Read It And Weep (previously titled How My Private, Personal Journal Became A Bestseller) is a Disney Channel Original Movie which premiered on July 21, 2006. It is based on the novel by Julia DeVillers. Sisters Kay and Danielle Panabaker star as Jamie Bartlett and her alter ego Isabella (Iz or Is), respectively. Both sisters have both starred in previous Disney Channel movies: Kay in Life is Ruff, and Danielle in Stuck in the Suburbs. 1.6 million viewers tuned into this episode in the U.L placing it 1st in its timeslot.
Read It And Weep begins with Jamie Bartlett, who has three best friends named Connor, Lindsay and Harmony, and an enemy named Sawyer Sullivan. She also owns a tablet PC which she writes in every day. In that journal she writes about herself as "IS", a popular girl with a personality opposite of her own, and writes about all the kids at school. After she accidentally turns the journal in for an English assignment, it wins a writing contest. Jamie becomes increasingly materialistic and critical of the world around her, quitting her job at her father's pizza place, ridiculing her brother's guitar playing and favouring her new fame and success over her friends. She gains success and popularity, until she reveals on a television interview that the antagonist of her novel is based on Sawyer, the ex-girlfriend of her crush. As the rest of her high school discovers that the book was based on Jamie's more negative feelings towards the school, she wishes to restore her relationships but her friends are unwilling to trust her again. Finally, at the school dance she apologizes in front of everybody and all is forgiven. Jamie then asks Connor for forgiveness. They share a kiss and Jamie gets rid of Is once and for all.
Read It and Weep was filmed at Murray High School & Downtown Salt Lake City. Murray High School was also the set of: Take Down (1978), the auditorium scene of High School Musical (2006), Minutemen (2008) and High School Musical: Get in the Picture (2008).
