Little Secrets
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| 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 | TriStar Pictures 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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[edit] Tagline
- Can you keep a SECRET?
[edit] Synopsis
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 Philip (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. Philip 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 Philip 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. Meanwhile, as Philip is also falling for Emily, Philip's brother David enters the picture. Emily starts to lose her secret-keeping talent as she falls for David. David also begins falling for Emily -- which makes Philip jealous.
During the pre-birth baby shower, Emily tumbles from a rooftop and breaks her neck, 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 Philip return all of the paper bags to her clients. To thank Philip, 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. That interview has Evan saying in the beginning, "I'm Evan Rachel Wood and I'm 15 and I play Emily in Little Secrets."
[edit] Little Secrets on Disney Channel
Disney Channel, which has aired films directed by Blair Treu including Wish Upon a Star and The Paper Brigade, tried as many times to promote Little Secrets which was originally scheduled for Monday, April 4, 2005, but it actually made its free-TV premiere on Hallmark Channel on Saturday, April 15, 2006. It is largest film that has ever preempted by Disney Channel, and one of the two non-Disney related films that got preempted before it even premiered, the other being The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. But as requested, Disney Channel will try sometime in 2008 to air it. For Disney Channel, Little Secrets will be:
The first time Evan Rachel Wood has ever made a Disney Channel appearance.
The first of many non-Disney films which were preempted by Disney Channel.
