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A movie which Music/HilaryDuff made during her ''Series/LizzieMcGuire'' phase that many believe showed her acting chops. (The scenes where her character dealt with losing her brother were surprisingly believeable.)

Duff plays Terri Fletcher, her usual perky character except with occasional {{Wangst}} due to the fact that her brother Paul died in a freak car accident with Terri as a passenger. Terri is "forced" to disobey her dad because it's her destiny to go to music school in UsefulNotes/LosAngeles, where she finds the usual {{Stock Character}}s:

* Jay Corgan (Creator/OliverJames): Terri's [[EveryoneLooksSexierIfFrench English]] boyfriend
* Denise Gilmore (Creator/DanaDavis): Terri's [[SassyBlackWoman Sassy Black]] roommate
* Engelbert "Kiwi" Wilson (Creator/JohnnyLewis): FunPersonified as a nerd
* Robin Childers (Creator/LaurenCMayhew): the AlphaBitch
* Sloane (Creator/KatDennings): A {{Goth}} DeadpanSnarker
* Mr. Torvald (Creator/JohnCorbett): Terri's CoolTeacher

Yes, it's pretty much just as much a ClicheStorm as it sounds like, complete with a ConcertClimax.
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!!Tropes:

* AdultsAreUseless: Played with. Terri's mother and aunt are shown to be resourceful, caring and quick-thinking when it comes to Terri's secret summer adventure, and her teachers at Bristol-Hillman all seem to know what they're doing and are genuinely invested in their students. However, Terri's father, already rigid and overly traditional, easily falls for their obvious scheme of Terri's secret enrollment in the music program. He only manages to discover the lie when he stumbles upon an invitation to the final concert — not the (likely fairly massive, considering the size of the school) tuition payment, which goes unmentioned.
* AlphaBitch: Robin, who's stuck-up, passive-aggressive, and mean to the other students, often for no real reason.
* AmbiguouslyChristian: The movie as a whole. Terri keeps a cross necklace that belonged to Paul, sings in a church choir, and is seen praying a number of times, but never talks about her faith. In addition, many of the musical numbers can be interpreted to have a religious message, and the movie was originally pitched to be explicitly faith-based.
* AvantGardeMusic:
** Kiwi's specialty, as he does some kind of freestyle electric drumming.
** Also Denise's specialty: She likes to use effect pedals when playing her violin.
* BadGirlSong: Robin's final performance is the sexiest scene in the movie.
* BetaCouple: Kiwi and Sloane become this to Terri and Jay when they get together about two-thirds of the way through the movie.
* BreakTheCutie: Terri already has a fairly tense relationship with her father, who is adamantly against her pursuing her passions in music. After the traumatic death of her brother, she's pressured into going anyway where she struggles to fit in, experiences stage fright and anxiety, is antagonized by Robin, and despite forming a relationship with Jay, has to deal with him possibly cheating on her with Robin.
* ConcertClimax: The events of the movie lead up to everyone's final performances at Bristol-Hillman, which are essentially their auditions to win a scholarship for music study.
* CoversAlwaysLie: Look carefully at the image on this page. Paul is included in the group of music students behind Hilary Duff, but in the film he never goes to the music school or meets any of those characters around him. He's ''dead'' by the time any of them are introduced.
* DestructoNookie: Kiwi and Sloane engage in an intense make-out session that results in basically everything in Kiwi's practice room crashing to the ground.
* TheDeterminator: Denise. She gave street performances and took a part-time job bagging groceries in order to scrape up the tuition for the program. She even [[ImNotHereToMakeFriends refuses to become friends with Terri]] just so she won't be distracted from winning the scholarship--although [[NegativeContinuity this doesn't last]].
* DrunkDriver: On the first night of summer, Paul is killed by a drunk driver, with Terri as a passenger (although the latter's physical injuries are relatively minor). The parents, naturally, have a pretty difficult time recovering from this.
* EatingLunchAlone: On one of her first days at the program, Terri can't find a place to sit and has trouble talking to others.
* EmbarrassingFirstName: Kiwi's real name turns out to be Engelbert.
* FamilyBusiness: Simon runs a restaurant that previously belonged to his father. Terri and Paul both work here, and Simon [[FollowInMyFootsteps expects them to do so indefinitely]].
* FantasyForbiddingFather: Simon will have none of Terri's dreams of pursuing her music.
* FirstKiss: Jay [[AlmostKiss tries to kiss]] Terri on the roof, but she isn't quite ready. She becomes ready about 30 seconds later.
* FishOutOfWater: The basic premise of Terri's storyline at Bristol-Hillman, since most of the students (particularly in the vocals program) have more classical training than her and are significantly less sheltered and more prepared for the L.A. scene.
* HeroicBSOD: Terri becomes fairly despondent after Paul's death, although it fades fairly quickly.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: Aunt Nina, after Terri arrives at her house just in the nick of time to greet her father.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Robin is no saint, and her tantrum over Terri getting her vocal part may have been a little inappropriate, but she's not wrong that Terri was given the part not because she was the best singer or the most well-prepared, but because she "deserves" it for her improvement. Robin's skills are higher and she's shown to have pretty good work ethic, despite being a jerkass — and unlike Terri, she actually shows up to class and doesn't have meltdowns every time she fails to do something right.
* MySisterIsOffLimits: [[GenderFlip Gender-flipped]]: Terri objects to her best friend flirting with her brother.
* OnceMoreWithClarity: Flashbacks to Paul's death are revisited several times.
* OnePersonOnePower: Terri can write lyrics, but is a terrible composer; Jay can write music, but is a terrible lyricist. [[RivalsTeamUp They decide to join forces for a chance at splitting the scholarship.]]
* OutLivingOnesOffspring: Terri and Paul's parents outlive their eldest.
* PerformanceAnxiety: Terri has a few bad cases of this, most notably at an open-mic night at a local club.
* PowerBallad: "Someone's Watching Over Me"
* SacrificialLamb: Paul, who dies within the first act after setting in motion the events of the second and third acts.
* SassyBlackWoman: Denise.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Terri's reaction to the DVD compilation of her singing that Paul sent to Bristol-Hillman. She leaves the room in tears and bursts into her dorm room to begin packing her bags, but calms down after a moment.
* SecondActBreakup: Robin [[ForcefulKiss plants a kiss]] on Jay seconds before Terri enters the room. Terri [[MistakenForCheating immediately runs off]], with Jay following after her in an attempt to [[ICanExplain explain]] [[NotWhatItLooksLike what really happened]]. This is immediately followed by a SadTimesMontage alternating between Terri and Jay.
* SmallTownBoredom: Terri and Paul are both eager to get out of their hometown of Flagstaff, Arizona. Their father is [[PleaseDontLeaveMe none too pleased at the prospect]].
* StereoFibbing: As far as Simon knows, Terri is just visiting Aunt Nina in Palm Desert, [[BlatantLies when Terri is really in L.A.]] When Simon calls to find out what they're up to one evening, Nina sets up a three-way phone conversation in which she and Terri switch between "eating dinner" and "watching TV."
* TraumaButton: Spotlights cause Terri to flash back to the lights of the car that killed Paul.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Terri becomes this when she procures tickets to Paul's favourite band and [[SneakyDeparture sneaks him out]] for the concert, despite his being [[YouAreGrounded grounded]], which ultimately leads to his death. The rest of the movie deals with Terri's guilt over this act.
* VocalDissonance: There are a few scenes in which Hilary Duff is very obviously singing with a much more sophisticated voice than her own.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: The crux of Mr. Torvald's pep talk to Terri toward the end of the movie.
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