Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen

British actress/director Sara Sugarman makes her U.S. feature debut with the Disney-produced comedy Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, based on the young-adult novel by Dyan Sheldon and adapted for the screen by Gail Parent. The story concerns a popular urban teenager named Mary Elizabeth Cep ...more

If Freaky Friday is the film that gave Lindsay Lohan a warm cinematic welcome, Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen is the hasty follow-up, an unendurable vanity project that's as long as any 90-minute movie out there. Sara Sugarman's film aims for the tone, pastel design, and outrageous sartorial sense of Clueless, but its Disney pedigree, as well as the intrusion of a square Disney morality, prevents it from amassing the necessary irony. Wherever it needs to be brash, it's safe. What's left is ...more