![]() ![]() Terri meets a nice kid named Jay ( Oliver James), who has a British accent and is very encouraging and warm and brings her out of herself and encourages her to sing with joy and writes a song with her and says he doesn't date the bitchy Robin (Lauren C. For that matter, earlier in the movie her brother tells her she's a "Stepford Daughter," but he encourages her to go to the camp, direly predicting: "If you don't, you're going to end up doing 'Cats' at the Y when you're 40." ![]() Sizing up Terri's wardrobe and her smile, she tells her: "You're like some kind of retro Brady Buncher." I hate it when a movie contains its own review. (If they soften right away, there goes the plot.) Her new roommate is Denise ( Dana Davis), who plans to work hard for a scholarship, and resents Terri as a distraction. Aunt Nina is one of those artists who does alarming things up on step-ladders with an acetylene torch.Īll the kids are snobs at the camp, primarily so they can soften later. Her mother ( Rita Wilson) conspires with her artistic Aunt Nina ( Rebecca De Mornay) to sneak her off to the camp while dad thinks she's visiting Nina in Palm Desert. Her dad ( David Keith) is against it: Terrible things can happen to a young woman in Los Angeles. ![]() She plays Terri Fletcher, a young music student, who after a personal tragedy wants to begin again by attending a three-week camp for gifted young musicians in Los Angeles. She smiles in "Raise Your Voice," a carefully constructed new movie that doesn't make her a contemporary teenager so much as surround her with them. The rest of the time she smiles and smiles, and I love gazing upon her smile, although a still photo would achieve the same effect and be a time-saver. Hilary Duff has a great smile, and she proves it by smiling pretty much all the way through "Raise Your Voice," except when there's a death in the family, or her roommate Denise says something mean to her, or she sees her kind-of boyfriend Jay kissing Robin after he said he'd broken up with her, or when her dad says she can't go to music camp. ![]()
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