14 Movies Starring Evan Rachel Wood

Digging to China

Digging to China

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1998-09-11

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

98 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (2046 Reviews)

Director:

Timothy Hutton

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

10-year-old Harriet dreams of leaving her home, where she doesn't feel she's needed by her mother and sister Gwen. When her mother dies in a car accident, she really starts to make plans for leaving and she finally does so together with her childlike (mentally ill) friend Ricky.

Little Secrets

Little Secrets

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2002-08-23

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

96 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

6.5 (2595 Reviews)

Director:

Blair Treu

Fullplot:

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.

Thirteen

Thirteen

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2003-09-19

Languages:

English, Spanish, Portuguese

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

100 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (63732 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Catherine Hardwicke

Nikki Reed

Fullplot:

At the edge of adolescence, Tracy is a smart straight-A student--if not a little naive (it seems...she smokes and she cuts to alleviate the emotional pain she suffers from having a broken home and hating her mom's boyfriend, Brady.) When she befriends Evie, the most popular and beautiful girl in school, Evie leads Tracy down a path of sex, drugs and petty crime (like stealing money from purses and from stores). As Tracy transforms herself and her identity, her world becomes a boiling, emotional cauldron fueled by new tensions between her and her mother--as well as, teachers and old friends.

The Missing

The Missing

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2003-11-26

Languages:

English, Apache languages, Spanish

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

137 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.5 (26074 Reviews)

Director:

Ron Howard

Cast:

Writer:

Thomas Eidson (novel)

Ken Kaufman (screenplay)

Fullplot:

In 19th-century New Mexico, a father (Tommy Lee Jones) comes back home, hoping to reconcile with his adult daughter Maggie (Cate Blanchett). Maggie's daughter is kidnapped, forcing father and estranged daughter to work together to get her back.

Pretty Persuasion

Pretty Persuasion

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2006-05-25

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

104 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (8383 Reviews)

Director:

Marcos Siega

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Fullplot:

Manipulative high school sophomore Kimberly Joyce leads her friends Brittany Wells and Randa Azzouni in bringing charges of sexual assault against Percy Anderson, their English and drama teacher at an exclusive private school in Beverly Hills. Meanwhile, local reporter Emily Klein, originally assigned to do an insignificant piece on the school, hopes that the scandal will launch her into celebrity in the television news business, while Kimberly's bigoted father, Hank, is concerned primarily with the effect that his daughter's accusations may have on his business.

Down in the Valley

Down in the Valley

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2005-12-09

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

114 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.5 (16288 Reviews)

Director:

David Jacobson

Fullplot:

Tobe is about 16, living with her dad and younger brother in LA's San Fernando Valley. She invites a gas station attendant named Harlan to come to the beach with her and her friends. He's from South Dakota, wears a cowboy hat, talks country, and has been a ranch hand. They have a great time, his simple expressions seem like wisdom, he's attentive and polite, and even though he's more than twice her age, she wants to spend time with him. When her father objects, she rebels. Harlan, meanwhile, thinks she's his soul mate, and he starts making plans to get her away from her father. Worlds are set to collide, but which ones?

Running with Scissors

Running with Scissors

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2006-10-27

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

116 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.2 (19446 Reviews)

Director:

Ryan Murphy

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Ryan Murphy (screenplay)

Augusten Burroughs (book)

Fullplot:

The story of how a boy was abandoned by his mother and how he, later, abandoned her. The year he'll be 14, the parents of Augusten Burroughs (1965- ) divorce, and his mother, who thinks of herself as a fine poet on the verge of fame, delivers him to the eccentric household of her psychiatrist, Dr. Finch. During that year, Augusten avoids school, keeps a journal, and practices cosmetology. His mother's mental illness worsens, he takes an older lover, he finds friendship with Finch's younger daughter, and he's the occasional recipient of gifts from an unlikely benefactor. Can he survive to come of age?

