Starstruck (2010 film)
Encyclopedia
Starstruck is a 2010 Disney Channel Original Movie starring Sterling Knight
and Danielle Campbell
. The movie was filmed in Los Angeles
.
) is a famous pop star and teen idol, whose music is very successful all around the world. Sara Olson (Maggie Castle
) of Kalamazoo, Michigan
is an obsessive fan of Christopher Wilde who seeks to use her family's trip to Hollywood, California to visit her widowed grandmother as an opportunity to meet him (Starstruck) for spring break. Christopher, meanwhile, is on the brink of landing a movie deal and has agreed to remain out of the tabloids in order to prove that he is serious about landing the role.
Once in California, Sara convinces her younger sister Jessica (Danielle Campbell
), to accompany her to a nightclub
where he is rumored to be delivering a surprise performance for his pseudo-girlfriend Alexis Bender (Chelsea Staub). Sara leaves Jessica outside the club to watch the car while she goes inside in a futile attempt to meet Christopher (Shades).
Fed up with waiting, Jessica leaves the car in search for Sara and meets Christopher when he hits her in the head while opening a door. Eager to avoid being caught by the paparazzi
, Christopher takes Jessica to a hospital to be examined, then brings her to his house so that he can make an appearance for the film director (Hero). He then brings Jessica home, and Jessica allows him to stay in her grandmother's garage for the night when he learns the paparazzi have followed him.
The next day Sara brings Jessica to Malibu Beach in the hopes of running into Christopher there. Sara goes off to sit down on the beach, but Jessica recognizes Christopher's disguise and sits down with him. The two are forced to make a quick exit from the beach when the paparazzi arrive; once they get away, Christopher shows Jessica around Los Angeles
(Something About The Sunshine).
While attempting to return to Malibu, they are again spotted by the paparazzi, but manage to elude them by driving off the main road, losing Jessica's grandmother's car in a mud pool quicksand
in the process. While walking back to Malibu, they get into a heated argument, with Jessica calling Christopher's life "fake". Eventually, Christopher confides that he enjoyed hanging out with Jessica because she was not actually asking for anything from him, and they bond again.
When they return to the beach, however, Christopher tells Jessica that no one can know what happened between them that day, telling her that the paparazzi would ruin her life (Hero (Reprise)). Heartbroken and angry, Jessica returns home to Kalamazoo with her family, but not before the paparazzi establish a connection between her and Christopher.
Back in Kalamazoo, Jessica watches Christopher tell a talk show host that he had never met her. Angry with the way the paparazzi forced Christopher to lie and hide himself from the real world, she confronts the paparazzi camped outside her house, and tells them that she "never met [the Christopher that they were all so obsessed with]."
Alexis finds out that Christopher has been with someone who is not famous, and she breaks up with him and becomes friends because she's on a date with another person. Christopher realizes that he is free to pursue Jessica. His best friend Stubby (Brandon Mychal Smith) convinces him that he has to start making his own choices for once (Got To Believe). Christopher then proceeds to fire his parents as his managers and turn down the movie role that made him lie and lose himself in the tabloids.
After Sara's equally Christopher-obsessed friend A.J. (Abbie Cobb) viciously insults Jessica for what she said on television, Sara kicks her out of the house and offers to take Jessica to the school dance with her. Jessica accepts, and Sara helps her get ready for the dance. At the dance, Christopher makes an appearance and apologizes to Jessica through a song (What You Mean To Me).
When the paparazzi appear at the dance, he tells them that he was the one that lied and says he is "crazy" about Jessica. She smiles and accepts his apology, as well him becoming her boyfriend (Party Up).
's highest numbers ever in the time period in Tweens 9-14 (2.3 million), and second-highest on record in Total Viewers (6.0 million) and Kids 6-11 (2.4 million), behind only the August 19, 2007 encore of High School Musical 2.
chart with the sales of 8,257 copies. For the week ending of March 6, 2010, the soundtrack faced a surplus in sales, selling 19,058 copies (up 131 percent), it rose from #98 to #23 on Billboard 200 chart. The soundtrack has sold almost 58,000 copies so far.
Sterling Knight
Sterling Sandmann Knight is an American actor, singer-songwriter, comedian and musician. He is best known for his roles in the 2009 film 17 Again as Alex, in Sonny With a Chance and So Random! as Chad Dylan Cooper, and in the Disney Channel Original Movie Starstruck as Christopher Wilde.-Personal...
and Danielle Campbell
Danielle Campbell
Danielle Campbell is an American actress known for her role as Jessica Olson in the 2010 Disney Channel Original Movie Starstruck and as Simone in the The Disney film Prom.- Life and career :...
. The movie was filmed in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
.
Plot
Christopher Wilde (Sterling KnightSterling Knight
Sterling Sandmann Knight is an American actor, singer-songwriter, comedian and musician. He is best known for his roles in the 2009 film 17 Again as Alex, in Sonny With a Chance and So Random! as Chad Dylan Cooper, and in the Disney Channel Original Movie Starstruck as Christopher Wilde.-Personal...
