Little Secrets (2001)

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Thanks for the memories!

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

I've just watched this movie as it was shown this afternoon on TV, and boy I was very surprised.There are so many movies in this kind of young-teen-family genre, but this is definitely one of the best. The underlying message of the movie was a basic 'don't keep secrets from your friends' in a very interesting way.Everything was very true to life (except for the dinosaur bones maybe!) -- for example, when Phillip's older brother had been drinking, and been in the car with a friend who was too drunk to drive. Although he was only fourteen, the fact is that fourteen year olds do do that sort of thing -- whether it's nice or not, or whether it's right or not.It was also good the way they had that massive twist towards the end, yet everything worked out very well in the end without being corny.This is the sort of movie that isn't ground-breaking cinema (and doesn't try to be) but still is quite an entertaining way to spend an hour and a half.

I caught this movie on TV and at first I thought it was a movie I had seen before but I soon realized it was a remake. I did not think it was as good as the original. The script has been rewritten for younger audiences and the characters were younger. In the original I think it starts off on her 18th birthday. Due to the younger characters they toned down the romantic plot to more of a teenage puppy love. Also they took out a lot of the quirkiness of the original character who was more of an adventurous tom boy that liked to pretend she was Huidini.If you like this movie I recommend watching the original.The original is "Samantha" (1992) IMDb# tt0102832

Hi, I'm Micah Schow and I played Gregory on Little Secrets, I figured it was only fair if I were to write a review for it... -_-' This movie is a good movie for an audience of 10 and up, of course that is only of my recommendation. I found this movie good for a teenager who is looking for a love movie with a group their age, even though the Hollywood ages for characters changes a good extent. It is funny and it has good characters. This movie has a good original soundtrack to go with it.Since this movie is full of first-time child actors you cant expect everyone to have the greatest acting skills in America. Even though it has a very original, peaceful, relaxing soundtrack, it gets stuck in your head... a lot.Be looking for Little Secrets on Disney channel around July - August '06, thank you for reading my review, Micah Schow

David Lynch's "Blue Velvet" starts with some great images: ideal suburbia - kids crossing the street, firemen waving as they go down the road on their truck, and a man watering his garden. Then the guy has a stroke and collapses. We are then treated to the best shot of the film: his dog playfully jumping around the squirting hose he continues to hold as a toddler ambles toward him. Then the camera moves down for a macro shot of the insect world in his lawn, introducing the film's theme that there is a secret and much nastier world just below the surface of "Norman Rockwell" suburbia.In "Little Secrets", Emily runs a business which keeps all the neighborhood secrets in a safe place for a fee. It takes Lynch's dark theme and turns it into a lesson about friendship and trust. Apparently this thematic content is the reason the film was given a PG rating, although it is hard to imagine that anyone would think this film required "parental guidance".The film features a decent performance from Evan Rachel Wood (Emily), although there is nothing here that would lead anyone to think she was capable of her breakout performance in "Thirteen". Michael Angarano (Phillip) is fantastic opposite Wood and they have a nice chemistry. David Gallagher does a good job in a small role that is unnecessarily tacked onto the story, presumably to capitalize on his "7th Heaven" popularly. Blair Treu, the film's director, should have recognized in mid-production that a better resolution would have been the pairing of Emily and Phillip rather than Emily and David. It was an easy fix, minor rewrites and re-shooting a couple scenes to make Phillip the same age as Emily, they certainly look the same age. Gallagher's drawing power did not save the production commercially (it tanked big time at the box office) so they ruined the ending for nothing.The director of photography used a lot of great crane shots and creative camera angles but overall the the shots should have been tighter (i.e. closer shots of the faces and eyes). One exception was Caitlin E. J. Meyer (Isabelle) who the camera loves and who steals her scenes as the nine-year old younger sister of Emily's best friend. Isabelle has the movie's best line "Life is complicated when you look like Claudia Schiffer".This is a very original premise, a well-conceived and rather profound story. It has one especially great scene when the web of secrets starts to crumble. First Emily is angry at David because he was caught drinking which was his secret, making David angry at Phillip for telling Emily his secret, which makes Phillip angry at Emily for telling David that he had told her David's secret.