Stuck in the Suburbs
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| Stuck in the Suburbs | |
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 Stuck in the Suburbs promotional advertisement |
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| Directed by | Savage Steve Holland |
| Produced by | Richard D. Arredondo Richard Fischoff |
| Written by | Wendy Engelberg Amy Engelberg Daniel Berendsen |
| Starring | Danielle Panabaker Brenda Song Taran Killam |
| Music by | Jeff Vincent |
| Distributed by | Disney Channel Original Movie |
| Release date(s) | July 16, 2004 |
| Running time | 82 min. |
| Language | English |
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Stuck in the Suburbs is a Disney Channel Original Movie (DCOM) released on July 16, 2004, starring Danielle Panabaker as Brittany Aarons and Brenda Song as Natasha Kwon-Schwartz. Brittany, a regular high school student in the suburbs, accidentally exchanges cell phones with pop singer Jordan Cahill. This was one of the first made-for-tv movies by Disney which was also accompanied by its own soundtrack.
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[edit] Plot
Brittany Aarons (Danielle Panabaker) is one of many 14-year-old girls who has a crush on popular singer and boy-toy Jordan Cahill (Taran Killam). However, she is bored of living a suburban existence and seeks a little something more. She meets the new girl Natasha Kwon-Schwartz (Brenda Song), who looks like an Upper East-sider from the City, except she's not. Upon Natasha's arrival, Brittany slowly starts to make a move towards breaking out of her conformist routines, but not before becoming an extra in Jordan's latest music video, and inviting Natasha to join her and her fangirl friends. When Jordan and his team bump into Brittany and Natasha after a show, they all collect their stuff, and get each other's cell phones. Once Brittany gets a hold of Jordan's much more sophisticated phone, Natasha convinces Brittany that it'd be fun to mess with his career. They prank call his hair stylist, get her to cut off all his hair, and have someone serve him raisins, to which he is allergic. Along the way they find that Jordan's life is not the life he chooses, but rather the one his record company wants for him. They won't even allow him to use the original lyrics he wants for his own songs. At first he's terrified that his personal barber gave him a major haircut, but eventually accepts it as the first step towards a break from his manufactured image.
[edit] Cast
- Danielle Panabaker - Brittany Aarons
- Brenda Song - Natasha Kwon-Schwartz
- Taran Killam - Jordan Cahill
- Amanda Shaw - Kaylee Holland
- CiCi Hedgpeth - Ashley Simon
- Jennie Garland - Olivia Hooper
- Ryan Belleville - Eddie
- Todd Stashwick - Len
- Kirsten Nelson - Susan Aarons
- Corri English - Jessie Aarons
- Patrick Stogner - Cooper Aarons
- Lara Grice - Soccer Mom (Olivia's Mom)
- Ric Reitz - David Aarons
- Drew Seeley - Desk Clerk at Hotel
[edit] Soundtrack
- "A Whatever Life" — Haylie Duff
- "Good Life" — Jesse McCartney
- "Stuck" — Stacie Orrico
- "Over It" — Anneliese van der Pol
- "Stuck in the Middle With You" — Stealer's Wheel
- "Take Me Back Home" — Greg Raposo
- "More Than Me" (Acoustic) — Jordan Cahill / Taran Killam
- "On Top Of The World" — Jordan Cahill / Taran Killam
- "Make A Wish" — Jordan Cahill / Taran Killam
- "More Than Me" (Pop Version) — Jordan Cahill / Taran Killam
[edit] Location
- The film was mostly shot on several locations throughout the Greater New Orleans Area, in particular St. Tammany Parish. The school scenes were filmed in the atrium, front steps, and the courtyard of Ben Franklin High School in the Lakefront area. Lockers were temporarily moved into the atrium to give the appearance of a hallway, and door frames were painted with temporary red paint. The music video for "Make A Wish" was filmed in City Park in New Orleans. The other video is filmed at the Piaza d'Italia in Downtown New Orleans. The "Old House" from the film is actually the Otis House from Fairview-Riverside State Park in Madisonville on the Northshore. The house was aged for production, but restored to its actual appearance at the end of the film. The Otis House was originally built in the 1880s, and it actually is located near the expanding suburb of Mandeville.
- When Brittany is riding through the suburbs on her bike she is actually riding through Lafreniere Park.
[edit] Trivia
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- When Brittany's brother asks what Jordan's birthday is to break the password to his cellphone, Brittany tells him it is 4/1/82. This is Taran Killam's actual birthday.
- That's So Raven co-star Anneliese van der Pol sings a song ("Over It") and has a video for this movie.
- Jesse McCartney sings "Good Life" for the movie. He's also in Summerland with Danielle Panabaker's younger sister, Kay Panabaker (and for a time dated Danielle, who guest starred on several occasions).
- In the movie Brittany's phone was a Nokia 3595 with a pink cover, and Jordan's phone was a Palm Treo 600.
[edit] Goofs
- During the Make A Wish video, at the end the lyrics say "Close your eyes, make a wish. Just believe. You can't miss". But Jordan says "Close your eyes, make a wish. Just believe. You can't kiss miss".
- In the scene where Jordan Cahill sings on the porch of the old house, he is holding the guitar but he is not actually playing it (He's not really fingering on the fingerboard).
- When Brittany's brother hacks Jordan's cell phone, the cell phone is off.
- On the poster for the movie it says, "An Disney Channel Original Movie".
- There's a quick shot of Jordan's producer using his cell phone and headset, and you can see there's a crack in the screen of his cell phone.
- When Brittany's mom takes away her bowl of ice cream and hands it to her father, the whipped cream tilts sideways revealing the cardboard it's resting on.
- In the scene where Len and Eddie, and Len's henchmen get out of the van they are in, you can see the camera crew [including soundman] filming in the reflection of it.
- In the scene where Natasha and Brittany are talking to Eddie and ask him to sing Penelope, they don't hang up before screaming Gwen Stefani's name.
- When Eddie calls Jordan's phone from Brittany's phone, her name show up on the display. But the only way that would happen is if her number was stored in his phone.
- When the girls dance during the premiere of Jordan's music video at the beginning of the movie, they fall over the couch and sit on the overturned couch for a couple of seconds. While they sit there you can see the bottom of their soccer spikes. Supposedly the girls just came from soccer practice, yet their spikes have no grass stains, no mud between the spikes, and look like they are brand new.
[edit] External links
- Stuck in the Suburbs on Disney website
- Soundtrack by Walt Disney Records
- Stuck in the Suburbs at the Internet Movie Database
- Stuck in the Suburbs at TV.com
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