LOL

You can change your status, but not your heart.
LOL (2012)
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Budget
$11 000 000
Revenue
$5 509 002
Director
Photo Lisa Azuelos
Lisa Azuelos
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Photo Lisa Azuelos
Lisa Azuelos
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Short description

Lola Williams is a teenager navigating high school in a Chicago suburb, where friendships, romances and misunderstandings with parents shape her daily life. Her mother, Anne, is divorced and struggling to connect with a daughter who seems to live in a different world. When Anne reads Lola's private journal, the gap between them becomes impossible to ignore. This is a story about a generation growing up online, and about a mother trying to understand her child before a school trip to Paris takes Lola further away.

This American remake of the 2009 French film of the same name is directed by Lisa Azuelos, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Kamir Aïnouz and directed the original. It sits between Women (1995) and Quantum Love (2014) in her filmography as her third feature as director. Miley Cyrus plays Lola, with Demi Moore as Anne, Douglas Booth as Kyle, Ashley Greene, Ashley Grace and Thomas Jane rounding out the cast.

The film was released in February 2012 and runs 97 minutes. Made for a budget of 11 million USD, it earned 6 million worldwide, a return well below its production cost. On IMDb it holds a rating of 4.4 from 60,000 votes, while on TMDB it stands at 6.1 from 2,758 votes, showing a marked difference between the two audiences. The critics' rating of 3.7 from 7 reviews places it below even the lower of the two audience scores.

What's left behind the scenes

  • Lisa Azuelos is also the director and screenwriter of the first adaptation of the film ('LOL', 2008). It was a French film starring Sophie Marceau. Azuelos filmed it realizing that in her homeland of France, there are practically no films based on the lives of teenagers. She often watched her daughter go to the cinema to watch either a film about American teenagers or a horror film.
  • Tish Cyrus – Miley Cyrus' mother, who played the main role in the film – also joined the producers of 'The Last Summer'.
  • The film takes place in Chicago (but was actually filmed in Detroit), and near Kyle's apartment, a group of RenCen mansions is shown, which are located in Detroit.

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