Sing For Your Life

Sing For Your Life is a 2014 American Musical Comedy written by Ewan Leslie, Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smit and directed by Andy Fickman starring Kristin Wiig, Gerard Butler, Ewan McGregor, Nicholas Hoult, Emma Roberts, Emma Stone, Liam Hemsworth, Dave Franco, Jonah Hill, Saorise Ronan, Douglas Booth, Jim Parsons, Taylor Momsen, Kate Mara, Ashanti and Jared Leto. The film was a commercial success and was fairly well received by critics.

It wasn't screened in advance for critics and was jumped straight to a large theatrical release on April 10th, 2014.

The film has since been analled into the allegory of best musical films of the modern age coming aside 2007's Hairspray, Pitch Perfect, Step Up, Honey and Stomp the Yard.

Plot
A former 80's big shot music competition turned parole officer mom Elly Wiggins (Kristen Wiig) is tasked with running a group of delinquet college youths who have all been caught participating in an elaborate prank which involved stealing the college dean's ferrari and a zoo animal.

She is instructed to sign the teens up who had all served in the college's musical for the local national music competition as community service so as they can avoid imprisonement.

Elly originally declines as it a painful stigma to her long gone golden days destroyed before finals by a flaking supporting team.

She also declines on account of her 19 year old daughter who is struggling with school and flunking out of college.

She however comes to accept learning that her daughter is in fact one of the teens who she is tasked with signing up for the national music competition as community service. Her rebellious daughter Dana (Emma Roberts) comes along with an Alex Gordon (Nicholas Hoult) who is a depressive loner with a beautiful voice, Justine Bradley (Emma Roberts) a street punk, Taye Flamboyo (Liam Hemsworth) a hunky Varsity Trackstar, Fred Jones III (Dave Franco) the rich kid prankster, Theodore "Theo" Sinata (Jonah Hill) a party DJ, Ally Swiss (Saorise Ronan) An Angry Irish Girl, Jonah Sincott (Douglas Booth) a romantic, Travers Linderberg (Jim Parsons) a homosexual flairboyant, Alana Drapes (Taylor Momsen) a bottle blonde cheerleader, Lara Bo-Step (Kate Mara) a drama queen and Kiyah Eastweld (Ashanti) a rapper thief.

Elly reaches through to all of them and they all bring forth their amazing voices to the stages spanning from Denver, Colorado to Sun City, Florida and finally Los Angeles, California for the harrowing finals.

They all find themselves along the way and do not persist anymore for the basic participation so as to avoid jail time but rather to win in honor of themselves.

Cast

 * Kristen Wiig as Eleanor "Elly" Wiggins
 * Gerard Butler as Jamieson Gordon
 * Ewan McGregor as Harrison Jules
 * Nicholas Hoult as Alex Gordon/ "The Gordsy Pordsy"
 * Emma Roberts as Dana Wiggins/ "The Big D"
 * Emma Stone as Justine Bradley/ "The Justice"
 * Lucy Punch as Allison Bradley
 * Liam Hemsworth as Taye Flamboyo/ "The Hunk"
 * Dave Franco as Fred Jones III/ "The Third"
 * Jonah Hill as Theodore Patrick Sinata/ "The Demolition"
 * Saorise Ronan as Ally Swiss/ "The Irish Luck"
 * Douglas Booth as Jonah Sincott/ "The Romeo"
 * Jim Parson as Travers Linderberg/ "The Glue"
 * Taylor Momsen as Alana Drapes/ "The Diva"
 * Kate Mara as Lara Bo-Step/ "The Mix"
 * Ashanti as Kiyah Eastweld/ "The R & B"
 * Jared Leto as Benny "Ludacris" Holdsworth