Raise Your Voice (2004)

Drama / Musical / Romance

1 hr. 44 min.

Hilary Duff is a small-town girl who goes to school in the big city after the sudden death of her brother in a car accident. One critic has called it "heartfelt," which may be code for "sappy."

Rated PG for thematic elements and language

Directed by: Sean McNamara

Starring: Hilary Duff, John Corbett, Ashlee Simpson, Jason Ritter, Rita Wilson

Theatrical Release Date: 10/08/2004

Release Type: Wide

U.S. Box Office: $10,411,980

Video/DVD Release Date: 2/15/2005

Distributor: New Line Cinema

Country: USA

Language: English

Offsite: IMDB | Official Site

CRITIC	RATING	QUOTE
Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert	3	...her dad was right about one thing. Something terrible did happen to her in Los Angeles. She made this movie.
Chicago Tribune Robert K. Elder	4	Yes, parents surely want a family film they can take their young daughters to--but not one so bland and colorless.
E!	6	...while it's hard to totally diss the pure and inspiring plot (and those cool outfits!), Voice is nothing to sing about.
filmcritic.com Sean O'Connell	2	To dismiss Voice as a tedious after-school special unintentionally insults such riveting features as Stoned with Scott Baio and The Pinballs with Kristy McNichol.
New York Post Lou Lumenick	3	...Duff's version of Glitter, which also lifts shamelessly from Fame and a dozen other performing-arts movies, to deadening effect.
TV Guide Angel Cohn	3	Pop singer/actress Hilary Duff starring in a movie about an aspiring singer: It seems like a no-brainer, but she hits all the wrong notes in this light drama.
Reel Kim Morgan	3	Raise your voice? Maybe while you run screaming from the theater.
Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman	4	I enjoyed the musical numbers in Raise Your Voice, including Duff's, but the rest of the film is too synthetic to even be called cheese.
New York Times Anita Gates	6	If you're going to throw a lot of good-looking teenagers together and have them make music as a group, better this than the beach party movies of yesteryear.
Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas	4	The filmmakers make a big show of striving for sincerity and substance, but they so load the dice that their movie is heavy-going from start to finish.
People Leah Rozen	5
LA Weekly Chuck Wilson	3
Onion AV Club Scott Tobias	1	...dreadful...
Premiere Angel Cohn	4	Preteen girls everywhere obsessed with the reigning tween queen Hilary Duff should pocket their hard earned babysitting cash and allowances instead of shelling out the money to see this flick which will likely leave them feeling short-changed.

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ALL AVERAGE CRITIC RATING	3.6
AVERAGE USER RATING (0 ratings)	-