
Emily Lindstrom, 14, is an aspiring concert violinist; she's spending the summer practicing for a big audition while her girlfriends are at camp. She's also got a thriving neighborhood business: for 50 cents, she'll keep your secret. Her mother is very pregnant, and her parents seem more concerned about the new baby than anything Emily cares about. A new family moves in next door; their son, Philip, 12, becomes Emily's friend. Eventually, the weight of Emily's secrets - her o... (Full plot summary below)
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Emily Lindstrom, 14, is an aspiring concert violinist; she's spending the summer practicing for a big audition while her girlfriends are at camp. She's also got a thriving neighborhood business: for 50 cents, she'll keep your secret. Her mother is very pregnant, and her parents seem more concerned about the new baby than anything Emily cares about. A new family moves in next door; their son, Philip, 12, becomes Emily's friend. Eventually, the weight of Emily's secrets - her own, the ones she's keeping professionally, and a secret Philip tells her, send her life temporarily crashing down.
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| Cinema CrazedFelix Vasquez Jr.A very broad annoying and overemotional little drama... |
| Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumThe kids in this syrupy family picture are spunky tykes and the adults are dolts, but Wood is worth watching because she's so clearly ready to play nobody's girl but her own. |
| San Francisco ChronicleJonathan CurielThe plot twists in Little Secrets sustain the movie when it gets a bit too schmaltzy. This excess of cuteness and sentimentality won't be a flaw to moviegoers in the mood for it. |
| Spectrum (St. George, Utah)Bruce BennettFew parents [the kind likely to have made Little Secrets and to whom it seems primarily aimed] will find anything objectionable in this sanitized after-school special-esque of a film, lately that's progress. |
| Internet ReviewsSteve RhodesLittle Secrets is a sweet little movie, and you don't have to keep that a secret. |
| Miami HeraldChristine DolenIt's a beguiling exploration of friendship, trust, truth, insecurity and, yes, secrets. |
| Los Angeles Daily NewsEvan HenersonIt's safe and heart-warming enough that the 15-and-younger set should love it while their parents won't be bored. |
| CitysearchJackie PottsThose who say there are no intelligent PG movies out there ought to hightail it to Little Secrets -- a smart, witty and thoroughly modern yarn. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe film is upbeat, wholesome, chirpy, positive, sunny, cheerful, optimistic and squeaky-clean. It bears so little resemblance to the more complicated worlds of many members of its target audience (girls 4 to 11) that it may work as pure escapism. |
| One Guy's OpinionFrank SwietekSugary sweet, heavily didactic and relentlessly uplifting, it should probably come with a warning that diabetics could be endangered by watching it. |