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Title: Horrible
Review: Hilary Duff proves her incapabilities as both a singer and actress in this truly horrible family drama. Duff plays a high school student with musical aspirations. Her brother dies early on with a strange desire to send his sister to a performing arts camp in Los Angeles. So the predicatble happens and Duff goes off to the camp, connects with a boy, realizes her strengths, and overcomes her fears. Pretty melodramatic and trite.Duff has a charm about her but can't handle the demand of this role. Her character is given depth but her limitations as an actress keep the girl one dimensional. Keith David gives a Razzie worthy performance as the predictable strict father forbidding Duff to go the camp.The story is alright and James Avery (Uncle Phill from Fresh Prince) even pops up for an appearance, so that saves the film for a couple minutes. But ultimately the story falls flat through no realistic dramatic situations, lack of comedy, and lack of realism.
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