Movie Type: Family-Oriented Adventure, Family-Oriented Comedy
Themes: Stranded, Nightmare Vacations
Main Cast: Christy Romano, Shia LaBeouf, Donna Pescow, Tom Virtue, Nick Spano
Release Year: 2003
Country: US
Run Time: 90 minutes
Plot
Based on the popular (and recently canceled) Disney Channel sitcom Even Stevens, this made-for-TV movie was filmed in 2002 under the title The Stevens Get Even. On this occasion, the Sacramento-based Stevens family is reeling from a succession of setbacks, not least of which is the breakup of the romance between teenaged daughter Ren Stevens (Christy Romano) and her boyfriend -- a disaster largely brought about when Ren's pesky kid brother, Louis (Shia LaBeouf), sabotages Ren's junior-high graduation. At their most vulnerable, the kids' parents Eileen (Donna Pescow) and Steve (Tom Virtue) are highly receptive to fast-talking vacation agent Miles McDermott (Tim Meadows), who sells the family an inexpensive trip to an island paradise. En route, the Stevens' plane crashes on a seemingly uncharted isle, forcing the family, and the other passengers, to fend for themselves. What nobody but the duplicitous McDermott knows is that the crash was carefully rigged, so that the Stevens would be unwitting contestants on a Survivor-like TV reality series. In addition to the aforementioned Romano, LaBeouf, Pescow, and Tom Virtue, other carryovers from the original sitcom include Nick Spano as Donnie Stevens and Steven Anthony Lawrence as the family's wacky next-door neighbor, Beans. Filmed on location in Hawaii, The Even Stevens Movie made its Disney Channel debut on June 13, 2003. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Tim Meadows - Miles McDermott; Jim Wise - Coach Terry Tugnut; Margo Harshman - Tawny Dean; Andrew James Trauth - Alan Twitty; Lauren Frost - Ruby Mendel; Steven Anthony Lawrence - Bernard "Beans" Aranguren; Fredricka Meyers - Thomas "Tom" L. Gribalski; Eric "Ty" Hodges II - Lawrence Anthony "Larry" Beale; Dave Coulier - Lance LeBow
Credit
Sean McNamara - Director, Sean McNamara - Executive Producer, David Brookwell - Executive Producer, Dean Rinsler - Executive Producer, Marc Warren - Executive Producer, Jim Wise - Composer (Music Score), Christian Sebaldt - Cinematographer, David Grace - Producer, Stacey Kosier Box - Producer, Marc Warren - Teleplay By
The Even Stevens Movie is a 2003American family comedy film that debuted on the Disney Channel. The film is based upon the Disney Channel show Even Stevens. The film served as the series finale of the series.
The Stevens family are tricked into going on a "vacation" which turns out to be the set of a new realitytv show called Family Fake Out, which all of their hometown friends are watching them on back in Sacramento.
When they first arrived on the island, Louis was tricked into destroying the house they were meant to live in, thus making the islanders shun them and forcing the Stevens to live on their own. The family eventually separates into two groups pitted against each other.
Eventually, Louis' friends Twitty and Tawny make their way to the island, to rescue the Stevens and (in Twitty's case) to make up for betraying them, as he was the one who sold the family out to the show. Twitty is caught by the Family Fake-Out staff though he manages to escape and shuts down the equipment monitoring the Stevens' groups. Meanwhile, Donnie (the oldest Stevens' son) finds Tawny (although suffering from a littlt bit of amnesia,via getting hit in the head by a coconut upon her arrival), and the newly-reconstituted family finally comes together and learns the truth. They unite with Twitty to stop Ren from killing Louis, because she believes he sold her and her boyfriend out. Ren corners him on a cliff, and despite the protests of the family and Miles McDermot, the show's host who tells her the truth, she pushes him off to his apparent death. Much to the viewers shock.
As Miles breaks down in guilt, a helicopter from another reality show called Gotcha (a show that Miles was the a producer for before he was fired) appears and reveals that Louis is safe and that the Stevens family had tricked Miles - Louis had fallen into a net held by Tawny and Twitty. The family had managed to get to Ren in time and she and Louis teamed up together to get revenge on Miles for his actions.
Later the family returns home and Ren, following Louis' advice, starts dating the actor who played the part of the boy she'd liked on the island. The film concludes with a voiceover by Beans explaining what happened to everyone afterwards, (ie. Donnie attending college, Steve returning to work) as Beans pops up at the Stevens' dinner to disrupt it yet again.
