Camp Rock
Short description
Mitchie Torres wants nothing more than to spend her summer at a prestigious music camp, but her family cannot afford the fees. She ends up attending only because her mother takes a job in the camp kitchen, and Mitchie keeps her connection to the kitchen staff hidden from the other campers. After one of the members of the pop group Connect 3 is sent to the camp as a mentor, he hears a girl singing but never sees her face, and he sets out to find out who she is. Meanwhile Mitchie navigates friendships and rivalries among the campers while chasing her ambition to perform.
The film is a Disney Channel television movie directed by Matthew Diamond, written by Julie Brown, Karin Gist and Regina Y. Hicks, and produced by Kevin Lafferty. It sits between Diamond's Victor/Victoria and The Wiz Live! in his directing career. Demi Lovato plays Mitchie, with Joe Jonas as Shane Gray, Meaghan Jette Martin as Tess Tyler, Maria Canals-Barrera as Connie Torres, Alyson Stoner as Caitlyn Geller and Julie Brown as Dee La Duke, among a credited cast of 43.
Released in June 2008 and running 94 minutes, the musical comedy-drama mixes family, romance and teen rivalry. On IMDb it holds a rating of 5.2 from around 41,000 votes, while on TMDB it stands at 6.4 from more than 2,200 votes. A critics' score of 4.4 from 22 reviews places it below the audience figure on TMDB.
What's left behind the scenes
- The premiere of the film on the American cable channel Disney Channel on June 20, 2008, gathered an audience of 8.86 million viewers, which at that time was the second-highest result in the channel's entire history.
- The film's soundtrack album debuted at number three on the American Billboard music chart with 188,000 copies sold in its first week of release. The album was officially certified platinum, and more than 1.26 million copies were sold in the United States throughout 2008.
- On May 13, 2008, a novelization based on the film titled “Camp Rock: The Junior Novel” was released, written by American author Lucy Ruggles.
- The filming itself took only 25 days, but editing took a full seven months.
- During Mitchie's musical solo, the parents of the Jonas brothers and Demi Lovato can be spotted in the crowd around her.
- The working titles of the project were “Rock Camp Rules” and “Rock Camp On”.
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