Clare later rummages through her mom's paintings and sees a picture of the music box. Clare's mom knocks on her bedroom door along with two younger sisters. Nevertheless, Clare's sixth wish is that her mother never committed suicide. Clare recovers the box, but June is injured after falling down a staircase. Furthermore, because June, a friend, has stolen the box, Clare loses her popularity and everything else she wished for. Attempts to destroy the box are unsuccessful. Ryan reveals that after the seventh wish is granted, the music box will claim the soul of the owner.

As a consequence of the wish, Meredith gets stuck in an elevator and, when the cable snaps, falls to her death. Ryan finds Gina's body and confronts Clare about making wishes on the music box, which she denies.Ĭlare makes a fifth wish that she is popular, but Clare is soon unhappy with the consequent attention and that she loses her relationship with her friends. Soon after, Gina deciphers the meaning of the phrase which says 'When the music ends, the blood price is paid.' After she warns Ryan, she dies. Clare's fourth wish is for her father to stop being a dumpster diver and he immediately has a personality shift. Ryan's cousin Gina helps Clare decipher the meaning of the symbols saying that each of the seven wishes upon wished, comes with consequences and that the rules have to be followed. Clare enlists the help of her classmate Ryan Hui to decipher the symbols. Deluca, a friendly neighbor, suffers a fatal accident. Upon hearing the news of his death, Clare then wishes she will be in the will.

Clare realizes that the box grants wishes, but does not understand that her wishes come with consequences.Ĭlare makes a second wish that a popular boy named Paul falls in love with her.

That same day, Clare's dog Max dies in her house's crawlspace after seemingly being eaten alive by rats. Clare deciphers one of the numerous inscriptions on the box as 'Seven Wishes,' and absentmindedly wishes for Darcie, her tormentor and school bully, to 'rot,' at which point Darcie develops necrotizing fasciitis and is admitted into the ICU. Her father, Jonathan, a former musician and compulsive hoarder who dumpster dives as a hobby, finds a Chinese music box and gives it to her as an early birthday gift. Clare Shannon, a seventeen-year-old high school outcast, is haunted by the memory of her mother's suicide that she witnessed as a young child.

Wish upon a star movie plot