Little Secrets is a 2001 American family film directed by Blair Treu.
Emily Lindstrom (Evan Rachel Wood) is a 14-year-year old girl who is auditioning for the youth orchestra. Because of this, she chooses to miss out on summer camp. Meanwhile, two brothers named David and Philip (David Gallagher and Michael Angarano) move next door to her, with Philip starting to get a crush on Emily. But after learning about what David had done at tennis camp, Emily's life of keeping secrets starts spiralling out of control and it impacts her audition and her social life.
Little Secrets provides examples of:
- Berserk Button: Emily gets freaked out after Philip tells her about what David at camp.
- Good Parents: Eddie and Caroline Lindstrom.
- Hand Gag: In one of the rough edits of the film
, Jenny gives this to Laurel when the latter thinks that Emily was Eddie and Caroline's biological daughter amid Grace's birth. - Laser-Guided Karma: A posthumous example. After Emily opens up to her friends and family about her adoption, David asks her about the drunk driver. After the incident that took the lives of their biological parents, the driver was incarcerated. Shortly after his release, he got into another accident and he died this time.
- Logo Joke: On some versions of the movie, the TriStar Pictures logo is in double high tone.
- Never Say "Die": Emily comes to terms with her adoption, saying that when she was an infant, her biological parents were "hit head on" by a drunk driver.
- No Antagonist: Aside from the posthumous drunk driver that took the lives of Emily's biological parents, the movie does not feature any antagonistic characters in the present day setting.
- You Owe Me:
- Emily says this to Philip after she kept his broken chess piece in her trunk.
- Philip says this to Emily after he told her what happened to David and why he’s being kicked out of tennis camp.