Pixel Perfect
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| Screenplay by | Neal Shusterman |
| Story by |
Alan Sacks Neal Shusterman |
| Directed by | Mark A.Z. Dippé |
| Starring |
Ricky Ullman Leah Pipes Spencer Redford |
| Theme music composer | Phil Marshall (musician) |
| Original language(s) | English |
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| Producer(s) | Don Schain |
| Running time | 85 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Gaumont Film Company |
| Distributor | Disney-ABC Domestic Television |
| Budget | $4 Million |
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| Original network | Disney Channel |
| Original release | January 16, 2004 (USA) January 21, 2004 (UK) |
Pixel Perfect is a 2004 Disney Channel Original Movie. It aired in the United States on January 16, 2004 and in the United Kingdom on January 21, 2004.
Pixel Perfect begins with teenager Roscoe trying to help his best friend, Samantha. Sam's band, the Zetta Bytes, is struggling. Despite her vocal talents and guitar skills, Sam is told that she needs to dance in order for their band to succeed. Roscoe uses his father's computerized holographic equipment to create a sentient, autonomous humanoid hologram called Loretta to dance for the band.
At their first gig, a school dance, Loretta is a big hit with the audience. The entire band loves her, except for Sam, who is jealous of Loretta's "perfection," and suspects that Roscoe likes Loretta more than her. Despite her feelings, Sam agrees to take care of Loretta to keep Roscoe's father from finding and deleting her. With Loretta in the band, the Zetta Bytes manage to land a gig at a club that had previously turned them away. Their second performance goes well - until the very end when Loretta starts to lose her pattern, and the crowd realizes she is a hologram. After a moment of silence, the crowd erupts in applause. The novelty of a holographic rockstar catapults the Zetta Bytes to fame. Sam becomes jealous of the attention Loretta is receiving while Loretta struggles with her identity as a mere software computer program and hologram. She wants to experience life as a real human being in an actual physical body of living flesh and blood. After a major argument with Roscoe, Loretta escapes into the internet, and emails herself to Sam's computer. Roscoe becomes frantic, and rushes to Sam's place for help.
During which, Sam confronts him on his real feelings for Loretta. She believes he may have romantic feelings for her and probably so, because she's "perfect." But Sam reminds him that Loretta is not real. When Roscoe rebuffs her statement asking "What is real, anyway?" It's then that Sam states that she's real, and she's always been there. Sam tries to make it more obvious that she has romantic feelings for Roscoe by kissing him. But when he doesn't respond to her affection, Sam's left hurt. She gives him Loretta, and leaves. Later on, Roscoe realizes that Sam was right, and soon realizes he may return his feelings for Sam.
Roscoe and his father attend a meeting with Harshtone Records, the company that is recording The Zetta Bytes's first CD. Harshtone informs Roscoe that they have decided to team up with Skygraph, his father's company, and make more holographic rock stars. But when Roscoe realizes that they are planning to rob the holograms of their individuality, he argues that Loretta is not just a computer program, but a sentient, autonomous person with a mind and will of her own, sensations, thoughts, personality, feelings, and emotions. Despite Roscoe's father siding with him, Loretta is taken from them. At the last moment Daryl Fibbs, an employee at Harshtone, has a change of heart and decides that every performer, including holograms like Loretta, should have a choice. He gives her the option to stay at Harshtone or escape into the internet. Loretta goes into the internet a second time, and Fibbs quits Harshtone.
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