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True Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet
MOVIE: Lifetime, Saturday 8/9 at 9:00p (120 minutes)


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Starring Joanna "JoJo" Levesque, Valerie Bertinelli, Ian Nelson, Justin Louis, and Lynda Boyd

Hollywood actress Morgan Carter (Joanna "JoJo" Levesque) is sent to her aunt's (Valerie Bertinelli) house in Indiana to recover after a near overdose in this adaptation of the novel by Lola Douglas.

GENRE(S):	Drama
CREATED BY:	Lola Douglas (Book)
FIRST AIR DATE:	August 9, 2008

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Entertainment Weekly Leah Greenblatt

Despite some yawning plot holes (superfamous blond actress + brunet dye job = total undercover stranger! who knew?), it's surprisingly self-aware fun.

Hollywood Reporter Marilyn Moss

Confessions constantly walks the line between predictable (which eventually wins out) and original (stemming from some delectable repartee between Levesque and Bertinelli).

Slate Troy Patterson

Just below the surface of Hollywood Starlet, the only thing below the surface, is the idea that a glossy kind of victimology--one that tweens and twentysomethings might want a vicarious jolt of--is ascendant.

LA Weekly Robert Abele

[Levesque’s] solid with the snappy comebacks, glides through the clichéd lines (you just knew she’d eventually say, “There’s a lot you don’t know about me”) and is genuine when she has to apologize for her ’tude.

New York Post Kyle Smith

OK, the story is predictable and the drama is low-cal. But director Tim Matheson, who uses a snappy electronipop score, keeps things moving as we progress from inside jokes-LiLo herself gets a mention-to hugs.

New York Daily News David Hinckley

Occasionally True Confessions, which is based on the Lola Douglas novel of the same name, takes things a little past the limit....But for a couple of hours of good, clean, wholesome and utter escapism with a certified upbeat Lifetime ending, True Confessions goes down easy on a summer night.

Variety Brian Lowry

Elisa Bell's screenplay adaptation is full of all kinds of similar showbiz references in pursuit of street cred, but Tim Matheson's direction drunkenly careens all over.

The average user rating for this tv show is 6.0 (out of 10) based on 2 User Votes
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D D gave it a2:
It looked like a teen Afterschool Special that they used to have. This wasn't the role I was expecting to see Val in, it didn't show her true talent. It was a boring movie to me. Clean cut, yes, but boring.

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True Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet MOVIE: Lifetime, Saturday 8/9 at 9:00p (120 minutes)

True Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet
MOVIE: Lifetime, Saturday 8/9 at 9:00p (120 minutes)