The Even Stevens Movie

The Even Stevens Movie

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Distributed by Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Directed by Sean McNamara
Produced by Stacey Korsier Box
David Grace
Written by Dennis Rinsler
Marc Warren
Based on Even Stevens 
by Matt Dearborn
Starring Shia LaBeouf
Christy Carlson Romano
Donna Pescow
Tom Virtue
Nick Spano
Steven Anthony Lawrence
Tim Meadows
Music by Mark Mothersbaugh
Cinematography Christian Sebaldt
Editing by Gregory Hobson
Production company Brookwell McNamara Entertainment
Country United States
Language English
Original channel Disney Channel
Release date June 13, 2003
Running time 93 minutes
Preceded by

The Even Stevens Movie is a 2003 American Disney Channel Original Movie that is based on the Disney Channel Original Series Even Stevens. It premiered on June 13, 2003, serving as the series finale.

Plot

After the graduation had been disrupted by Louis and Beans and Ren dumping her clueless boyfriend, the Stevens family and Beans are tricked into going on a "vacation" which turns out to be the set of a new reality tv show called "Family Fake Out", which all of their hometown friends and other locals are watching back in Sacramento. It is set on the fictional island of Mandelino, which, however exotic the producers make it up to be, is really only a short distance off the California coast.

When they first arrive on the island via Beaver floatplane, Louis is tricked into destroying the house they were meant to live in, thus making the island's "natives" (who are really actors for Family Fake Out) shun them and forcing the Stevens to live on their own. The family eventually separates into two groups pitted against each other. Both groups encounter various situations, such as facing starvation, encountering a "killer squirrel," and so on. Ren, during all this chaos, seeks solace with one of the "natives," Mootai, and they start to fall in love with each other; although the "native" is really an actor named Jason who is supposed to fall in love with her in order to boost ratings for the show, Jason realizes that he truly loves Ren.

Eventually, Louis' friends Twitty and Tawny make their way to the island, to rescue the Stevens and (in Twitty's case) to make up for betraying them, as he was the one who sold the family out to the show. Twitty is caught by the Family Fake-Out staff though he manages to escape and shuts down the equipment monitoring the Stevens' groups. Meanwhile, Donnie (the oldest Stevens' son) finds Tawny (although suffering from a little bit of amnesia, from getting hit on the head by a coconut upon her arrival), and the newly reconstituted family finally comes together and learns the truth. They unite with Twitty to stop Ren from killing Louis, because she believes he sold her and her new boyfriend out after being told by one of the island's "natives". Ren corners him on a cliff, and despite the protests of the family and Miles McDermot, the show's host who tells her the truth and the person who earlier set the family up, she pushes him off to his apparent death, much to the viewers' and Miles' shock.

As Miles breaks down in guilt, a Bell 206 helicopter from another reality show called "Gotcha" (a show that Miles was the producer for before he was fired) appears and reveals that Louis is safe and that the Stevens family had tricked Miles - the family found Ren and Louis, told them it was all a reality show, then planned a charade to get back at Miles for all he had done to them on the island. Twitty and Tawny caught Louis in a net after he fell off the cliff, and the family was only acting shocked when Ren pushed him off. After "Gotcha" reveals that they pranked Miles on his own show, Miles says that he should be getting back to the studio, at which point the "Gotcha" host says, "What for? Your career is over!" The Stevens then chase Miles to "get him" for all of his torment.

Reunited with their possessions and no longer wearing the same clothes they wore for days, Louis tells Ren that as his sister, he loves messing with her, but he would never do anything to hurt her. He then suggests she start a relationship back on the mainland with Jason. Jason comes and apologizes to Ren for stringing her along, but Ren forgives him and says she understood he was just doing his job as an actor. But Jason confesses that when he told her he loved her, he wasn't acting, his feelings were real.

A sea plane arrives to take the family home, and Twitty, wanting to make up for setting up the Stevens on Family Fake-Out, suggests that he just swim home. The family tells him that he can ride in the plane, but he has to sit next to Beans, who was "feeling a little gassy".

Later the family returns home and Beans explains in a voiceover what happened to everyone afterwards, (i.e. Donnie attending college, Steve returning to work, and Ren starting a new relationship with Jason) as he pops up at the Stevens' dinner to disrupt it yet again.

Cast

VHS and DVD release

The Even Stevens Movie was released on DVD and VHS on June 28, 2005 in Region 1 countries.

See also

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