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  • Elijah Wood speaks out - 30 November 2006
    Elijah Wood has spoken out about the recent decision not to use Peter Jackson as director on the film adaptation of The Hobbit.-New Line, the production company behind the Lord of the Rings films and the proposed prequels, told the director of the trilogy that his se


  • Penguins take Hollywood - 18 November 2005
    the animated comedy Happy Feet. - -Actors that have given their voices to the cartoon penguins include Lord Of The Rings star Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, X-Men's Hugh Jackman and Moulin Rouge actress Nicole Kidman.- -Happy Feet is set in a world where penguins fin

Elijah Wood - what members say


  • Everything Is Illuminated
  • Everything Is Illuminated review by misspurple from Darwen, England
    Rated - 3.0 stars Strange but engrossing 4 May 2006
    ...Must be the strangest film Ive seen this year. Elijah Wood plays a very solumn young man who travels abroad to thank the girl who saved his grandfather in the war. But he ...   Read customer review
  • Radio Flyer
  • Radio Flyer review by A customer from Surrey, England
    Rated - 5.0 stars Powered by imagination 18 February 2006
    ...ugh the abuse it not directly shown, the effects are still quite hard hitting. Elijah Wood won a Young Artist Award for this film 'Best Young Actor Starring in a Motion P...   Read customer review

Elijah Wood - filmography


  • Maniac (2013)
    Starring: Elijah Wood,  America Olivo,  Nora Arnezeder
    Director: Franck Khalfoun
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    From the minds that reimagined THE HILLS HAVE EYES and PIRANHA for the 21st century come a stunning new vision of terror, based on the acclaimed genre classic. Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the streets, a serial killer with a dark and depraved m.o. is back and on the prowl. Frank (..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 23 members
    Due for release on 1st July 2013
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  • Maniac - Blu-ray (2013)
    Starring: Elijah Wood,  America Olivo,  Nora Arnezeder
    Director: Franck Khalfoun
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    From the minds that reimagined THE HILLS HAVE EYES and PIRANHA for the 21st century come a stunning new vision of terror, based on the acclaimed genre classic. Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the streets, a serial killer with a dark and depraved m.o. is back and on the prowl. Frank (..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 4 members
    Due for release on 1st July 2013
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  • Treasure Island on DVD (2012)
    Starring: Elijah Wood,  Shaun Parks,  Rupert Penry-Jones
    Director: Steve Barron
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Eddie Izzard stars as Long John Silver in this TV adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic adventure novel. Young Jim Hawkins (Toby Regbo) finds himself set for adventure on the high seas when he is entrusted with a treasure map by ailing pirate Billy Bones (David Harewood).The map shows the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 2,643 members
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  • Treasure Island - Blu-ray (2012)
    Starring: Elijah Wood,  Shaun Parks,  Rupert Penry-Jones
    Director: Steve Barron
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Eddie Izzard stars as Long John Silver in this TV adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic adventure novel. Young Jim Hawkins (Toby Regbo) finds himself set for adventure on the high seas when he is entrusted with a treasure map by ailing pirate Billy Bones (David Harewood).The map shows the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 1,249 member
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  • Happy Feet 2 - 3D Blu-ray (2011)
    Starring: Elijah Wood,  Pink,  Elizabeth Daily
    Director: George Miller
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Mumble the penguin has a problem: his son Erik, who is reluctant to dance, encounters The Mighty Sven, a penguin who can fly! Things get worse for Mumble when the world is shaken by powerful forces, causing him to brings together the penguin nations and their allies to set things right.
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 491 members
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  • Wilfred - Series 1 - Complete on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Elijah Wood,  Cindy Waddingham,  Jason Gann
    Director: Tony Rogers
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    All 13 episodes from the first series of the US comedy about Ryan (Elijah Wood), a depressed ex-lawyer who receives life advice from his neighbour's dog. Whereas everyone around him sees a normal dog, to Ryan, 'Wilfred' (Jason Gann) is a crudely free-thinking, pot-smoking, Australian in a dog suit. ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 157 members
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  • Happy Feet 2 on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Elijah Wood,  Pink,  Elizabeth Daily
    Director: George Miller
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    Mumble the penguin has a problem: his son Erik, who is reluctant to dance, encounters The Mighty Sven, a penguin who can fly! Things get worse for Mumble when the world is shaken by powerful forces, causing him to brings together the penguin nations and their allies to set things right.
