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True Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet
EMAILPRINTMOVIE: Lifetime, Saturday 8/9 at 9:00p (120 minutes)
Generally favorable reviews
Based on 7 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 3 votes
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Show Info
Genre(s): Drama
Created By: Lola Douglas (Book)
First Air Date: August 9, 2008
Summary
Starring Joanna "JoJo" Levesque, Valerie Bertinelli, Ian Nelson, Justin Louis, and Lynda Boyd
Hollywood actress Morgan Carter (Joanna "JoJo" Levesque) is sent to her aunt's (Valerie Bertinelli) house in Indiana to recover after a near overdose in this adaptation of the novel by Lola Douglas.
Also On The Web: Official Show Site
What The Critics Said
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Entertainment WeeklyLeah Greenblatt
Despite some yawning plot holes (superfamous blond actress + brunet dye job = total undercover stranger! who knew?), it's surprisingly self-aware fun.
Read Full Review >Hollywood ReporterMarilyn Moss
Confessions constantly walks the line between predictable (which eventually wins out) and original (stemming from some delectable repartee between Levesque and Bertinelli).
Read Full Review >SlateTroy Patterson
Just below the surface of Hollywood Starlet, the only thing below the surface, is the idea that a glossy kind of victimology--one that tweens and twentysomethings might want a vicarious jolt of--is ascendant.
Read Full Review >LA WeeklyRobert Abele
[Levesque’s] solid with the snappy comebacks, glides through the clichéd lines (you just knew she’d eventually say, “There’s a lot you don’t know about me”) and is genuine when she has to apologize for her ’tude.
Read Full Review >New York PostKyle Smith
OK, the story is predictable and the drama is low-cal. But director Tim Matheson, who uses a snappy electronipop score, keeps things moving as we progress from inside jokes-LiLo herself gets a mention-to hugs.
Read Full Review >New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley
Occasionally True Confessions, which is based on the Lola Douglas novel of the same name, takes things a little past the limit....But for a couple of hours of good, clean, wholesome and utter escapism with a certified upbeat Lifetime ending, True Confessions goes down easy on a summer night.
Read Full Review >VarietyBrian Lowry
Elisa Bell's screenplay adaptation is full of all kinds of similar showbiz references in pursuit of street cred, but Tim Matheson's direction drunkenly careens all over.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this show is 7.3 (out of 10) based on 3 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
D D gave it a2:
It looked like a teen Afterschool Special that they used to have. This wasn't the role I was expecting to see Val in, it didn't show her true talent. It was a boring movie to me. Clean cut, yes, but boring.