) is a famous pop star and teen idol, whose music is very successful all around the world. Sara Olson (Maggie Castle
Maggie Castle
Maggie Castle is a Canadian actress, most notable for her appearance in the Disney Channel Original Movie, Starstruck.-Filmography:-External links:...
) of Kalamazoo, Michigan
Kalamazoo, Michigan
The area on which the modern city stands was once home to Native Americans of the Hopewell culture, who migrated into the area sometime before the first millennium. Evidence of their early residency remains in the form of a small mound in downtown's Bronson Park. The Hopewell civilization began to...
is an obsessive fan of Christopher Wilde who seeks to use her family's trip to Hollywood, California to visit her widowed grandmother as an opportunity to meet him (Starstruck) for spring break. Christopher, meanwhile, is on the brink of landing a movie deal and has agreed to remain out of the tabloids in order to prove that he is serious about landing the role.
Once in California, Sara convinces her younger sister Jessica (Danielle Campbell
Danielle Campbell
Danielle Campbell is an American actress known for her role as Jessica Olson in the 2010 Disney Channel Original Movie Starstruck and as Simone in the The Disney film Prom.- Life and career :...
), to accompany her to a nightclub
Nightclub
A nightclub is an entertainment venue which usually operates late into the night...
where he is rumored to be delivering a surprise performance for his pseudo-girlfriend Alexis Bender (Chelsea Staub). Sara leaves Jessica outside the club to watch the car while she goes inside in a futile attempt to meet Christopher (Shades).
Fed up with waiting, Jessica leaves the car in search for Sara and meets Christopher when he hits her in the head while opening a door. Eager to avoid being caught by the paparazzi
Paparazzi
Paparazzi is an Italian term used to refer to photojournalists who specialize in candid photography of celebrities, politicians, and other prominent people...
, Christopher takes Jessica to a hospital to be examined, then brings her to his house so that he can make an appearance for the film director (Hero). He then brings Jessica home, and Jessica allows him to stay in her grandmother's garage for the night when he learns the paparazzi have followed him.
The next day Sara brings Jessica to Malibu Beach in the hopes of running into Christopher there. Sara goes off to sit down on the beach, but Jessica recognizes Christopher's disguise and sits down with him. The two are forced to make a quick exit from the beach when the paparazzi arrive; once they get away, Christopher shows Jessica around Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
(Something About The Sunshine).
While attempting to return to Malibu, they are again spotted by the paparazzi, but manage to elude them by driving off the main road, losing Jessica's grandmother's car in a mud pool quicksand
Quicksand
Quicksand is a colloid hydrogel consisting of fine granular matter , clay, and water.Water circulation underground can focus in an area with the optimal mixture of fine sands and other materials such as clay. The water moves up and then down slowly in a convection-like manner throughout a column...
in the process. While walking back to Malibu, they get into a heated argument, with Jessica calling Christopher's life "fake". Eventually, Christopher confides that he enjoyed hanging out with Jessica because she was not actually asking for anything from him, and they bond again.
When they return to the beach, however, Christopher tells Jessica that no one can know what happened between them that day, telling her that the paparazzi would ruin her life (Hero (Reprise)). Heartbroken and angry, Jessica returns home to Kalamazoo with her family, but not before the paparazzi establish a connection between her and Christopher.
Back in Kalamazoo, Jessica watches Christopher tell a talk show host that he had never met her. Angry with the way the paparazzi forced Christopher to lie and hide himself from the real world, she confronts the paparazzi camped outside her house, and tells them that she "never met [the Christopher that they were all so obsessed with]."
Alexis finds out that Christopher has been with someone who is not famous, and she breaks up with him and becomes friends because she's on a date with another person. Christopher realizes that he is free to pursue Jessica. His best friend Stubby (Brandon Mychal Smith) convinces him that he has to start making his own choices for once (Got To Believe). Christopher then proceeds to fire his parents as his managers and turn down the movie role that made him lie and lose himself in the tabloids.
After Sara's equally Christopher-obsessed friend A.J. (Abbie Cobb) viciously insults Jessica for what she said on television, Sara kicks her out of the house and offers to take Jessica to the school dance with her. Jessica accepts, and Sara helps her get ready for the dance. At the dance, Christopher makes an appearance and apologizes to Jessica through a song (What You Mean To Me).
When the paparazzi appear at the dance, he tells them that he was the one that lied and says he is "crazy" about Jessica. She smiles and accepts his apology, as well him becoming her boyfriend (Party Up).
