Tru Confessions

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Tru Confessions
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Directed by	Paul Hoen
Produced by	Kevin May
Written by	Janet Tashjian Stu Krieger
Starring	Clara Bryant Shia LaBeouf
Music by	Mason Daring
Distributed by	Disney Channel
Release date(s)	April 5, 2002
Running time	112 min.
Language	English
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Tru Confessions (2002) is a Disney Channel Original Movie. Tru Walker aspires to be famous, and has a mentally-handicapped twin brother Eddie, who becomes the subject of her documentary for film contest she enters. It was directed by Paul Hoen, based on the novel by Janet Tashjian.

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[edit] Plot Summary

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Tru Walker is a teenager who wants to have her own TV-show. Tru dislikes her life, and is embarrassed because her twin brother is mentally-handicapped. Tru feels bad for him, but she is tired of people assuming she is mental as well. Tru, with the encouragement of her friends, decides to enter a contest, the winner of which will get his own TV-show.

Tru thinks her mother doesn't get her, and seeks help from an online mentor named Deedee. Deedee helps Tru through her stamp collection.

Eddie is a bit of a burden to Tru. She has to babysit him, and take him with her to the mall, the library, or the park. One day, Tru, Eddie, and her two friends go to a large library. Eddie goes to put a book back, but drops it on the ground. Passersby kicked his book into the elevator, so Eddie gets out, and gets lost in the big aisles. Eddie screams for Tru, and Eddie cries that he hates not being normal. He just wants to be like everyone else. Tru comforts him, and tells him that she likes Eddie just the way he is. Tru realizes that she and Eddie are drifting apart, and how left out he must feel.

The Walker family decide to go to a street fair, and they all go off to do their own thing. They meet up, and Eddie is wearing a strange hat. Tru asks him where he got the hat, and to Tru's surprise, he pointed to the guy she was crushing on. Tru goes up to him, to give him his hat back (she thought Eddie stole it from him). He tells her he doesn't want it, because he and his friends spit in it. Tru is startled, and then he calls her a freak just like him. Tru pushes him off the low bridge they are on, into a small river.

Tru, upset and angry, blames her mother, saying that it was her fault. They have a long conversation, and when her mother says something that Deedee told her, Tru stops. Mrs. Walker then reveals that she was Deedee, and was just trying to communicate with her.

With the documentary contest submission deadline coming close, Tru has her friends, Eddie, and her mom watch it first. To Tru's dismay, they all found it dreadfully boring. With only days until the deadline, Tru puts together old videos of Eddie, and her family, and reluctantly sends it in, fearing that her peers will mock her.

Everybody is excited for the premiere. Tru, her friends, Mrs. Walker, and Eddie have a premiere party. Tru's dad has to work, and Tru's disappointed. While at his job at the hospital, Mr. Walker notices that he isn't even in the video.

When he gets home, he asks Tru why, and she shows him the footage of him she did have, which shows him in a bad light. Mr. Walker then thinks he is a horrible father, but Tru tells it's because he's always working.

Tru has a nightmare that everybody in school laughs at her. When she goes to school, however, everybody is clapping for her and Eddie. Tru is happy, and later finds out that she has won the contest.