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 4,785 members
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  • Happy Feet 2 - Blu-ray (2011)
    Starring: Elijah Wood,  Pink,  Elizabeth Daily
    Director: George Miller
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    Mumble the penguin has a problem: his son Erik, who is reluctant to dance, encounters The Mighty Sven, a penguin who can fly! Things get worse for Mumble when the world is shaken by powerful forces, causing him to brings together the penguin nations and their allies to set things right.
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 1,609 member
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  • The Romantics on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Katie Holmes,  Josh Duhamel,  Anna Paquin
    Director: Galt Niederhoffer
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Romantic comedy written and directed by Galt Niederhoffer. A group of college friends reunite for the wedding of Lila (Anna Paquin) and Tom (Josh Duhamel), but emotions begin to get in the way when Lila grows weary of Laura (Katie Holmes), her maid of honor, who was once romantically involved with ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 591 members
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  • 9 on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Elijah Wood,  Jennifer Connelly,  Martin Landau
    Director: Shane Acker
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Animated, action-packed fantasy adventure set in a post-apocalyptic future where the human race has been destroyed by machines which they themselves created. All that exists, aside from a number of the machines, is a group of sapient rag dolls brought to life by a scientist in the final days of ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 1,150 member
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  • Day Zero on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Elijah Wood,  Chris Klein,  Jon Bernthal
    Director: Bryan Gunnar Cole
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    The U.S. military draft is back. You have thirty days to report... DAY ZERO follows the lives of three best friends in New York City who have thirty days to come to terms with their fate - the draft is back and they've been called to serve. Dixon, Rifkin and Feller grew up together in New York. ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 181 members
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  • Happy Feet - Blu-ray (2006)
    Starring: Brittany Murphy,  Elijah Wood,  Hugh Jackman
    Director: George Miller
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    Animated comedy featuring the voices of Elijah Wood, Robin Williams and Brittany Murphy. Emperor penguins have lived for centuries with one simple goal in life: to find their soulmates through their own unique heart song. Mumble (Elijah Wood), son of Memphis (Hugh Jackman) and Norma Jean (Nicole ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 2,579 members
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  • Happy Feet on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Brittany Murphy,  Elijah Wood,  Hugh Jackman
    Director: George Miller
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Animated comedy featuring the voices of Elijah Wood, Robin Williams and Brittany Murphy. Emperor penguins have lived for centuries with one simple goal in life: to find their soulmates through their own unique heart song. Mumble (Elijah Wood), son of Memphis (Hugh Jackman) and Norma Jean (Nicole ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 40,357 members
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  • I'm Still Here on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Ryan Gosling,  Kate Hudson,  Oliver Hudson
    Director: Lauren Lazin
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    Documentary based around a montage of archival film, personal photos and text, drawings and readings from the real-life diaries of young people who witnessed the horrors of the Holocaust first-hand. Joaquin Phoenix, Elijah Wood and Kate Hudson are among the actors who read from the journals.
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  • Sin City on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Brittany Murphy,  Elijah Wood,  Bruce Willis
    Director: Frank Miller,  Quentin Tarant,  Robert Rodriguez
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Adaptation of the award-winning comic series created by Frank Miller. Interweaving multiple storylines from the series' history, the film paints a picture of the ultimate town through the eyes of its roughest characters. There's the street thug Marv (Mickey Rourke), whose desperate quest to find ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 114,278 members
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  • Everything Is Illuminated (2005)
    Starring: Elijah Wood,  Laryssa Lauret,  Boris Leskin
    Director: Liev Schrieber
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Tale of a young man's quest to find the woman who saved his grandfather in a small Ukrainian town that was wiped off the map by the Nazi invasion. What starts out as a journey to piece together one family's story under the most absurd circumstances turns into a surprisingly meaningful journey with ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 13,949 members
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  • Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Jim Carrey,  Elijah Wood,  Kate Winslet
    Director: Michel Gondry
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Charlie Kaufman, writer of the cult film 'Being John Malkovich', returns with another mind-bendingly inventive and unconventional plotline, this time driving a tender romantic comedy. Jim Carrey stars as Joel, a shy oddball who is stunned to discover that his longterm girlfriend Clementine (Kate ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 100,370 members
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  • The Adventures of Tom Thumb and Thumbelina (2002)
    Starring: Elijah Wood,  Rachel Griffiths,  Jennifer Love Hewitt
    Director: Glenn Chaika
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    Tom must help Thumbelina escape from the Mole King's underground lair after the King kidnaps her and claims her as his wife. Thumbelina, however, already has escape plans of her own and the two friends find excitement all around them as they search for family and others like them.
