Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen

Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen 

(based on the novel by Dylan Sheldon)

           Based on the novel of the same name by Dylan Sheldon, the film revolves around Mary Elizabeth Cep as she moves from New York City to a New Jersey suburban town where she attempts to become the new queen bee. Demanding to go by a new name she makes up herself, Lola (Mary Elizabeth) runs into the the school’s popular crowd and their head, Carla Santini and they become instant enemies. They go head to head in dance offs, competing for the lead in the schools play and trying to befriend the band, Sidarthur and the lead vocalist, Stu Wolff.  Known for being a drama queen and a bit of an exaggerator, Lola is an aspiring actress but tends to get caught up in her own lies and ultimately is brought down by her enemy Carla. At school the next day after spending the previous night hanging out with Stu Wolff at the band’s after party, Carla reveals that Lola is a liar and never attended the party. With the success of the school play and Lola perfectly executing her performance as the lead and Stu Wolff showing up at a Friday Night party to give Lola a necklace she left at his house, everyone sees that she wasn’t lying.

                        A story that follows a young girl as she moves across the Hudson River to New Jersey, Mary Elizabeth is not happy about moving to a new town and a new school. Known for being a drama queen and a bit of a liar, this movie focuses on popularity, revenge and fame. Half of the story in this film is about the relationship between Lola and the band Sidarthur. Lola is obsessed their music and the lead vocalist and guitarist Stu Wolff. The main character played by none other than Lindsay Lohan, another tween idle, she makes for a perfect Lola in this adaptation on the book of the same name. In the movie version, Lohan’s character gets to meet the pop star first hand and learns he’s a drunk who doesn’t seem to know his own music. Let down and heartbroken, by the end of the movie the pop star sobers up and comes back to seemingly win back Lohan’s character. Movies, books and television shows that focus on this theme of fame and portraying that fans get to become friends as easily as they make it seem in the movies, this simply not real.