Stacey's always loved movies — and now she's making one! With the cameras rolling, she must interview all of her best friends ... and worst enemies. She's finding out all sorts of interesting secrets — including something that Mary Anne doesn't want anyone else to know. Now Stacey has to decide which comes first — her film or her friendship.
America's Funniest Home Videos seems to inspire Kristy's group
Einstein's theory of relativity
Oprah
Continuity and Inconsistencies[]
Continuity
Stacey recalls her parents divorce in chapter 12 and remembers them yelling at each other.
Inconsistencies
Technically Kristy has seen Alan's serious side before, since they went on a few dates in the earlier books. However, this is never mentioned in the book.
Ann M. Martin's Dear Reader Letter[]
In Stacey’s Movie, Stacey and her classmates have a chance to make a movie of their own using a video camera. What a great project. When I was Stacey’s age, videos and video cameras didn’t even exist! I saw my very first movie when I was five years old. My dad took me to the Garden Theater in Princeton, NJ, to see Swiss Family Robinson. My ticket cost fifty cents. My dad told me that the first movie he ever saw at the Garden, sixteen years earlier, cost him a nickel.
The year that I saw that first movie was 1960. In 1960, you couldn’t go to a store and buy or rent a movie to watch on your television. You had to go to a theater. The first movie I ever saw more than once was The Sound of Music. Not long after that, I saw Mary Poppins four times — so you can tell how much I liked that movie! As I grew older, I began to watch scarier movies. By the time I was about thirteen, one of my favorite movies was Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds. My friend Beth liked it too. We tried to time our sleepovers, which were usually held at Beth’s house, for nights when The Birds was going to play on TV. Now that I’m an adult, I still love going to the movie theater, but renting a movie to watch at home is a lot of fun too. If I were a student at SMS, I would love Stacey’s Short Takes class!
Trivia[]
Mary Anne sometimes hates her mother for dying.
Stacey dreams about being famous in the first chapter but never as a model or an actress.
It's mentioned that Erica and Emily are friends in this book.
Emily thinks she can pull off playing a geek.
Stacey first writes a script inspired by the Twilight Zone.
Mrs. Stevenson gets up at five a.m. every day.
Stacey has been thinking about going to school to be an engineer.
Mrs. Pike gets her hair done.
When Emily says "once Mary Anne agreed to be interviewed she gave up the right to control the result" is wrong. Mary Anne had the right to say no to being filmed even after it was done.
This is the last Stacey book in the main series.
The interviews in Stacey's documentary includes:
Alan feels like no one takes hims seriously.
Erica was afraid to talk to the camera and gave little information.
Cokie asks to be in Stacey's movie and talked about middle school cliques.
Claudia talked about the arts program and how competitive school is.
Abby feels like she's over booked which eventually leads to her leaving the BSC in Everything Changes. She felt stressed with all her after school activities.
Jessi says she feels like the BSC gets bored of her talking about dance and feels like a minority in Stoneybrook feeling more relaxed with her Dance New York class.