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 1,226 member
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  • Ash Wednesday on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Brian Burns,  Vincent Rubino,  Jimmy Cummings
    Director: Edward Burns
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Ash Wednesday, 1983. Hell's Kitchen, New York. A symbolic day for Francis Sullivan, an ex-enforcer for the Irish gangs that rule the West Side. Rumours are flying that Francis's younger brother Sean presumed dead for three years, has reappeared.
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 802 members
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  • All I Want on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Elijah Wood,  Chris William Martin,  Deborah Harry
    Director: Jeffrey Porter
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Jones Dillon (Elijah Wood) is a young writer living on his own for the first time. Enrolled in college, he soon ditches his dorm and his classes in favour of an apartment in an old building in the city. He proceeds to try and lose his virginity while searching for the father he has never met.
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 1,150 member
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  • Black And White on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Elijah Wood,  Ben Stiller,  Method Man
    Director: James Toback
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    When high school hipster Charlie and her friends start hanging out with Harlem's aspiring rap artist Rich Bower and his group, the American Cream Team, each faction starts to ponder the other's true motivation. Fascinated by this collision of cultures, documentary filmmaker and former rich girl ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 950 members
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  • Deep Impact - Blu-ray (1998)
    Starring: Elijah Wood,  Morgan Freeman,  Robert Duvall
    Director: Mimi Leder
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    A year after a comet is discovered by 14-year-old amateur astronomer Leo Biederman (Elijah Wood), it is announced that the object's trajectory is leading it on a collision course with Earth. American President Tom Beck (Morgan Freeman) calls for calm while experienced astronaut Spurgeon Tanner (..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 891 members
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  • The Faculty - Blu-ray (1998)
    Starring: Clea Duvall,  Laura Harris,  Josh Hartnett
    Director: Robert Rodriguez
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    This teen horror film comes from the writer of 'Scream' and 'Scream 2'. Strange things seem to be happening around Herrington High School and a group of pupils confirm what every teenager secretly knows - that their teacher are parasites from another planet. An unlikely group of nerds, jocks and ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 380 members
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  • The Faculty on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Clea Duvall,  Laura Harris,  Josh Hartnett
    Director: Robert Rodriguez
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    This teen horror film comes from the writer of 'Scream' and 'Scream 2'. Strange things seem to be happening around Herrington High School and a group of pupils confirm what every teenager secretly knows - that their teacher are parasites from another planet. An unlikely group of nerds, jocks and ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 6,358 members
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  • Deep Impact on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Elijah Wood,  Morgan Freeman,  Robert Duvall
    Director: Mimi Leder
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    A year after a comet is discovered by 14-year-old amateur astronomer Leo Biederman (Elijah Wood), it is announced that the object's trajectory is leading it on a collision course with Earth. American President Tom Beck (Morgan Freeman) calls for calm while experienced astronaut Spurgeon Tanner (..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 9,327 members
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  • The Ice Storm on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Elijah Wood,  Katie Holmes,  David Krumholtz
    Director: Ang Lee
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Set on Thanksgiving weekend of 1973, The Ice Storm looks into the lives of a wealthy Connecticut family who are calm and civil on the outside, but whose lives are quietly falling into chaos. Sixteen-year-old Paul Hood (Tobey Maguire) is home for the holidays from prep school; he'd just as soon have ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 9,150 members
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  • Flipper on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Paul Hogan,  Elijah Wood,  Chelsea Field
    Director: Alan Shapiro
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Rebellious teenager Sandy Ricks (Elijah Wood) is sent to spend the summer with his irresponsible but well-meaning uncle Porter (Paul Hogan). Upset because he is going to miss a Red Hot Chili Peppers concert, Sandy soon finds a friend in a dolphin he names Flipper. Together they stumble upon toxic ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 1,102 member
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  • Flipper - Blu-ray (1996)
    Starring: Paul Hogan,  Elijah Wood,  Chelsea Field
    Director: Alan Shapiro
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Rebellious teenager Sandy Ricks (Elijah Wood) is sent to spend the summer with his irresponsible but well-meaning uncle Porter (Paul Hogan). Upset because he is going to miss a Red Hot Chili Peppers concert, Sandy soon finds a friend in a dolphin he names Flipper. Together they stumble upon toxic ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 15 members
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  • North (1994)
    Starring: Elijah Wood,  Jason Alexander,  Julia Louis-Dreyfus
    Director: Rob Reiner
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    North (Elijah Wood) divorces his biological parents and sets out to scour the earth for the ideal set of replacements. To help him along the way, a confidante (Bruce Willis) advises and abets the search for North's elusive "perfect" adoptive parents.
