Tru Confessions

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name= Tru Confessions


caption = "Tru Confessions" promotional advertisement
imdb_id=0296251
writer=Janet Tashjian
Stu Krieger
starring=Clara Bryant
Shia LaBeouf
director=Paul Hoen
music=Mason Daring | distributor=Disney Channel
released=April 5, 2002
runtime= 81 min.
language=English
movie_series= Disney Channel Original Movies
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producer=Kevin May
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"Tru Confessions" (2002) is a Disney Channel Original Movie. Tru Walker aspires to be famous, and has a twin brother Eddie who suffers from a mental disability. He becomes the subject of her documentary for a film contest she enters. It was directed by Paul Hoen, based on the novel by Janet Tashjian.

Plot

Trudy "Tru" Walker is a teenager who wants to have her own TV-show. Tru dislikes her life, and is embarrassed because her twin brother, Eddie, has a mental disability which causes him to act like a young child. Tru feels sorry for him, but she is tired of people assuming she is also disabled. Tru, with the encouragement of her friends, decides to enter a contest, the winner of which will get their own TV show.

With the documentary contest submission deadline coming close, Tru has her friends, Eddie, and her mom watch it first. To Tru's dismay, they all found it dreadfully boring. So Tru makes a video of her brother's life, and all of his complications.

Tru thinks her mother doesn't get her, and seeks help from an online mentor named Deedee. Deedee helps Tru through her tough times.

The Walker family decide to go to a street fair, and they all go off to do their own thing. Tru is looking for Eddie, and when she finds him, he's wearing a new hat. Tru asks him where he got the hat, and Eddie points to a group of guys. Tru reminds him that he shouldn't take stuff from strangers. As luck would have it, one of the boys in the group is a boy from school that she likes. Tru goes up to him, to give him his hat back and to her surprise he asks her why would he want it back. He tells her he doesn't want it, because he and his friends spit in it. Tru is startled, and then he tells her she is a freak just like her brother. Tru pushes him off the low bridge they are on, into a small river.

Tru, upset and angry, blames her mother, saying that it was her fault. They have a long conversation, and when her mother says something that Deedee told her, Tru stops. Mrs. Walker then reveals that she was Deedee, and was just trying to communicate with her daughter.

Tru gets the idea to put together a video about her life with Eddie. She doesn't show it to anyone, and sends it in. In the next few days, she gets a letter telling her she won the contest. Her video is going to be shown on television.

Everybody is excited for the premiere. Tru, her friends, Mrs. Walker, and Eddie have a premiere party. Their dad has to work, and Tru is disappointed. While at his job at the hospital, Mr. Walker notices that he isn't even in the video.

When her father gets home from work later that night, he asks Tru why she didn't have him in the video at all. She reluctantly shows him the footage of him she did have, which shows him in a bad light. Mr. Walker then thinks he is a horrible father. When her father leaves the room, she notices a short clip of when she had said "if I do get my own T.V. show, I'll have someone ELSE cast as my mother." And her mother was standing right behind her.

Setting

Most of the movie was shot in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. As you can see when the kids exit the ferry it shows the CN Tower and other major buildings in Toronto. The school scenes were filmed at Danforth Collegiate and Technical Institute located in Toronto.

Cast

*Clara Bryant - Trudy "Tru" Walker
*Shia LaBeouf - Edward "Eddie" Walker
*Mare Winningham - Ginny
*William Francis McGuire - Bob
*Nicole Dicker - Denise Palumbo
*Kevin Duhaney - Jake
*Yani Gellman - William "Billy" Meier
*Craig Eldridge - Mr. Taylor
*Jennifer Foster - DeeDee
*Rahnuma Panthaky - Ms. Hinchey
*Colm Magner - Coach Rice
*Arnold Pinnock - Dr. Dean Cutler
*Keandre' Sutton - Eddie's Doctor
*Monet Sutton - Popular Girl at School

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