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Undiscovered
Lions Gate Films Inc.

Undiscovered reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 29 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
3.7 out of 10
based on 22 reviews
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based on 14 votes
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MPAA RATING: PG-13 for sexual material including dialogue, partial nudity, language and drug content

Starring Steven Strait, Pell James, Kip Pardue, Carrie Fisher, Ashlee Simpson, errey Reeves, Fisher Stevens, Peter Weller, and Shannyn Sossamon

In this romantic comedy a struggling musician and young model from New York seek fame in Los Angeles and find love along the way.


GENRE(S): Comedy  |  Drama  |  Romance  
WRITTEN BY: John Galt  
DIRECTED BY: Meiert Avis  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: December 27, 2005 
Video: December 27, 2005 
Theatrical: August 26, 2005 
RUNNING TIME: 97 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

What The Critics Said

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63
New York Post Kyle Smith
It isn't a really good movie, but there's real talent in it.
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63
Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
An enjoyably cheesy teen melodrama with a touch of indie edge.
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50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey
The trouble with Undiscovered isn't that it's actively annoying but it's so dramatically listless it seems determined to become Unremembered.
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50
Boston Globe Wesley Morris
It doesn't belong at a megaplex. It should be playing on a Clear Channel station.
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50
Chicago Tribune Robert K. Elder
There is a good movie here--Strait actually sings the songs that stand on their own, and he's appealing, despite the rock movie cliches.
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40
Los Angeles Times Kevin Crust
The whole movie could be clipped by about 95 minutes and it would make a swell little video for Simpson's performance of the title cut from the soundtrack.
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40
TV Guide Ken Fox
The music is surprisingly good and there's a skateboarding bulldog that you've just gotta see to believe.
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40
Variety Robert Koehler
As a cautionary drama on the price of fame, Undiscovered could not tread on more exhaustively discovered territory, and the result is a reel-by-reel trail of cliches.
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40
Chicago Reader J.R. Jones
It isn't bad enough to be good.
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40
LA Weekly Mark Olsen
Undiscovered is beaten on all counts by TV’s "Entourage" and "Unscripted" in its portrayal of the aspirational lifestyle and its end-of-the-rainbow spoils.
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38
New York Daily News Jack Mathews
On paper, the "rising stars" of Meiert Avis' low-flying romantic comedy Undiscovered are Steven Strait and Pell James, but the real star is Tyson the Skateboarding Dog.
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38
Miami Herald Christie Lemire
Too inert to be titillating, too generic to be engaging.
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30
Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan
Tailored for the readership of Teen People magazine and about as thought-provoking as the average 500-word celebrity profile.
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30
The New York Times Jeannette Catsoulis
Though filled with romantic contrivances and overlong musical numbers, Undiscovered is curiously lifeless. Bland actors portray single-cell characters in a plot scarcely more diverting than Ms. Simpson's reality vehicle, "The Ashlee Simpson Show."
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30
The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin
The vapid teen talent show Undiscovered turns on a plot point so moronic that even the most dedicated bad-movie buffs have cause to stay away.
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30
Village Voice Nona Willis-Aronowitz
A PG-13 dramedy set in L.A. about some attractive, way-too-earnest aspiring stars has the potential to be a delectable good-bad favorite, but Undiscovered is nowhere near the guilty pleasure it could have been.
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30
The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen
An entirely dispensable, soapy caricature of a love story that comes complete with a jukebox full of music industry cliches plus Ashlee Simpson's big feature film debut.
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25
Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
As Brier's comrade-in-lip-gloss, Ashlee Simpson, dressed to look like a teenybop girl version of Crispin Glover in "River's Edge," is the real deal -- in fake cred.
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25
San Francisco Chronicle Peter Hartlaub
The movie plays more like a WB network teen drama than something audiences should be expected to pay to see.
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25
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Bill White
Undiscovered promotes one of the stupidest visions of the entertainment industry since "American Idol" opened the celebrity gateway to the dregs of the karaoke generation.
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11
Austin Chronicle Kimberley Jones
Some things are best left undiscovered.
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0
Washington Post Ann Hornaday
Indeed, I'd say Undiscovered belongs on the WB, but that would be gravely unfair to the channel, which looks like the BBC in comparison.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 3.7 (out of 10) based on 14 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Jason M gave it a0:
The movie was almost as good as Ashley's performance at the halftime show where she was booed by 20,000 people.

Patrick K gave it a0:
Ashlee Simpson. What more do you need to know?

Tyler D. gave it a0:
If they could somehow morph this movie and the sicko trash movie "Chaos," I might actually watch it.

R C gave it a0:
Awful movie! Simpson, you are not an actress! (Or a singer as a matter of fact) Don't try! Just because you are famous (somehow) doesn't mean you automatically have talent. Leave the acting to Russell Crowe and the music to John Coltrane and Charlie Parker. (real talent)

Chuck W. gave it a0:
They should have kept their working title "Wannabe" because this movie wannabe something original, but it's definitely not!

Prudence Khillers gave it a0:
AWFUL! Just gross. Disgusting film. One of the worst in a while.

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