney.com/readitandweep.html Read It and Weep] " at Ultimate Disney
*" [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0494716 Read It and Weep] " at Internet Movie Database

Goofs

* The article in the school newspaper Connor writes titled "Three Cheers for Jamie Bartlett" is visible in the paper in a scene long before Connor writes the article.
*Before Jamie runs out after Connor, the floor is covered in protest flyers and seaweed. The whale is also hanging by its rear cables. After Jamie and Connor return to the dancefloor, the whale is back in its original position and the floor is clean.