- A family musical with heart, "Rising Stars" explores the sacrifices that come with fame in reality-television-obsessed culture.
- Challenged with creating songs and music videos, three musical acts find more than their futures on the line when the competition gets fierce and their lives are caught on tape and broadcast to the nation. Egos clash and worlds collide as these teens find out how far they will go to win the coveted prize and achieve stardom.—Production
- "Rising Stars" is the most popular show on the Source One network, which no one had ever heard of until Mo made the show a hit. Despite a scandal last season, Mo hopes to make this a great season.
The movie starts with the semifinals. Two groups are competing--filmmakers and performers. The performers can be individuals, singing groups or bands. The three finalists in each category spend time on a college campus, where each filmmaker is paired with a musical act. Cameras and microphones follow the kids everywhere, so nearly everything they do is recorded for possible broadcast. The musicians must write and perform a song according to guidelines given to them, and the filmmakers must each produce a music video with the musicians.
Natalie, who has short hair but is sort of attractive, is usually depressed, partly because of her beautiful but perfectionist mother and her mostly absent father. She is paired with Chance's band, who sound like Maroon 5. Chance lives in a trailer but doesn't want anyone to know, but his bandmate Pete does. There is a potential romance.
Garrett is a bully who thinks he is better than anyone else and knows everything. He is paired with rapper/R&B duo JR and Eigsh (pronounced Ash). JR's father constantly reminds him he spend over $40,000 on lessons (and he knows the exact amount).
And awkward computer nerd Kevin is matched with perky and beautiful pop singer and dancer Brenna, who is somewhat lacking in the brains department and shallow but sweet.
There is potential for conflict here, but apparently not enough for Mo. While Mo is charming enough on camera, he mistreats everyone, especially his pretty assistant who has glasses (and is prettier without them) and a brain. Mo doesn't care about her opinions; as with everyone else, he just cares that she does for him what he needs done.
Mo secretly plans added drama that will make the show more interesting. But it just might backfire on him. There are definitely some lessons to be learned here.
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