Kailansorac Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

zardoz-13 "Far From Home" director Meiert Avis' romantic musical comedy "Undiscovered" is a sweetly sentimental fairy tale saga about the obstacle course that young lovers run in their relationships. Lurking within this deceptively lightweight movie is a message about fame versus creativity. People sell their souls for fame, but fame is only the foam, whereas creativity is the bedrock for everything in life. A confused but sympathetic model suffering from love trouble with her cheating rock star boyfriend and an aspiring songwriter collide entirely by accident when a New York subway train disgorges its passengers. She catches one of his gloves on the way onto the train while he stands transfixed on the platform watching her slip away on the departing train. Later, each winds up moving to glittering Los Angeles. He wants to break into the musical scene, while she wants to get into acting. Ostensibly, newcomer John Galt has penned a screenplay that consists of 98 minutes of PG-13 rated soap opera galore not only about the perils of love but also the mercurial music business. Initially, I thought "Undiscovered" little more than a potboiler about twentysomething love (which it is to a certain degree) until I caught it the second time around and discovered its deeper 'undiscovered' values. The cast is first-rate with Pell James and Steven Strait making this love story entirely tolerable because of their sincere, soft-spoken performance. Avis displays the right balance that keeps "Undiscovered" from curdling into syrupy sap.Slinky model Brier Tucket (Pell James of "Broken Flowers") is boarding the subway when she runs into two brothers, the younger one Luke Falcon (Steven Strait of "Covenant") and the older one Euan Falcon (Kip Pardue of "Driven") and she accidentally snags Luke's glove as they pass. Immediately, Luke realizes that he has allowed the best thing in his life get away from him. Luke gushes to Euan about her as the prettiest girl that he has ever seen, while Euan complains about his brother losing the gloves that he borrowed from him. Brier ponders if it was destiny that Luke and she met or was it simply random chance. She carries on endless conversations with Carrie (Carrie Fisher of "Star Wars") on the phone about Luke. Eventually, a couple of years afterward, Brier decides that she would like to take a stab at acting. Out in Los Angeles, Brier meets up with another aspiring actress/singer Clea (Ashlee Simpson) in her acting class who treats Luke like a brother and sometimes accompanies him on a song. Luke barely makes ends meet for a while, working at the local humane shelter and later at a yogurt shop. He enjoys himself the most singing and playing music at nightspots around L.A. and has a trained bulldog that rides a skateboard. Actually, the bulldog is the funniest things about this movie.The screenplay is all about girl meets guy, girl wants guy, but girl has been screwed over by a previous guy and she cannot handle getting screwed over again. Mind you, Luke is obsessed by Brier. Brier and her rock star boyfriend Mick (Stephen Moyer of HBO's "True Blood") conclude their long-distance love affair because he loves to cheat on her. Sadly, Brier is the worst for the wear and tear on the soul that she has been exposed to by the horny British rocker. When she meets Luke, she likes him, but she fears their fling will turn into another bittersweet bust. She need not have worried because Luke really doesn't want to be a rocker. Luke reminds Brier constantly about his aspirations and informs her at one point that he is a one-gal guy. Mick, however, has made Brier skeptical about men in general. Nevertheless, Luke intrigues her enough so that well-intentioned Clea and she, with Carrie's help, bolster his career. They turn Luke into him a sudden, overnight sensation that brings out the worst in the music business. Namely, Tantra records honcho Garrett Schweck (Fisher Stevens of "Reversal of Fortune") signs Luke to a contract. Actually, all the hoopla on the Internet that Clea and Brier generated along with their acting friends posing as music executives fooled the opportunistic Garrett into signing Luke. When Garrett discovers that he has been duped, he drops Luke like a hot potato and cancels his contract.Girls just want to have it their way is what this movie is about. The message is don't be a flash-in-the-pan rock star; go into publishing and survive for the long haul. Peter Weller gives "Undiscovered" its final quarter-hour boost in a walk-on part he plays Wick Treadway, as a high-profile record company owner, while Fisher Stevens excels as an unsavory album producer. This movie is light as a soap bubble but glistens with substance. Girls attending an all-night pajama party with their stuffed bears would love this semi-music video, while older individuals may find themselves trying to wipe the tears out of their eyes before anybody else catches them. I bought it at a cheap sale at Movie Gallery and couldn't believe how endearing—yes—endearing that it was. The last minute dash to LAX by Luke in his brother Euan's colorful retro-Volkswagen bus is surprisingly suspenseful, even though you know Brier and he will solve their problems and live happily ever after.Indeed, the atmospheric cinematography of Danny Hiele of "Shades" gives Avis' movie more depth than you'd imagine. The complications in this kind of chick flick drives guys crazy and that only a teenage girl without a boyfriend would enjoy since it has no grasp on reality. Kuma, Luke's Runyon Canyon Dog, steals every scene that he is in with his real 'live' skateboarding antics. Dyed-in-the-wool romantics should stock up on Kleenex.

