Status Update(2018)

PG-13
Rated PG-13 for crude and suggestive humor, language, and some teen partying
1h 46m

Release Date: Mar 30, 2018 | Limited

Uprooted by his parents' separation, teenager Kyle Moore is unable to fit into his new hometown until he stumbles upon a magical app that makes his social-media updates come true, changing his entire life.

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Original Release | Mar 30, 2018

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Results

Opening Weekend US & Canada:
$2,205
Total US & Canada:
$4,764
Total International
$411,414
Total Worldwide:
$416,178

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Director & Top Cast

Scott Speer
Director

Markian Tarasiuk
Brian Massey

Other Details

Country of Origin: Canada,United States,China

Language: English

Summaries

Plot Summary

Kyle (Ross Lynch) is a teenager who, after his parents' separation, has to go through a tough move and everything that goes with moving to a new school. There he befriends a boy named Lonnie (Harvey Guillen), but One day when he was walking with Lonnie, the leader of his school's hockey team, Derek (Gregg Sulkin), breaks his phone by smashing it into one of the lockers, so Kyle goes to the mall in his town and a bearded man (Josh Ostrovsky), offers him a new phone with an application called "your universe" and the bearded man tells Kyle that if he writes something on that phone it will come true, to which Kyle thanks him but later that same night, he He writes "my dad and my car arrived from Cali, how crazy" and goes to sleep, the next day he is surprised to see his car.Later Kyle walks at school, talks to Lonnie about the application and sees a billboard for the school choir where he wants to sign up and when he arrives he writes "I am a classically trained singer" but when he gets on stage and starts singing but he doesn't like it to his teacher Mr. Moody (John Michael Higgins) and a girl named Dani (Olivia Holt), she looks at him and is impressed but Kyle returns to the shopping center in his town and Kyle tells him that he had written one thing but another happened so the bearded man tells him that if he writes something, he will never delete it and when he gets home he is surprised to see his dad (Rob Riggle), and his mom (Wendi McLendon-Covey) gets angry. why he is at the house and tells him that if he wants to stay he should get a job, when Kyle finishes dinner he goes to his room and since Mr. Moody didn't like his performance he writes "I sang and danced like Bruno Mars, I'll go with Dani to the Band Slam."The next day in the school cafeteria he starts singing and dancing like Bruno Mars and Dani is impressed, and after his performance Mr. Moody removes Massey (Markian Tarasuik) from the choir, later Kyle, Dani and Lonnie go to a coffee shop and at that moment Massey arrives and asks Kyle to go outside to which Dani objects but Kyle accepts and writes "I fought like Bruce Lee, I finished Brian", and when leaving the parking lot of the coffee shop and then After a fight, Kyle defeats Massey and at dinner Darryl tells Maxie (Brec Bassinger) who looks amazing but Ann gets angry telling her that he wears a dog collar and they argue about his job and Maxie tells Darryl that Kyle got into a fight at school. and Darryl and Anne discuss the fight and Maxie summarizes Kyle's life for them.Kyle goes for a walk with Dani and on the way Kyle asks her what do you want most in the whole world?, to which Dani replies that a Ferris wheel and they spend the night on a Ferris wheel and the next day Next he talks to Lonnie about the app to which Lonnie calls him a liar but then Kyle gives him his skateboard and he writes again "Lonnie is an expert skateboarder" and when they skate through the hallways and the school parking lot but then Derek pulls Lonnie gets off the skateboard and Kyle gets angry and tells him that skating is easy, why doesn't he try it and calls him a coward, but when Kyle writes again, Derek can't skate well and ends up crashing into a trash can.Kyle stays to study at Dani's house and tells her that she is writing a song and Dani sings for Kyle. At school, in Mr. Moody's class while Dani is singing Hallelujah, Kyle tells him about the song Dani wrote and begins to sing, but as he leaves Mr. Moody's room Massey intercepts him and calls them "The Lady and the homeless man" and the school cafeteria talks with Lonnie about putting Derek in his place, when he arrives at Hockey practice he writes again "Today I skated with the Hockey team, I did it like an Olympic medalist", but when he starts The test starts dancing Ballet, but he writes that "he plays just like Wayne Gretzky" and the Hockey teacher calls him Frozen and by humiliating Derek, he becomes the star of the team and then Derek's girlfriend, Charlotte (Courtney Eaton) falls in love with Kyle.The day after the game, Kyle becomes the star of the team and the school and Dani tells him that he missed the morning rehearsal and Kyle apologizes for that and later that same night he goes to the same cafeteria with Lonnie and Kyle talks with Lonnie about meeting her parents on Saturday at a Greek restaurant, since it is her birthday, but at that moment the team along with Charlotte arrive at the cafeteria and Charlotte invites Kyle to Cassie's party, on Saturday exactly on her birthday. from Lonnie, Kyle arrives