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Directed by | Jim Fall |
Produced by | Stan Rogow |
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Music by | Cliff Eidelman |
Cinematography | Jerzy Zieliński |
Edited by | Margie Goodspeed |
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Distributed by | Buena Vista Pictures |
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94 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $17 million |
Box office | $55.5 million |
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Soundtrack album by Hilary Duff & various artists | ||||
Released | April 22, 2003 | |||
Recorded | 2002–2003 | |||
Genre | Teen pop, pop rock | |||
Length | 47:35 | |||
Label | Walt Disney | |||
Producer | Matthew Gerrard, Bill Padley, Jem Godfrey, Pop Rox, Jill Cunniff, Mark Hammond, Christian Hamm, Robbie Bunchanan, Stephen Lironi, Marco Marinangeli, Chico Bennett, Lee Gillette, Charlie Midnight, Cliff Eidelman | |||
Lizzie McGuire soundtracks chronology | ||||
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Singles from The Lizzie McGuire Movie | ||||
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The Lizzie McGuire Movie is a 2003 American teen comedy film which was released by Walt Disney Pictures on May 2, 2003. The film serves as the finale of the television series Lizzie McGuire. It was the first theatrical film based on a Disney Channel series. The film stars Hilary Duff, Adam Lamberg, Robert Carradine, Hallie Todd and Jake Thomas, and narrates Lizzie's graduation trip to Rome. At its release the film peaked at number two in the domestic box office, behind X2: X-Men United.The Lizzie McGuire Movie was released on August 12, 2003 on VHS and DVD.
The film begins as Lizzie McGuire (Hilary Duff) prepares for her junior-high graduation with one of her two closest friends, David "Gordo" Gordon (Adam Lamberg). The other friend, Miranda, has chosen to skip the graduation ceremony in favor of a trip to Mexico City to visit relatives. During the ceremony, Lizzie trips onstage and accidentally brings the curtain down on her fellow graduates; this causes her to be teased by her ex-best friend, Kate Sanders (), and her younger brother Matt (Jake Thomas). After graduation, Lizzie and her class embark on a trip to Rome, Italy, chaperoned by their future high school principal, the stern Angela Ungermeyer (Alex Borstein). To their dismay, Lizzie and Kate are assigned to the same hotel room.
Their class visits the Trevi Fountain, where Lizzie is approached by an Italian pop star named Paolo (Yani Gellman) who mistakes her for his singing partner, Isabella (also played by Duff). Paolo asks Lizzie to meet him at the fountain the next day, and she feigns illness to sneak away. He explains that he and Isabella are booked for the Italian Music Awards, but she left Italy after their breakup. Paolo tells Lizzie that Isabella lip syncs, and begs her to pose as Isabella for the concert. Although she reluctantly agrees, she begins to enjoy the life of an Italian pop star: designer clothes, dance rehearsals, and adoration from fans.