Mr_Sensitive This seems like a nice little flick as I first thought to myself while watching its trailer. It is also has a pretty neat casting include Carrie Fisher, Kip Pardue, Pell James, and Steven Straint.The story wasn't that bad, I like this kind of story about wannabe singer/actor tried to make it big but; somehow this movie hasn't been executed properly. No character development, and no proper plot - that after half an hour I absolutely lose interest in it. It such a waste of talent, seem like this movie is watchable because of the stars it has.Poor Mrs. S. Sossamon's character is the worst of all, sadly her character is a completely flop and almost nothing to do with the story on anything. Steven here in the movie do nothing but sing and more singing. That all the movie seems to consist of – people singing and nothing else. And the worst part is they actually sang the full version of the songs; imagine how many there is and how much time it take.Good part about this movie is – it is not about Mrs. A. Simpson like the way most movies goes by nowadays and her singing ability; but the bad part is they still let her sing couple of songs and her voice unlike the real thing was horrible in the movie. Her ability as a newbie actor wasn't all bad but compare to the real wannabe actors she is nothing. I also find the soundtrack to be extremely dreadful.Final Words: Seem like the director plan to make a sophisticated love story movie about the love for the girl and the music, but somehow he fails along the way. It was a let down.Reason To Watch: The Casting Is Fantastic.Reason Not To: The Story Fail The Movie.Rating: 3.5/10 (Grade: F).Please Rate After Reading (Y/N), Thank You.

christian123 Luke (Strait) and Brier (James) are two beautiful young people who have a chance encounter on a New York subway. Shortly later, they both go to L.A. to find fame, he as a rock star and her as an actress, but when they run into each other again, they have to decide whether their relationship is strong enough to withstand "the business." Undiscovered was named by many as the worst film of 2005. I can't say I really agree with that. The movie is kind of weak but it's still tolerable and it's also pretty harmless. The premise is fairly interesting even if it's not very original. The execution is only average but still much better than expected. The romance is pretty weak though and just not very interesting. The two leads don't have enough chemistry to make the movie work. There are a few moments of intrigue and some nice performances but the end result is still unsatisfying. The reason the film is kind of lackluster is because of the writer and the director. John Galt wrote the screenplay and he fails to really add anything new to this movie. Also, Meiert Avis just keeps everything by the numbers without adding any surprises.The acting is only okay with Carrie Fisher giving the best performance. She isn't given a lot of screen time but she still manages to give a few funny lines. Pell James is pretty good as Brier Tucket. She has that "model" look and she has an engaging quality that kept focusing my attention to her. Steven Strait is only okay as Luke. He's a little dull but he has that "rock star" look that suited the character. Ashlee Simpson plays Clea and she is actually only a supporting character in the movie. Her performance is surprisingly average (like the film) but she should stick to singing. Shannyn Sossamon was just annoying and not funny while Kip Pardue was only okay.I think the supporting characters really kept this movie moving. The scenes between Clea and Brier were pretty nice and engaging. Most of the characters were also pretty likable so the viewer at least cares for a happy ending. The ending was surprisingly good but very obvious. The music wasn't as painful as I was expecting it to be. I don't really like the type of music that was performed in the film but some of the songs were decent. Of course, there were a few cheesy songs but they can't all be winners. I think the movie was unfairly bashed because of Ashlee Simpson's appearance. However, she didn't bring down the movie and the film itself wasn't horrible. In the end, Undiscovered isn't worth checking out but it's not a travesty either. Rating 5/10

