Trivia / Raise Your Voice

• Box Office Bomb: Just missed making back its budget of $15 million, grossing only $14,867,514.
• Completely Different Title:
  • Listen To My Voice (Spain)
  • The Girl in the Summer (Peru)
  • A Star Is Born (Hungary)
  • Chance of Success (Poland)
  • Summer Tunes (Finland)
  • Never Give Up! (Czech Republic)
  • The Summer of Terri (Greece)
  • Follow your Dream (Portugal)
  • The Trail of Fame (Brazil)
  • Superstar (Russia)
  • Raise Your Voice: Live Your Dream (Germany) - the "Raise Your Voice" part is untranslated from English.
  • Born for Winning (Italy)
• Dawson Casting: Many of the other 'teen' characters were played by actors and actresses who were in their early-mid 20s at the time of filming. In fact, Hillary Duff was the one averted case; She was around the age of her character.
• Fake Russian: Mr. Wesson, Bristol-Hillman's Russian-accented (but English-named) sight reading instructor, is played by the American-born Robert Trebor.
• Direct to Video: In the UK.
• Tom Hanks Syndrome: Arguably, Hilary Duff's first step into this. Raise Your Voice is much more dramatic than her previous works, particularly the parts dealing with her character's dead brother, although it still generally fits into the tween genre.
• What Could Have Been: Evan Rachel Wood was set to star in the movie but dropped out in pre-production.

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