Undiscovered (PG-13)
Incoherent story of young artists.
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- Studio: Lions Gate Entertainment, Lions Gate Entertainment
- Directed By: Meiert Avis
- Cast: Pell James, Steven Strait
- Running Time: 97 minutes
- Release Date: 08/26/2005
- Video/DVD Release Date: 12/27/2005
- Genre: Drama
- MPAA Rating: PG-13
- MPAA Explanation: sexual material including dialogue, partial nudity, language, and drug content
Parents need to know
Families can talk about the film's portrayals of manipulative show biz people. Even the heroine -- a model and wannabe actor -- seems unable to be honest with herself, her friends, and her boyfriend. Among the movie's quite unanswerable questions: why does Brier set up Luke to be a rock star when she so dislikes rock stars? Why does Clea go along with this scheme, when she knows Luke doesn't want that life? How does the movie set up the young characters as naïve and older characters as cynical and opportunistic?
Message
Social Behavior:
Everyone is deceptive, selfish, and blissful as such.
Consumerism:
Music industry is a theme/setting; magazines, websites, and other forms of advertising appear frequently.
Drugs/Alcohol/Tobacco:
Characters smoke, drink, and do drugs, including the prominent discussion and downing of a horse tranquilizer in a bar.
Violence
Mild fisticuffs.
Sex
Characters kiss, cuddle, and yearn in close-up. The rock star phenom appears shirtless and sweaty on stage. Women wear revealing clothing, Euan appears in bed, shirtless, with two barely clad women.
Language
Obnoxious more than consistently offensive.
Common Sense says
What's the story?
Reviewed by Cynthia Fuchs
It's love at first sight when musician Luke Falcon (Steven Strait) and aspiring model Brier (Pell James) meet briefly on the subway. But they go their separate ways -- she to pursue modeling and he to the West coast. When Brier turns her attention to acting and moves to LA, she ends up meeting Luke again. She and her best friend, Clea (Ashlee Simpson), decide to help Luke's music career.
Is it any good?
UNDISCOVERED is a small, often incoherent saga of aspiring young artists in L.A. While the camera cannot stay still (maybe recalling director Meiert Avis' music video roots, maybe just affecting "art"), the plot can't get going. The romance pokes along by way of deception, selfishness, revenge, and disappointment. Brier and Clea, with the help of Carrie and a faux-Brazilian model named Josie (Shannyn Sossamon), connive to make Luke seem popular.
Luke falls into the rock star mode pretty easily for someone who's supposed to be all into his independence and integrity. (Then again, he's hardly "about" the music; his mostly black band is reduced to background, one member speaking once: "One, two, three.") Brier despises the effects of celebrity, so her decision to send her true love forth on this path seems odd; as she watches him turn famous, she's partly drawn to him and partly repulsed. He's her very own Frankenstein monster, drinking and having sex with Josie because he feels rejected by Brier. In turn, she blames Luke for being weak.
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