Read It And Weep!
DVD cover
Directed by	Paul Hoen
Produced by	Don Schain
Written by	Patrick J. Clifton Beth Rigazio Julia DeVillers
Starring	Kay Panabaker Danielle Panabaker Allison Scagliotti Jason Dolley
Cinematography	Gordon Lonsdale
Editing by	Louis F. Cioffi
Distributed by	Disney Channel
Release date(s)	July 21, 2006
Running time	84 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

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 starred in previous Disney Channel movies: Kay in Life Is Ruff, and Danielle in Stuck in the Suburbs.

[edit] Plot

Read It And Weep begins with Jamieson (Jamie) Bartlett (Kay Panabaker), who has three best friends named Connor (Jason Dolley), Lindsay and Harmony (Alexandra Krosney), and an enemy named Sawyer Sullivan, whose boyfriend 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. Is was only a figure of Jamie's imagination. Is says in the movie. She bases the character loosely upon her, and uses her alter-world to write her feelings about her fellow classmates, friends, and her life.

As an English assignment, she has to write an essay of her choice, but when her printer dies, she means to sends it to Lindsay but sends her journal by mistake. After Lindsay turns the journal in for the English assignment, it wins a writing contest. Jamie's book then starts to attract a lot of publicity and eventually becomes a bestseller. She appears at many book signings, reality TV shows and is often interviewed. 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 favoring 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.

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. Her friends begin to reject and avoid her, and that is shown when she logs onto a chat room, and one-by-one each person who was originally logged on, logged off as soon as they saw her, except for her friend Connor. When she asks him if he hates her, he responds "I only hate what you've become", and promptly logs off. Jamie then realizes her mistakes, and also discovers some hidden feelings for Connor. Connor writes a positive letter to the editor. When it appears in the school paper the next day, she thinks it was Marco, not Connor.

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 discovers that her parents' pizza parlor business was dwindling, and they might have to face closing down the shop because of Jamie's unpopularity, so Jamie feels guilty.

When she gets ready for the prom, Jamie confronts Is, a figment of her imagination who tries to make Jamie like she is and acts like the main antagonist of the movie (next to Sawyer/Myrna), and demands her to stop. She then proceeds to go to the prom, where she tries to apologize to everyone. They do not accept her apology at first, but gradually they do, and Jamie finds Connor just as he is leaving. She begs his forgiveness, and he finally gives in, and they kiss. They walk back into the prom, where Lenny performs.

After the prom, which was ocean-themed, Jamie invites everyone to eat at her parents' pizza parlor. When Lenny rushes into the kitchens to help cook the pizza, his jacket, which was covered in seaweed from the prom, accidentally lands on some of the pizzas, covering them in seaweed. They do not know this, but when the pizza is delivered to the customers, they discover it is delicious, and Jamie's father finally figures out the secret of how to save their business, ending the film on a happy note.

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[edit] The book and movie

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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.

[edit] Differences from the book

• In the book, Sawyer has long blonde hair, in the movie, she has short brown hair and blue eyes.
• 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, but in the movie he has blond.
• In the book, Connor is the new kid, but in the movie he is already friends with Jamie in the beginning.
• In the book, Jamie didn't kiss Connor.
• In the book, Jamie tries to be like IS because IS always does the right thing, and Jamie doesn't, but in the movie IS is the opposite and Jamie tries to be much different than her.
• 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".
• There is no dance in the book.
• Jamie doesn't talk to IS in the book.

[edit] 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)^[1] and High School Musical: Get in the Picture (2008)^[2].

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[edit] External links

• Read It and Weep at Ultimate Disney
• Read It and Weep at the Internet Movie Database