Little Secrets

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Little Secrets

Directed by	Blair Treu
Produced by	Jessica Barondes Don Schain Blair Treu
Written by	Jessica Barondes
Starring	Evan Rachel Wood Michael Angarano David Gallagher Vivica A. Fox
Music by	Sam Cardon
Distributed by	Columbia TriStar IDP Distribution
Release date(s)	October 2001
Running time	96 minutes
Language	English
Budget	$2,500,000 USD
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Little Secrets is an independent film starring Evan Rachel Wood, Michael Angarano and David Gallagher. It premiered in the Heartland Film Festival in October 2001, and made its limited theatrical release on 23 August 2002.

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3 Little Secrets on Disney Channel
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[edit] Tagline

Can you keep a SECRET?

[edit] Synopsis

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

An aspiring 14-year-old concert violinist named Emily Lindstrom (played by Wood) spends her summer practicing for an audition to get into the prestigious San Francisco Youth Orchestra while her friends go off to camp. She also runs a secret-keeping business, in which other children give her fifty cents to tell her a secret, which she promises to keep; this is a talent that she is normally very good at. Meanwhile, her parents are expecting another child and seem to care more about it than Emily.

New neighbors move in next door, including Phillip (played by Angarano). During the move, he accidentally breaks a valued chess piece and is caught by Emily as he attempts to bury it in the front garden. Phillip pays Emily fifty cents to keep his deed a secret, and to hide the piece in her treasure trunk (along with other broken property from her other clients, in paper bags labeled with their names).

When Phillip decides to join Emily in an afternoon tea session using her family's expensive china, they accidentally break one of the teacups. Faced with the challenge of keeping her own secret and to have someone else know about it, Emily starts to lose her secret-keeping talent as she falls for Phillip. Meanwhile, as Phillip is also falling for Emily, Phillip's brother David enters the picture. David also begins falling for Emily -- which makes Phillip jealous.

During the pre-birth baby shower, Emily tumbles from a rooftop and is injured, necessitating a trip to the hospital. While Emily is at the hospital, her mother gives birth to her sister. After Emily is released from the hospital, she and Phillip return all of the paper bags to her clients. To thank Phillip, Emily kisses him on the cheek. But then David appears, and Emily kisses David on the lips.

The film made its TV premiere on the channel now known as Encore Wam on September 5, 2003. After the film premiered, Evan Rachel Wood, the star of the film, who also played Jessie Sammler on ABC's Once and Again, told the story behind the movie in a 3-minute interview for WAM! entitled Evan Rachel Wood on Little Secrets.

[edit] Little Secrets on Disney Channel

The film originally made its free-TV premiere on Disney Channel on Monday, April 4, 2005 at 8PM/7C, but it was replaced by Toothless, and the movie premiered on Hallmark Channel a year later, on Saturday, April 15, 2006 at 11AM/10C. Also, the film originally premiered on Disney Channel on Saturday, January 27, 2007 at 9PM/8C with an encore presentation on Sunday, January 28, 2007 at 1PM/12C, but both airings were preempted as well. But as requested, Disney Channel, which owned the Leucadia Film Corporation film rights including Wish Upon a Star and The Paper Brigade for many years, might finally own the rights to Little Secrets beginning in 2007.