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Article: `Little Secrets'.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- August 22, 2002
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A wholesome little drama aimed at the pre- and early-teen crowd, "Little Secrets is set in a frighteningly tidy suburbia of cul de sacs and clipped lawns, courteous neighbors, and kids, kids and more kids.
Emily (Evan Rachel Wood _ who also appears as Al Pacino's daughter in "Simone") is a gifted young violinist who's also got a thriving enterprise going. Once a week she opens her "Secret Keeper" business to the neighborhood, where boys and girls with guilty consciences come to seek counsel. Half pipsqueak psychologist, half pipsqueak priest in her makeshift confessional box, Emily advises, forgives and commiserates. (Sample dilemmas: a boy who's broken a ...