Undiscovered
By Oz Brown, Blockbuster.co.uk

When Brier, a successful New York model, moves to Los Angeles to act, the last person she expects to see is Luke, a stranger with whom she had a chance encounter on the New York City subway years before. The talented struggling musician has been smitten with Brier ever since. Brier puts her attraction to Luke on the back burner and instead enlists their mutual friend in a guerrilla public relations campaign to get Luke noticed and jumpstart his career.

Struggling musician Luke chances upon an attractive girl on his last day in New York but she is whisked away on the subway before he can speak to her. Flash forward several months, and Luke is now singing in an L.A. club. The girl, Brier, who is now trying to find work as an actor, visits the club (how's that for serendipity?), recognises Luke, and the two strike up a tentative relationship. Using her contacts and blagging skills, Brier promotes Luke and he is soon noticed by record scouts. Under the burgeoning pressure of his increasing popularity in musical circles and subsequent record deal, Luke becomes moody and self-obsessed, neglecting his friends and Brier. With his change of attitude, a disenchanted Brier heads to the airport -- can Luke rectify his mistakes in time for a reconciliation, or will he lose Brier forever...?

I didn't expect a great deal from this movie, having heard nothing about it prior to release, but was pleasantly surprised. It's your classic "guy meets girl, guy loses girl, guy gets a wake up call and tries to get back with girl" kind of movie but it's none the worse for it. The two leads are fairly endearing (Pell James especially, doing a good savvy-yet-vulnerable shtick), Fisher Stevens plays the seedy A&R impresario with relish, and there are some nice supporting roles from Carrie Fisher as Brier's agent and Peter Weller as Fisher's ex, the gloriously named Wick Treadway. Pop moppet Ashlee Simpson also surprises with an understated performance as Luke's friend. Oh, and bonus points for the skateboarding bulldog.

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