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Stuck in the Suburbs is a Disney Channel Original Movie (DCOM) released on July 16, 2004, starring Danielle Panabaker as Brittany Aarons and Brenda Song as Natasha Kwon-Shwartz. The movie stars as Brittany, a girl that lives in the suburban areas of New York.

Plot

A rock star's PDA falls into the hands of teenage girls.

Brittany Aarons (Danielle Panabaker) is one of many 14-year-old girls who has the hots for popular singer and boy-toy Jordan Cahill (Tarian). However, she is bored of living a suburban existence and seeks a little something more. She meets the new girl Natasha Kwan-Schwartz (Brenda Song), who looks like an Upper East-sider from the City, except she's not. Upon Natasha's arrival, Brittany slowly starts to make a move towards breaking out of her conformist routines, but not before becoming an extra in Jordan's latest music video, and inviting Natasha to join her and her fangirl friends. When Jordan and his team bumps into Brittany and Natasha after a show, they all collect their stuff, and get each other's cell phones. Once Brittany gets a hold of Jordan's much more sophisticated phone, Natasha convinces Brittany that it'd be fun to mess with his career. They prank call his hair stylist, gets her to cut off all his hair, and serve him with raisins, a food in which he is allergic to. Along the way they find that Jordan's life is not the life he chooses, but rather the one his record company wants for him. They won't even allow him to use the original lyrics he wants for his own songs. At first he's terrified that his personal barber gave him a major haircut, but eventually accepts it as the first step towards a break from his manufactored image.

Symbolism

Cell phones

Cell phones demonstrate how technology and widespread mass communication can change a person's life.

Jordan's Hair

Jordan's hair changes throughout the movie. His long hair represents the sexy moneymaker that attracts his female fans. When he has long hair, he is seemingly happy, because he is making money and lots of people love him, even though he is under several burdens and contracts with his record company. The haircut changes this, however. Short hair represents his inner self, the old Jordan before fame happened, and allows him to remember his roots.

Suburbs

Suburbs represent the living space of the average middle class American family. Since the Disney film's target audience are children and teenagers living with their parents, this is very relevant. In this case, since every child is raised with this same lifestyle, everyone is living in conformity. Suburbs represent the sameness that we are not responsible for, and have no control over.

The Old House

Situated in a neighborhood of brand-new houses, the old house in this movie is the only thing that remains constant. Throughout the movie, the characters protest to save the house from destruction. At first Brittany doesn't believe in it, but in the end she supports it. This house represents the sameness that we do have control over, and that it is possible to change for the better yet be constant at the same time.

Theme

Stay true to yourself, don't try to be someone you are not, always remember where you came from, and don't change for anyone or anything. It doesn't matter who you are or where you live, as long as you are true to yourself and others.

Goofs

In the scene where Jordan Cahill sings on the porch of the old house, he is holding the guitar but he is not actually playing it.
When the mom takes away Brittany's big bowl of ice cream and hands it to the dad, the whipped cream tilts sideways revealing the cardboard it's resting on.
When Brittany's brother hacks Jordan's cell phone, the cell phone is off.
When the girls dance during the premier of Jordan's music video at the beginning of the movie, they fall over the couch and sit on the overturned couch for a couple of seconds. While they sit there you can see the bottom of their soccer spikes. Supposidly the girls just came from soccer practice, yet their spikes have no grass stains, no mud between the spikes, and look like they are brand new.
One time when a car pulls up to the camera and men get out, you can see the microphone's reflection in the car.

Trivia

When her brother asks what Jordan's birthday is to hack into his cell, Brittany tells him it is 4/1/82. This is Taran Killam's actual birthday.
Although it takes place in upstate New York, the motion picture was filmed in New Orleans.
The movie's school scenes were filmed at "Ben Franklin High School."
The music video "Make A Wish" was filmed in City Park of Louisiana.
That's So Raven co-star Anneliese van der Pol
sings a song and has a video for this movie.
Quite a few items in Brittany's bedroom, such as her bed and the pillows/sheets, are from Pottery Barn Teen. The same goes for Natasha's room (bedspread, lamp, side table).
Jesse McCartney
sings "Good Life" for the movie. He's also in Summerland with Danielle Panabaker
's younger sister, Kay Panabaker
.
This movie has a lot of obnoxious screaming in it.

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