Cast
- Sterling KnightSterling KnightSterling Sandmann Knight is an American actor, singer-songwriter, comedian and musician. He is best known for his roles in the 2009 film 17 Again as Alex, in Sonny With a Chance and So Random! as Chad Dylan Cooper, and in the Disney Channel Original Movie Starstruck as Christopher Wilde.-Personal...
as Christopher Wilde - Danielle CampbellDanielle CampbellDanielle Campbell is an American actress known for her role as Jessica Olson in the 2010 Disney Channel Original Movie Starstruck and as Simone in the The Disney film Prom.- Life and career :...
as Jessica Olson - Brandon Mychal Smith as Albert Joshua "Stubby" Stubbins
- Chelsea Staub as Alexis Bender
- Maggie CastleMaggie CastleMaggie Castle is a Canadian actress, most notable for her appearance in the Disney Channel Original Movie, Starstruck.-Filmography:-External links:...
as Sara Olson - Matt WinstonMatt WinstonMatthew "Matt" Winston is an American actor, the son of late special effects artist Stan Winston. He attended Yale, is married to Amy Smallman and has two small children....
as Alan Smith - Toni TrucksToni TrucksAntoinette Lindsay "Toni" Trucks is an American stage, film and television actress. She was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan and grew up in Manistee, Michigan. She graduated from the Interlochen Arts Academy and the Musical Theatre Department of the University of Michigan...
as Libby Lam - Beth LittlefordBeth LittlefordElizabeth Anna Halcyon "Beth" Littleford is an American actress, comedienne, and television personality. She is perhaps best known for being one of the original correspondents on the popular Comedy Central satirical news series The Daily Show from 1996 to 2000; she is also known as Tripp's mother...
as Barbara Olson - Dan O'ConnorDan O'ConnorDaniel O'Connor is an Australian television actor and singer.He was one of the top 12 finalists in the 2004 series of Network Ten's reality talent contest programme Australian Idol, aired on Network Ten nationwide in Australia, finishing eleventh...
as Dean Olson - Lauren BowlesLauren BowlesLauren Hannah Bowles is an American actress and a half-sister of Julia Louis-Dreyfus.She has appeared in numerous TV shows including Seinfeld, Arrested Development, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Judging Amy, The New Adventures of Old Christine , Private Practice and many more...
as Sherry Wilde - Ron PearsonRon PearsonRonald "Ron" Samuel Pearson is an American actor, comedian and world record juggler.He started his career as a stand up comic at night clubs, a warm up guy on numerous shows...
as Daniel Wilde - Abbie Cobb as A.J.
Reception
The movie premiere generated 6.0 million viewers, the first to debut on a Sunday night, becoming the channel's most-watched February original movie premiere in Total Viewers, Kids 6-11 and Tweens 9-14. Disney ChannelDisney Channel
Disney Channel is an American basic cable and satellite television network, owned by the Disney-ABC Television Group division of The Walt Disney Company. It is under the direction of Disney-ABC Television Group President Anne Sweeney. The channel's headquarters is located on West Alameda Ave. in...
's highest numbers ever in the time period in Tweens 9-14 (2.3 million), and second-highest on record in Total Viewers (6.0 million) and Kids 6-11 (2.4 million), behind only the August 19, 2007 encore of High School Musical 2.
Track listing
Chart performance
The soundtrack debuted at #98 on Billboard 200Billboard 200
The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...
chart with the sales of 8,257 copies. For the week ending of March 6, 2010, the soundtrack faced a surplus in sales, selling 19,058 copies (up 131 percent), it rose from #98 to #23 on Billboard 200 chart. The soundtrack has sold almost 58,000 copies so far.
Soundtrack charts
| Chart (2010) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Mexican Top Albums Chart AMPROFON Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas is a non-profit organization integrated by multinational and national record companies in Mexico. Established on April 3, 1963, it groups phonographic companies that represent more than 70 percent of the market in Mexico... |
25 |
| Spain Top Albums Chart PROMUSICAE Spanish Music Producers is a trade group representing the Spanish recording industry... |
79 |
| Greek Top Albums Chart IFPI Greece International Federation of the Phonographic Industry Greece or IFPI Greece is the Greek branch of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry and is the official charts provider and recording sales certification body for Greece. Currently two charts are compiled, one for sales of... |
23 |
| Polish Top Albums Chart Poland Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north... |
49 |
| U.S. Billboard 200 Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists... |
23 |
| U.S. Kid Albums Kid Albums Kid Albums is a music chart published weekly by Billboard magazine which ranks the top selling children's music albums in the United States. The chart debuted on the issue dated September 9, 1995. It originally began as, and still is, a 15-position chart... |
1 |
| U.S. Top Soundtracks | 3 |
| U.S. Top Digital Albums | 6 |
| UK Soundtrack Albums Chart | 1 |
Singles charts
| Year | Title | Peak chart positions | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Hot Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday... |
US Digital | US Heat seekers |
CAN Hot Canadian Hot 100 The Canadian Hot 100 is a music singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine which ranks songs in Canada. The chart debuted in the Billboard issue dated June 16, 2007 and was made available for the first time via their online services on June 7, 2007... |
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| 2010 | "Starstruck" | 77 | 43 | 3 | — |
| "Party Up" | 123 | — | 20 | — | |
| "Something About the Sunshine" | 81 | 46 | 5 | 95 | |
| "Hero" | 57 | 29 | 1 | — | |