The Even Stevens Movie

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The Even Stevens Movie
Promotional poster
Genre	Comedy
Based on	Even Stevens by Matt Dearborn
Written by	Dennis Rinsler Marc Warren
Directed by	Sean McNamara
Starring	Shia LaBeouf Christy Carlson Romano Donna Pescow Tom Virtue Nick Spano Steven Anthony Lawrence Tim Meadows
Theme music composer	Mark Mothersbaugh
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Producers	Stacey Kosier Box David Grace
Cinematography	Christian Sebaldt
Editor	Gregory Hobson
Running time	93 minutes
Production company	Brookwell McNamara Entertainment
Distributor	Buena Vista Television
Release
Original network	Disney Channel
Original release	June 13, 2003 (2003-06-13)
Chronology
Preceded by	Even Stevens (2000-2003)

The Even Stevens Movie is a 2003 American Disney Channel Original Movie that is based on the Disney Channel Original Series Even Stevens. It premiered on June 13, 2003, serving as the series finale. The movie drew an audience of 5.1 million viewers.

Plot[]

An unknown person sorts through pictures of random families on a computer until he chooses the Stevens family. Meanwhile, Louis Stevens interrupts his older sister Ren's junior high graduation with a remote-controlled beachball meant to be full of confetti, unaware that his sidekick Beans has filled it with spaghetti, which spills on the school's gym teacher Coach Tugnut as the beachball explodes, although Louis though it made the prank even better. The next day, Ren breaks up with her boyfriend Gil and takes a job babysitting Beans. After Ren and Louis get into a fight and accidentally hurt a stranger named Miles McDermott, he talks the Stevens family and Beans into going on a vacation, which is the set of a new reality TV show called Family Fakeout. It is set on the fictional island of Mandelino, which in reality is only a short distance off the California coast.

The family is enthusiastically welcomed by a large ensemble of actors portraying island natives, but Louis accidentally destroys the sacred palace the family was meant to spend their vacation in, making the "natives" shun them. The family separates into two groups pitted against each other. Both groups encounter various situations, such as facing starvation and a "killer squirrel." Ren seeks solace with a native named Mootai and they fall in love. Mootai is actually an actor named Jason who is supposed to romance Ren merely to boost ratings, but he is genuinely interested in her, and can't bring himself to break up with her when he is scripted to do so. The "native" actors improvise and kidnap Jason, claiming Louis sold them out, leaving Ren vengeful.

Louis' best friend Twitty and girlfriend Tawny come to the island to rescue them. Twitty is caught by the show's staff, but he escapes and shuts down the equipment monitoring the Stevens groups. Louis and Ren's older brother Donnie finds Tawny, and the reunited family learns the truth. They join Twitty and Tawny to stop Ren from killing Louis. Ren corners him on a cliff, and despite the protests of the family and Miles, who tells her the truth, she pushes Louis off to his apparent death, much to the viewers' and Miles' horror. As Miles breaks down in guilt, a helicopter from another reality show, Gotcha, appears and reveals that Louis is safe and that the Stevens had tricked Miles; they planned a charade to get back at him for what he had done to them. Lance LeBow, the host of the TV show, Gotcha, informs Miles that he is no longer a host of his own show because of his torments. He is then chased away by the Stevens family.

Louis tells Ren that as his sister, he loves messing with her, but he would never do anything to hurt her. He then suggests she start a relationship with Jason back on the mainland. Jason comes and apologizes to Ren for stringing her along, but she forgives him and says she understood he was just doing his job as an actor. Jason confesses that when he told her he loved her, he wasn't acting and his feelings were real. After the family returns home and Beans pops up to disrupt their dinner, Ren and Louis argue about who let Beans in the house. The film ends with The Twitty-Stevens Connection singing "Dream Vacation."

Cast[]

• Shia LaBeouf as Louis Stevens
• Christy Carlson Romano as Ren Stevens
• Donna Pescow as Eileen Stevens
• Tom Virtue as Steve Stevens
• Nick Spano as Donnie Stevens
• Steven Anthony Lawrence as Bernard "Beans" Aranguren, Louis's young sidekick
• Tim Meadows as Miles McDermott, the host of Family Fakeout
• A.J. Trauth as Alan Twitty, Louis's best friend
• Margo Harshman as Tawny Dean, Louis's girlfriend
• Fred Meyers as Tom Gribalski, Louis's intelligent friend
• Dave Coulier as Lance LeBow, the host of Gotcha
• Keone Young as "Chief Tuka", an actor who portrays an island native leader
• Lauren Frost as Ruby Mendel, one of Ren's friends
• Kenya Williams as Monique Taylor, one of Ren's friends
• Jim Wise as Coach Tugnut, Lawrence Junior High School's gym teacher
• Eric “Ty” Hodges as Larry Beale, Ren's rival classmate
• Walker Howard as "Laylo" / Patrick Green, an actor who portrays an island native
• Josh Keaton as "Mootai" / Jason Holdstead, an actor who portrays an island native
• Kyle Gibson as Gil
• George Anthony Bell as Principal Conrad Wexler, the head of Lawrence Junior High
• Toni Dugan as Keith
• Matthew Yang King as Scott
• Daniele O’Loughlin as Brooke
• Jody Howard as Cynthia Mills

Reception[]

The Even Stevens Movie was the most-watched cable program on June 13, 2003, including dominating among children ages 6–11 and tweens 9–14, and drawing 5.1 million total viewers.^[1]

Home release[]

The Even Stevens Movie was released on DVD and VHS on June 28, 2005 in Region 1 countries.

As of November 12, 2019, the film, along with the series, are available to stream on Disney+

See also[]

• List of American films of 2003

References[]

External links[]

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