Beauty & The Briefcase Bombs

Now don't get me wrong, as a Disney-lover, I am in love with Hilary Duff. I think she's the only former Disney starlet who hasn't had coke stuck in her nose in photographs nor has she flashed her private parts to paparazzi everywhere when exiting a car. But, when your latest movie goes straight to TV, you know your career is in deep shit.

It seems that for some reason, former Disney stars were only at their prime time of stardom when they were on Disney. For Hilary Duff, that was Lizzie McGuire. After the show ran for four years, Hilary Duff became a household name and still is, but has currently been falling off the radar slowly while being replaced by Demi Lovato, Selena Gomez and Miley Cyrus.

The last time Duff was in a theatrical movie was with Cheaper By The Dozen 2, in which she was merely a minor character. Although Duff has also sold over millions of dollars and as her own fashion line, her acting career has slowly began to slip away.

Beauty & The Briefcase premiered on ABC Family last Sunday, April 18th. The ratings were so-so and weren't that surprising considering the lack of promotion of the movie. I personally forgot it was even premiering that night so I caught it this past weekend. To be completely honest, the movie was horrendous. Duff plays a freelancer for Cosmopolitan and has to go undercover in the business world to fall in love with a man in a suit. The storyline is completely cheesy and utterly unrealistic, especially when Duff's character enters the business world and is asked out by multiple men every day she's there. Like that happens to every woman, I'm so sure.

I was really pulling for Duff to shine in this movie, and while her acting could be classified as OK, the rest of the movie pulled her and her career down that much further. Duff really needs to come out with a hit theatrical movie sometime soon to secure her spot as Hollywood teen-queen actress.