A nice little story for teenagers. It was on tv and I had nothing to do so I watched it. I summoned the teenager inside me and let her watch it. :-p Well, it was a bit silly, and full of these characters that are so alien to me, but it wasn't too bad.
Protagonist is about-to-turn-16 Abby (Debby Ryan) who only thinks about herself and what she wants, and who always wanted to grow up to have everything she desired, mainly popularity and clothes. She has a best friend in Jay (Jean-Luc Bilodeau) who of course is in love with her, no surprise there, friendship doesn't exist in this movies. Neighbour Krista (Karissa Tynes) is in constant competition with her, always trying to win against her.
On the day of her 16th birthday, fairy Celeste (Anna Mae Wills) comes to her in unexpected ways. First, her house in infested by wasps and they have to leave it, then she receives a gift, a box with sixteen candles and matches. Since she was eight she has a list of things she's like to do at 16, and those candles are supposed to be wish candles. She tries one as a joke, thinking it can't make things worse (she believes to be in a nightmare already only because she has to take the bus to school :-/). First candle, a famous (I guess) guy appears to wish her a happy birthday, so she realises that candles and wishes are related. Candle number one will grant wish number one, and so on.
She starts using them all in a stupid way, like having a car because Krista has a car, and generally trying to win against her. When at last she goes shopping for a birthday-party-dress, so it happens that Jay was carrying the money and he lost his wallet, so she had no money at all, and the woman working there treated them both like little kids, so Abby wishes to be an adult (or seen like an adult, or treated like an adult, I'm not sure on the words, but it doesn't matter). Wish granted, but it'll take some time for her to realize 'how' it worked. She's now 21, or 22, and has always been for the people living there. She has suddenly lost everything. Her parents wants her to find a job and leave alone, Jay is not her best friend anymore because he's 16 and she's 22, and she also lost her so-precious 16th birthday. Since the party she had planned never happened, her parents apparently gave Krista all her decorations, and she's now having the birthday party she wished for herself. They share the same birthday, but now Krista is different, not competitive, kind, and a better friend for Jay than she ever was.
Finally Abby realizes how selfish she had been: finally!
She tries her last chance to put things right thanks to a picture taken by her parents that same morning. She wishes for that day to start again, so she can put things right.
It works of course, and this time she makes things different. She gives the money she had saved for her dress to her brother to buy a real guitar, and she confronts Krista wanting to know why she's so competitive with her. She doesn't even remember, but years ago Jay was Krista's best friend, and Abby stole him from her. Now they make peace and have a birthday party together, suddenly friends.
Pretty common stuff, classic teenage-movie.
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