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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


  • Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
  • Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind review by feelinglistless from Liverpool, England
    Rated - 5 stars One of the Best Films of the Year 2 May 2004
    ... Dunst are, well, Tom Wilkinson and Kirsten Dunst, it's interesting to see what Elijah Wood has been doing during The Rings and David Cross continues to be 'that guy'. Not...  
  • Sin City
  • Sin City review by from Gateshead, England
    Rated - 5 stars Oh my sweet lord 5 June 2005
    ...superb, the action mind blowing. i can't say anything about the plot other than Elijah Wood is terrifying... oh, i'm serious. just go see it ...  
  • Everything Is Illuminated
  • Everything Is Illuminated review by misspurple from Darwen, England
    Rated - 3 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 ...  

Elijah Wood - filmography


  • Green Street on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Elijah Wood,  Charlie Hunnam,  Claire Forlani
    Director: Lexi Alexander
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    When the whistle blows, the blood flows... Rival football firms go head to head in this story of violence, adrenaline, loyalty and back-street warfare. Matt Buckner (Elijah Wood) moves to London after being kicked out of Harvard University for alleged drug dealing. Before long he gets sucked into ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 28,490 members
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  • All I Want on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Elijah Wood,  Franka Potente,  Chris Martin
    Director: Jeffrey Porter
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Seventeen year-old Jones (Elijah Wood) has decided to avoid college in favour of renting an apartment, and attempting to learn from life while trying to become a writer. As he tries to gain his mother's (Elizabeth Perkins) approval and figure out his father's whereabouts, he becomes involved with ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 1,049 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.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 755 members
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  • Black And White on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Robert Downey Jr,  Jared Leto,  Ben Stiller
    Director: James Toback
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    With BLACK AND WHITE, writer-director James Toback (FINGERS, TWO GIRLS AND A GUY) confronts the topic of race head on--most specifically, the influence of black urban hip-hop culture on white America. Set in New York City as the 1990s wind to a close, the film is told in a broad, episodic fashion, ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 43% from 708 members
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  • The Faculty on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Clea Duvall,  Laura Harris,  Josh Hartnett
    Director: Robert Rodriguez
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The story of a group of high school students - loners, leaders, hipsters, nerds, brains and jocks - who make the terrifying discovery that their teachers are from another planet. With this knowledge they are forced to band together to save their school and town from alien domination.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 64% from 4,825 members
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  • Deep Impact on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Robert Duvall,  Tea Leoni,  Vanessa Redgrave
    Director: Mimi Leder
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    A fourteen-year-old amateur astronomer, an ambitious newswoman, and a former astronaut all find themselves at the forefront of catastrophe when it is discovered that a comet is on a fatal collision course with the Earth. In the time leading up to the disaster, they find themselves searching for ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 7,719 members
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  • Deep Impact - BLU-RAY Version (1998)
    Starring: Robert Duvall,  Tea Leoni,  Vanessa Redgrave
    Director: Mimi Leder
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    A reporter believes that she has discovered a Congressman's affair. But as it turns out, Elle isn't a mistress, but something used to describe an event so cataclysmic that it could destroy the planet...When it is discovered that an enormous comet is on a collision course with Earth, a handful of ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 64% from 47 members
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  • The Ice Storm on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Kevin Kline,  Sigourney Weaver,  Joan Allen
    Director: Ang Lee
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    It is Thanksgiving 1973, and the Carvers and the Hoods are two prototypical suburban families seemingly living the good life in New Canaan, Connecticut. Behind their New Age philosophies and polyester fashions, however, lies deep discontent. One husband carries on an unsatisfying affair with the ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 64% from 7,380 members
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  • Flipper on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Paul Hogan,  Elijah Wood,  Chelsea Field
    Director: Alan Shapiro
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Sandy Ricks (Elijah Wood), a moody 14-year-old Chicago boy struggling with his parents' recent divorce, is consigned against his will to spend the summer on a remote tropical island with his fisherman uncle (CROCODILE DUNDEE's Paul Hogan). Sandy brightens up when he meets a pretty islander and ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 929 members
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  • The War (1994)
    Starring: Elijah Wood,  Kevin Costner,  Mare Winningham
    Director: Jon Avnet
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The nostalgic tale of a close-knit family and their remarkable Mississippi summer of 1970. Son Stu is determined to build the ultimate tree-house... his father Stephen is equally determined to rebuild his and his family's life after the trauma of Vietnam.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 326 members
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  • Radio Flyer on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Lorraine Bracco,  Elijah Wood,  John Heard
    Director: Richard Donner
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Two young brothers' lives are turned upside down when their new alcoholic stepfather enters their world and begins to beat young Bobby. Devoted to their mom, they come up with their own solution and attempt to build a working airplane from their ordinary red wagon. In the process, they transform ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 166 members
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  • Forever Young on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis,  Mel Gibson,  Elijah Wood
    Director: Steve Miner
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A test pilot loses his true love so he volunteers to become cryogenically frozen for an experiment. Many years later a group of young boys stumble across his frozen capsule and revive him. He befriends the boy's mother and learns that his old sweetheart is still alive. Can they be reunited after so ..read more »
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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 »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 46% from 16 members
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  • Oliver Twist on DVD
    Starring: Richard Dreyfuss,  Elijah Wood,  David O'Hara
    Director: Tony Bill
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In this elaborate made-for-TV production of the classic Charles Dickens novel, young orphan Oliver Twist (Alex Trench) joins a gang of impoverished pickpocketing children, along with their leader, Fagin (Richard Dreyfuss), and the Artful Dodger (Elijah Wood). Poor Oliver struggles to break free of ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 56% from 179 members
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  • The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy Box Set
    Starring: Elijah Wood,  Sean Astin,  Ian Holm
    Director: Peter Jackson
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The Lord Of The Rings - The Fellowship Of The Ring: In a time before history, in a place called Middle-earth, a dark and powerful lord has brought together the forces of evil to destroy its cultures and enslave all life caught in his path. Sauron's time has come and he needs only one small object - ..read more »
    Rate this: 4.5 stars out of 5 94% from 71 members
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Elijah Wood facts

5 most recent films

9 - 3.0 stars
The Oxford Murders - 2.5 stars
Happy Feet - 3.5 stars
Happy Feet - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
Happy Feet - HD DVD Version - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy Box Set - 4.5 stars
The Lord Of The Rings - The Fellowship Of The Ring - Extended Version - 4.5 stars
The Lord Of The Rings - The Return of The King - Extended Version - 4.5 stars
The Lord Of The Rings - The Two Towers - Extended Version - 4.5 stars
The Lord Of The Rings - The Return Of The King - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Avalon - 2.5 stars
Deep Impact - BLU-RAY Version - 3.0 stars
Black And White - 2.0 stars
The Oxford Murders - 2.5 stars
All I Want - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Sean Astin - 7 times - show films
Ian McKellen - 7 times - show films
Brittany Murphy - 7 times - show films
Billy Boyd - 7 times - show films
Viggo Mortensen - 7 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Peter Jackson - 7 times - show films
Robert Rodriguez - 5 times - show films
Frank Miller - 4 times - show films
Quentin Tarant - 4 times - show films
George Miller - 3 times - show films