its_a_Kristina_thing Broke Gigli records? Horrible movie? I rented this movie, thinking it was going to be terrible. I actually thought it was very good.Most of the actors aren't well known, so it was much easier to watch and not be like, "Oh that's like their other character in that other movie where the guys does this and the thing blows up and......" or be thinking about their career and stuff. The movie seemed much more real with people that weren't known as Hollywood icons (except for Ashlee Simpson).I thought their Los Angeles life was very interesting and shot quite well. Unlike other movies, it didn't show only the best parts of town. Cramped apartments, Laundromats, outdoor restaurants, small theaters where the aspiring actors spent all their time running lines, the batting cages, city buses, airports, gyms, and other un- glamorous things were shot. The color wasn't perfect but then again they were in LA, a place filled with air pollution and such (as with other cities of course) and smog in the background, trash bags on the curbs, runaway dogs, and graffiti on the walls were filmed as well.The fact that they were all just friends in search of stardom but in different areas (acting, modeling, music, dance, song writing) made it interesting too. The story never got too into one field because the movie wasn't supposed to be about Ashlee's character getting that part or Luke's brother recording that song, but it did find that medium in establishing each character's struggle to achieve stardom (anxiety when auditioning, racking their brains to remember that line or come up with the rest of that song they've been writing, that adrenaline rush when on stage, doing anything to make more money, inviting their friends on stage to perform with them...). The only field it centered around was music, because most all of the characters were trying to build a career in music and the love aspect of the story between Luke and Brier was kept off because of Luke's success in stage performance- thanks in part to Brier- and Brier's weariness of the relationship due to past experiences with her old boyfriend, who was constantly cheating on her with groupies he met on the road, as he was a musician himself.I actually thought the movie was pretty realistic (well okay not completely realistic, almost no movies are these days, but it wasn't all changed up like other movies today who totally throw the truth out of wack.)Ashlee Simpson, though not extraordinarily talented, was not at all annoying or trying to be cute like in her early days on 7th Heaven as Cecilia and not trying to be all punk and sh*t like she was when her music career started out........ you know what I mean. I thought she was artsy and friendly and trustworthy in this movie, just a girl looking to be in the spotlight who loves performing and spends all her time reading scripts, hanging out at the theater, trying to get her friend noticed in this music world, etc. I actually ENJOYED her in this movie.Brier Tucket was played amazingly well by Pell James. Her character's mother had just died, she had few friends, had just moved to a new and very different city, her boyfriend was undoubtedly cheating on her, and she was being chased by another boy who she didn't want a relationship with because she feared that, because he was soon to be a rock star due to his exuding talent and charm, he would treat her the way her last boyfriend did. She had simply been hurt too much and was trying to be realistic. Brier was mature and filled with grace, trying not to let her feelings for Luke overcome her and allow her to be sucked into that world again. Luke, after seeing Brier for the very first time, guessed that she was a ballerina, as did I. Her gentleness and sensitiveness was touching, especially when she tried to cover her feelings up and be strong- when she called her boyfriend at his hotel after a show and heard multiple girls laughing in the background, when she left Luke's bedroom after coming to the realization that because he would soon be entering the music business it would be difficult for them to be together....Anyway, I thought this was a great movie, much better than I expected. I would give it somewhere in between a 5 and a six, certainly not a 2.8.