| The Barbie Diaries | |
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| Directed by | Eric Fogel Kallen Kagen |
| Starring | Kelly Sheridan Skye Sweetnam Sarah Edmondson Venus Terzo Ashleigh Ball Matt Hill |
| Music by | Russ DeSalvo Peter Schwartz |
| Editing by | Bryan Shelton |
| Studio | Curios Pictures Mattel Entertainment |
| Distributed by | Lionsgate Home Entertainment |
| Release date(s) | May 9, 2006 |
| Running time | 70 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Barbie Diaries is a 2006 motion capture film featuring popular Mattel character Barbie. It is part of the Barbie film series.
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In "The Barbie Diaries," Barbie is portrayed as a typical American teenager in high school who encounters the problems that real-life teens often encounter: making new friends, dating, gossip, and getting involved in school. She always gets beaten in everything by Raquel, a snobby girl who used to be her best friend in fifth grade. On the first day of school, she attempts to become anchorwoman for the school TV station but Raquel beats her to it. Instead, she becomes Raquel's personal slave, buying her drinks and doing her work.
Then, Todd (Raquel's boyfriend who was previously dumped by her and Barbie's crush) asks her to the dance. Thrilled, Barbie as well as her friends Tia and Courtney rush to buy a dress when they discover that Raquel and Todd are together again. The mysterious woman at the counter, whose name is Stephanie, gives them advice and offers them some charm bracelets for free. Barbie's happens to come with a diary which she writes her hopes in.
Soon after, what she wrote starts to mysteriously "come true." Someone--who she thinks is Todd--leaves her love notes, and her band, Charmz, gets a gig at the school dance that Barbie was previously invited to. Next, Barbie decides to do a piece on popular kids and "What Makes Them Popular." She soon starts to neglect her friends and does not tell the popular kids that the story is actually quite mean. Barbie realizes that her hopes written in the diary "came true" and rushes to the mall to ask Stephanie about it. To her shock, it is revealed that the woman never worked there and apparently does not exist.
Tia and Courtney discover that it is Kevin-Barbie's longtime friend-that has been leaving her the love notes. They pressure him to tell her but he refuses. Soon, Raquel steals Barbie's so-called "magic bracelet" and the popular kids discover the truth about the story. Barbie chooses to instead showcase Kevin's film clips depicting a paperclip chain attacking his eBook. On the night of the dance (which she has chosen not to go to), her friends arrive and tell her that she has to perform with them, giving her the dress that they put on hold for her at the mall.
Still worried as she has no bracelet, Kevin takes one of her guitar strings and loops it around her wrist. Barbie points out that it is a "stupid piece of bent metal" until she realizes that that is what her bracelet was. The girls rock the concert with Courtney finally able to do a drum stick manuveour that she couldn't do before. Barbie and Todd dance until Todd reveals that he'd never written any such notes.
Confused, she thinks back to other people who were in the places the notes had said. Realizing that it was Kevin all along, Barbie leaves in the middle of the dance and goes over to Kevin. Kevin gives her back the charm bracelet that he found on the ground (it had ripped Raquel's dress and caused her to be covered with punch). She apologizes for never realizing, but points out that the bizarre rhyming in the notes was a giveaway: "Who else would rhyme scary with library?" The two dance together, finally a couple.
01. Kesha - Invisible
02. Girl Most Likely To
03. Feels Like Love
04. Real Life
05. Elanya - Fate Finds A Way
06. Skye Sweetnam - This Is Me
07. Skye Sweetnam - Real Life
08. Skye Sweetnam - Girl Most Likely To
09. Skye Sweetnam - Note to Self
10. Huckapoo - Where You Belong
11. Deanna DellaCioppa - I Don't Wanna Sleep
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