Raise Your Voice

Raise Your Voice (2004)

  • 15% of critics liked it
    (84 reviews)

  • 74% of users liked it
    (363,257 ratings)

A teenage girl learns that reaching for your dreams isn't always easy in this heartfelt drama with music. Terri Fletcher (Hilary Duff) is a small-town girl with a great love of music and a fine singing voice. Already one of the lead vocalists in her church choir, Terri has also appeared at local… More

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PG,
Directed By
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Written By
Sam Schreiber
Genres
Musical & Performing Arts, Drama
In Theaters
Oct 8, 2004 Wide
On DVD
Feb 15, 2005
New Line Cinema

Critic Reviews

  • Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper

    I like Hilary Duff, she's very charming, but she's stuck on this after school special level with these movies.

  • Desson Thomson, Washington Post

    This is for Duff's already committed audiences, which presumably consist of the young, the innocent and the commercially acquisitive.

  • Laura Sinagra, Village Voice

    All we can do is marvel at how the mighty -- Northern Exposure hottie John Corbett (as a weirdly flirty music teacher) and Risky Business babe Rebecca De Mornay (as Duff's frisky aunt) -- have fallen.

  • Mike Clark, USA Today

    Even the kindest reaction to Raise My Voice is likely to be 'shut your face.'

  • Susan Walker, Toronto Star

    The music in Raise Your Voice ... manages to bring home what the uninspired script doesn't: Something in you dies if you don't express your musical talent.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Bethany M


    This is getting 5 stars purely based on Oliver James performance. Such a beautiful guy and you couldn't help but fall in love with him. The plot of the film was good and since I watched this in my early teens, I was always going to have a real soft spot for this film. The start… More

  • Cassie H


    A great movie about finding your place in the world & following your heart :)

  • Dead A


    This is a good movie. Emotional and fun to watch.

  • KJ P


    Enjoyable with a good heart, but it crumbles after every scene!

  • Luke B


    After the death of her brother, Hilary Duff goes on rampage of revenge. Well, not exactly, she joins a music school or some shit. It wasn't very interesting, whatever it was. David Keith plays a character so fucking annoying you pray for his character to be gang raped by numerous… More

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