Article: Jena Malone: Emancipated at 15, can she do the same for the movies?(Brief Article)

Two films from last fall and one to come this spring make Jena Malone the movies' current go-to girl for teen angst. In last year's Donnie Darko and Life as a House, and in the upcoming The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys-a charming '70s period piece interlaced with thrilling animation from Todd McFarlane-she's thrice played the girl next door to the troubled boy, and thrice been the inspiration that's brightened his dark soul, at the same time hinting at a razor-sharp edge of her own. That side of Malone the actress, one gets the feeling, is culled from Malone the person, who at 17 wears a badge of independence across her chest the way other girls her age might wear a high ...

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