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 25 members
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  • The War (1994)
    Starring: Lexi Randall,  Elijah Wood,  Christine Baranski
    Director: Jon Avnet
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Mississippi, 1970. Stephen Simmons (Kevin Costner) is a marine struggling to put his life back together after a traumatic tour of duty in Vietnam. Meanwhile, his two children - Stu (Elijah Wood) and Lidia (Lexi Randall) - are caught up in a struggle of their own. They are trying to build the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 361 members
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  • The Good Son on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Elijah Wood,  Wendy Crewson,  David Morse
    Director: Joseph Ruben
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Young Mark Evans (Elijah Wood) is naturally devastated by the loss of his mother, and in a bid to help him overcome his bereavement, he is sent to stay with his cousin Henry (Macaulay Culkin). However, Mark soon realises that Henry is not like normal children and that his idea of fun is both evil ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 877 members
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  • Forever Young on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis,  Elijah Wood,  Joe Morton
    Director: Steve Miner
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    In the 1940s a pilot (Mel Gibson), overcome with grief when his girlfriend goes into a coma, agrees to be cryogenically frozen in an experiment. He is forgotten about however, and is only woken by chance in 1992, where he has to struggle to adjust to a radically different world, while staying one ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 7,919 members
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  • Radio Flyer on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Elijah Wood,  John Heard,  Adam Baldwin
    Director: Richard Donner
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Mike (Elijah Wood) and Bobby (Joseph Mazzello) move to California, their mother (Lorraine Bracco) having recently divorced, with the intention of starting a new life. All is hunky dory until the mum starts going out with an abusive alcoholic who likes to be called 'The King' (Adam Baldwin). ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 257 members
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  • Paradise on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Thora Birch,  Elijah Wood,  Melanie Griffith
    Director: Mary Agnes Donoghue
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Ten-year old Willard (Elijah Wood) is sent to the country for the summer after his father walks out on his pregnant mother. The shy, withdrawn boy stays with Ben and Lily Reed (Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith), a couple who are mourning the death of their own son and can hardly hold their ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 203 members
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  • Avalon (1990)
    Starring: Armin Mueller-Stahl,  Elizabeth Perkins,  Joan Plowright
    Director: Barry Levinson
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    The third installment in Barry Levinson's Baltimore Trilogy, AVALON tells the story of a Jewish family immigrating to the United States in pursuit of the American dream. Starting in the early 1900s, the Krichinsky brothers begin to arrive in America one at a time, scrimping and saving to pay for ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 26 members
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  • Oliver Twist on DVD
    Starring: Elijah Wood,  Richard Dreyfuss,  David O'Hara
    Director: Tony Bill
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Young Oliver Twist (Alex Trench) escapes from the orphanage where he has been brutally treated all his life, and joins the gang of street urchins led by the rascally Fagin (Richard Dreyfuss). Oliver is trained as a pick-pocket, but ends up being caught for a crime he did not commit. However, this ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 225 members
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