Across the Universe

Across the Universe

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2007-10-12

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, UK

Runtime:

133 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (87556 Reviews)

Director:

Julie Taymor

Cast:

Writer:

Dick Clement (screenplay)

Ian La Frenais (screenplay)

Julie Taymor (story)

Dick Clement (story)

Ian La Frenais (story)

Fullplot:

Across The Universe is a fictional love story set in the 1960s amid the turbulent years of anti-war protest, the struggle for free speech and civil rights, mind exploration and rock and roll. At once gritty, whimsical and highly theatrical, the story moves from high schools and universities in Massachusetts, Princeton and Ohio to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the Detroit riots, Vietnam and the dockyards of Liverpool. A combination of live action and animation, the film is paired with many songs by The Beatles that defined the time.

The Life Before Her Eyes

The Life Before Her Eyes

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2008-09-05

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

90 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (11591 Reviews)

Director:

Vadim Perelman

Cast:

Writer:

Laura Kasischke (novel)

Emil Stern (screenplay)

Fullplot:

A dramatic thriller about Diana, a suburban wife and mother who begins to question her seemingly perfect life--and perhaps her sanity--on the 15th anniversary of a tragic high school shooting. In flashbacks, Diana is a vibrant high schooler who, with her shy best friend Maureen, plot typical teenage strategies--cutting class,fantasizing about boys--and vow to leave their sleepy suburb at the first opportunity. The older Diana, however, is haunted by the increasingly strained relationship she had with Maureen as day of the school shooting approached. These memories disrupt the idyllic life she's now leading with her professor husband Paul and their young daughter Emma. As older Diana's life begins to unravel and younger Diana gets closer and closer to the fatal day, a deeper mystery slowly unravels.

The Conspirator

The Conspirator

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2011-04-15

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

122 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

(22470 Reviews)

Director:

Robert Redford

Cast:

Writer:

James D. Solomon

James D. Solomon (story)

Gregory Bernstein (story)

Fullplot:

In the wake of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, seven men and one woman are arrested and charged with conspiring to kill the President, the Vice-President, and the Secretary of State. The lone woman charged, Mary Surratt, 42, owns a boarding house where John Wilkes Booth and others met and planned the simultaneous attacks. Against the ominous back-drop of post-Civil War Washington, newly-minted lawyer, Frederick Aiken, a 28-year-old Union war-hero, reluctantly agrees to defend Surratt before a military tribunal. As the trial unfolds, Aiken realizes his client may be innocent and that she is being used as bait and hostage in order to capture the only conspirator to have escaped a massive manhunt, her own son.

The Wrestler

The Wrestler

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2009-01-30

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, France

Runtime:

109 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.9 (240735 Reviews)

Genres:

DramaSport

Fullplot:

This is a drama about an aging professional wrestler, decades past his prime, who now barely gets by working small wrestling shows in VFW halls and as a part-time grocery store employee. As he faces health problems that may end his wrestling career for good he attempts to come to terms with his life outside the ring: by working full time at the grocery store, trying to reconcile with the daughter he abandoned in childhood and forming a closer bond with a stripper he has romantic feelings for. He struggles with his new life and an offer of a high-profile rematch with his 1980s arch-nemesis, The Ayatollah, which may be his ticket back to stardom.

Charlie Countryman

Charlie Countryman

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2013-09-13

Languages:

English, Romanian

Countries:

Romania, USA

Runtime:

103 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (18579 Reviews)

Director:

Fredrik Bond

Fullplot:

While traveling abroad, a guy falls for a Romanian beauty whose unreachable heart has its origins in her violent, charismatic ex.

Barefoot

Barefoot

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2014-09-04

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

90 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (13270 Reviews)

Director:

Andrew Fleming

Fullplot:

The "black sheep" son of a wealthy family meets a young psychiatric patient who's been raised in isolation her entire life. He takes the naive young woman home for his brother's wedding to convince his family that he's finally straightened out his life. She impresses the family with her genuine, if unstable charm. Along the way they fall into an improbable love

Barefoot

Barefoot

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2014-09-04

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

90 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (13753 Reviews)

Director:

Andrew Fleming

Fullplot:

The "black sheep" son of a wealthy family meets a young psychiatric patient who's been raised in isolation her entire life. He takes the naive young woman home for his brother's wedding to convince his family that he's finally straightened out his life. She impresses the family with her genuine, if unstable charm. Along the way they fall into an improbable love

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