The film focuses on a 15-year-old girl called Lola Cep, who enjoys acting and her life in New York City—only for her family to move to New Jersey. Lola is unhappy about that.

When she starts school there, she befriends this girl, Ella Gerard. She also says that her dad died right before her younger twin sisters were born.

Once in class, Lola also meets this mean girl, Carla Santini. The teacher, Miss Baggoli, also runs the drama club.

Lola is desperate to be in the upcoming school performance, Eliza Rocks, based off the play, Pygmalion (an equivalent to the famous musical, My Fair Lady). However, she comes to the auditions late and unprepared. Yet she performs a song by her favorite band, Sidarthur. Everyone is impressed.

Even though Carla is dying to get the lead role of Eliza, it ends up going to Lola. However, not long after, Lola finds out that Sidarthur is coming to an end and is devastated. She won’t even eat during meals, and she does these strange “religious” rituals.

At some point, Lola goes to an arcade and competes with Carla in a dancing game. Carla wins. In addition, she reveals to Lola that she has tickets for Sidarthur’s last concert. Her dad also works with the lead singer, Stu Wolff. So, she has a better chance of being invited to the afterparty.

Jealous, Lola lies and says that she and Ella have tickets to the concert, as well. But her peculiar behavior has made her mother impatient and annoyed. As a result, she wouldn’t give Lola her allowance for the month. Not only that, but the final concert for Sidarthur is also sold out.

But Carla says that there may be people who will sell their tickets last minute for a certain price. Later, Lola and Ella go to New York City with Ella’s parents. On the train, they give themselves each a makeover.

However, once they get to the concert venue, and someone is nice enough to sell them his ticket, Lola and Ella find out that they have no money. Lola had her cash in her make-up bag, which she left on the train.

After some struggles to past security, Lola and Ella listen to the concert from outside closed doors. They even run into Stu Wolff, who is drunk.

They then take him to a diner and order coffee for him and themselves. But Stu is so intoxicated that he throws food at a cop nearby.

The 3 are then at a police station, trying to avoid getting locked up. While waiting to be picked up, Lola confesses to Ella that her dad is actually still alive. She only lied to sound impressive. This angers Ella since she is passionate about honesty.

Once back at school, and during play rehearsal, Lola confesses that she had her crush, Sam, steal a dress from the drama closet to wear to an upcoming event. No one believes her, though. Carla accuses her of lying even more, causing everyone to laugh at her.

Poor Lola is publicly humiliated and cries. What will occur next?

I am going to admit that this film did not please me as much as I predicted. Even though the pacing was quick, the characters were sometimes not very likable—especially Lola.

Yes, that’s the point of the story. Lola is supposed to be overly dramatic. But it made her less relatable and more immature.

On the bright side, there were strengths, as well. For instance, I enjoyed disliking Carla. She was so unkind to Lola, making me feel sorry for the latter girl.

Ella was also likable, even if she would overreact at times. The other characters were well-developed, in addition. And Stu was very believable.

Even though drunkenness wouldn’t normally be suitable for a family-friendly movie, as an adult, I accepted it in this one. Being famous can be stressful, which is why certain big names drink and do drugs.

I could also relate to Lola when she didn’t want to move out of New York. It is normal to be unhappy when moving out from somewhere you grew up and loved.

While on the topic of change, I will state that the second half of this film got better with the increased levels of tension. Twists and turns do take place, too.

Overall, I thought Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen was decent. But despite the amount of promotion it got when it came out, the reviews from others aren’t that great.

I give this movie 3.5 out of 5 stars.