at Cassie's house and finds her dressed as Native American, and at the same party she meets Charlotte dressed as a Vampire and Derek as a Zombie and warns him that the iron breaks and that all the people will try to submerge his face in ice water and he finds out that Charlotte broke up with him , and at the Greek restaurant Lonnie's parents call him a liar for inventing his friendship with Kyle and he talks to Charlotte and seduces him and kisses him.Dani gets sad and angry because Kyle cheated on her with Charlotte, since she found out on Instagram, and because Dani is angry with him and tries to apologize to Lonnie for what happened and calls it a virus, things go badly for him. Hockey and later goes to dinner at Charlotte's house and during the awkward dinner with Charlotte's parents, but gets angry because Charlotte's dad Mr. Alden (Martin Donovan), who calls him a Hippie and a brute and writes again "I met Charlotte's parents, they loved me" and when Charlotte returns she notices that her parents have changed their attitude towards Kyle but when Charlotte's mother, Katherine Alden (Famke Janssen) asks her to accompany her to the kitchen, she seduces Charlotte. Kyle, forcing him to flee Charlotte's house but breaks her phone, and when he arrives at the mall and looks for the bearded man he can't find him.When he arrives home he finds Maxie crying because his parents were arguing and upon hearing that his mother moved him away from his father because his father was irresponsible, Kyle gets angry and sad about the truth, but to the day Next in Mr. Moody's class while Dani is singing with Kyle, Kyle comments to Mr. Moody that he wants to quit but Dani objects to that and wants to quit herself but in the end Kyle ends up quitting, causing sadness in Mr. Moody, Later that night there is a meeting about the Hockey team's victory to reach the finals of the tournament, but it is interrupted by Massey calling him a fraud and a liar, but he is booed and called an idiot but Kyle tries to tell the truth but They interrupt him and when he sees Dani he tries to apologize, but he can't and Dani calls him a moron and tells him that the song they sang together was after they went to the Ferris wheel and when leaving the parking lot Massey hits him.The next day Anne sees that Kyle is sad and doesn't want to go to school and asks him the reason and Kyle says because he hurt a lot of people and made mistakes so his mom gives Kyle some advice about social media and later at breakfast Darryl is still slacking off and Kyle argues with Darryl because when he moved here he thought they were taking him away from his best friend, because he never loved him and because he wants someone else to stay with them and for Darryl to live his life. and when she leaves her house Maxie apologizes for being a bad sister and then she goes to Lonnie's house and meets Lonnie's parents and emphasizes to them that he is her best friend but when she leaves Lonnie is still angry with Kyle but by playing a trick on him joke Lonnie accepts his apology but when he sees Derek angry, downcast and sad he tries to apologize to him and when he sees a sad Dani singing he decides to help her but when he leaves the hallway he meets Charlotte and asks him why he ignores her to which Kyle replies no. and wishes him good luck in the game.The day of the game arrives and during the first minutes Kyle plays well, but someone from the opposing team breaks Kyle's arm, but when the Hockey coach believes that the game is lost, Derek offers to finish the game and in the Kyle pretended to be hurt and Lonnie helps him get to the presentation with Dani, but at the presentation, Mr. Moody gets nervous and Dani slaps him, when he goes out on stage and starts singing Kyle starts singing with her and then the "your universe" application asks him if he wants to delete his universe, to which Kyle agrees, but when he does, Dani no longer remembers him and everyone congratulates them, but when he leaves the show, Darryl tells him that it was crazy to have seen him sing and play. Hockey but says goodbye to him and his family and the next day Kyle is congratulated by the Hockey team and apologizes to Dani and tells her that she hopes to meet him again but she also says the same thing and hugs her.

Storyline

Forced to move in with his strict mother and brat sister Maxi in Connecticut, relaxed, kind teen Kyle Moore hates leaving behind his cool but penniless dad and Californian surfer lifestyle. To make it worse, his new high-school is the playground of the popular (Black) Widows ice hockey team. Their cocky stars, captain Derek Lowe, Oliver and Cooper don't hesitate to show the new pup his place by painful humiliation. Only generally ignored fat nerd Lonnie Gregory eagerly befriend Kyle, who still manages to interests a nice girl. When his smartphone gets busted by the bullies, a mystery mall booth manager give shim a new one and recommends the 'life-changing' app "You-niverse", which magically makes come true any status message entered. It gives Kyle undreamed opportunities, although he learns the hard way to ponder properly what to wish for, while entering his girl's choir and the bullies' team by impressing the staff in charge. Even bringing his dad and car back proves a shocking eye-opener, so he must also fix newly created problems, which almost seems worse. — KGF Vissers