Confessions Of A Teenage Drama Queen (2004)
When the teenager Mary Elizabeth Steppe, a.k.a. Lola, moves with her mother and two younger twin sisters from New York to the suburb of Dellwood, New Jersey, she has the feeling that her cultural and entertaining world ended. While in school, the displaced Lola becomes close friend of the unpopular Ella, who is also a great fan of the her favorite rock band Sidarthur. However, the most popular girl in the school, Carla Santini, disputes the lead role in an adaptation of Pygmalion with Lola and also the leadership of their mates. When the last concert of Sidarthur is sold-out, Lola plans with Ella to travel to New York and buy the tickets from scalpers. However, the girls get into trouble while helping the lead singer and Lola's idol Stu Wolf, changing their lives forever.
"So much drama, so little time."
Ella: I'm getting really scared being out here all alone, Lola.
Lola: We're not alone. We're with an adult.
Ella: Aside from the fact that he isn't actually with us, he isn't actually an adult. He's a rock star.
Birchmount Collegiate, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Burlington, Ontario, Canada
(House)
Clifton, New Jersey, USA
(delawanna train station)
Erin Mills Town Centre, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
King City Secondary School, King City, Ontario, Canada
Montr?al, Qu?bec, Canada
New York City, New York, USA
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The role of Lola Stepp was first offered to Hilary Duff.
The mall scene, where Lola and her friend are handing out flyers/paper was shot in Erin Mills Town Center, Mississauga, Ontario.
Lindsay Lohan's only theatrical Disney movie that was not inspired by a previously released Disney movie. The Parent Trap (1998) and Freaky Friday (2003) were remakes, and Herbie Fully Loaded (2005) was both a reboot and a sequel.
Megan Fox's only Disney movie and second movie.
The dog belonging to Lola's father is named Negus after the movie's production company, Negus Productions.
The outfit Ella wears to the concert is reminiscent of the iconic flapper girl image of the Roaring Twenties. Alison Pill (Ella) went onto play Zelda Fitzgerald, who was an inspiration for much of the 1920s fashion, in Midnight in Paris (2011).
Continuity
In the scene where Lola is first riding her bike to school she is going down the street. She looks up, but is till going straight down the street yet she crashes into a tree beyond the sidewalk.
When the family is at the dinner table, one of the twins is sitting across from her twin, with Lola at the head of the table. In the next shot one twin is missing, and the mother is in the spot where the twin was. In the next shot the mother has walked away from the table and twin one is back in her seat.
Toward the movie's ending when Lola is in her first costume as Eliza and is talking to her mother before going on stage her cartilage earring disappears and reappears between shots.
In the scene where the girls are running through the hallway, Lola knocks the stack of videotapes behind her as clearly seen in the following shot. However, in the next shot, there are tapes ahead of her and she trips on one.
Lola's necklace changes position through the whole movie. From being high to her neck to going down to her chest.
Factual errors
Lola says she took to two trains a bus to get to school in New York and it cost $1.50. Given the implied distance she traveled she would have been issued a full ride Metrocard for this journey by DoE for travel beyond 1.5 miles.
Miscellaneous
The gear shift is obviously in the "park" position as the family leaves New York for the suburbs.
Errors in geography
Set in New York City, yet the concert theatre the band plays at clearly says "Elgin Theatre" which is in Toronto where the film was shot.
In negotiating the terms of the concert visit Lola says "Ella's parents will pick us up at Grand Central Station". A train from New Jersey to Manhattan would arrive at Penn Station. Grand Central handles trains from the north (Hudson valley and Connecticut).
While in jail, Ella states they are 1,000 miles away from home. In actuality, the farthest point in New Jersey is under 150 miles from Manhattan.
When Lola and Ella go to buy Sid Arthur tickets at the mall and they are sold out, the dates of other concerts are written in Canadian and international format (day/month) instead of American format (month/day). Though the mall would have been in New Jersey, the scene was actually shot in Ontario