A coming-of-age story centered around a small-town singer brokenhearted by the death of her brother in a car crash, who had secretly submitted her for a summer session at a performing arts academy in Los Angeles. In the academy, she experiences a whole new way of life in the big city, far from the small town lifestyle she's used to.
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.
– Susan Walker,
Toronto Star,
8 Oct 2004
rotten:
Even the kindest reaction to Raise My Voice is likely to be 'shut your face.'
– Mike Clark,
USA Today,
8 Oct 2004
rotten:
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.
– Laura Sinagra,
Village Voice,
8 Oct 2004
rotten:
This is for Duff's already committed audiences, which presumably consist of the young, the innocent and the commercially acquisitive.
– Desson Thomson,
Washington Post,
8 Oct 2004
rotten:
I like Hilary Duff, she's very charming, but she's stuck on this after school special level with these movies.