# The blue-eyed kid in that movie last night was . . . **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 23, 2003, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blue-eyed-kid-in-that-movie-last-night-was/150535 "2003-01-23T21:02:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blue-eyed-kid-in-that-movie-last-night-was/150535/1 "2003-01-23T21:02:33Z")
Elijah Wood in **The Good Son**. So I was idly channel-surfing last night, and came to rest on a movie with Macaulay Culkin (yuck) and another kid who seemed vaguely familiar. Too lazy to look up the movie, I watched it for awhile. Darned if the blue-eyed kid wasn’t a good little actor, way better than Culkin. It drove me nuts until I finally picked up the newspaper and saw that he was Elijah Wood, aged about 10. He was a pudgy little guy, and back then his eyes were in proportion to his face. I guess they didn’t know when to stop growing. Huh. Didn’t know he started acting so young. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blue-eyed-kid-in-that-movie-last-night-was/150535/2 "2003-01-23T21:17:58Z")
…and he’d been in 11 things before that, so you haven’t seen at him his youngest yet. He’s been acting in tv/movies since 1989 [http://us.imdb.com/Name?Wood,%20Elijah](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Wood,%20Elijah) ---
**Author:** ![Harli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c0e974/32.png) [@Harli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harli)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blue-eyed-kid-in-that-movie-last-night-was/150535/3 "2003-01-23T21:20:13Z")
Oh yah, he’s been around for a while. Another movie he did as a kid was [North](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0110687), which I’ve seen twice on television in the past month alone. [Elijah Wood](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Wood,%20Elijah) even has a few other credits to his name before those two movies. (Upon preview, this post is redundant. My apologies.) ---
**Author:** ![Atreyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blue-eyed-kid-in-that-movie-last-night-was/150535/4 "2003-01-23T23:47:22Z")
One of the first movies Elijah Wood appeared in was Avalon, by Barry Levinson. Highly recommended, although not the cheeriest film you could watch. ---
**Author:** ![Middlea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/edb3f5/32.png) [@Middlea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Middlea)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blue-eyed-kid-in-that-movie-last-night-was/150535/5 "2003-01-24T16:27:31Z")
Seeing him in “The Good Son” recently makes me feel really guilty about the dream I had of him the other night. Ah … Frodooo… ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blue-eyed-kid-in-that-movie-last-night-was/150535/6 "2003-01-24T16:34:54Z")
I liked Culkin in The Good Son. ---
**Author:** ![BuckleberryFerry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f9b8f/32.png) [@BuckleberryFerry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuckleberryFerry)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blue-eyed-kid-in-that-movie-last-night-was/150535/7 "2003-01-24T17:34:44Z")
Let me just say that Elijah Wood is the only guy that I’ve seen that has EVER EVER made me think “I want children.” And it is a VERY well known fact among my friends and family that I GREATLY dislike children. But I can’t help looking at him and thinking “I want to have his children.” um…[/pointless, disturbing digression] ~Ferry ---
**Author:** ![Avalonian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@Avalonian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avalonian)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blue-eyed-kid-in-that-movie-last-night-was/150535/8 "2003-01-24T17:39:20Z")
Another really good early Elijah Wood movie (much better than _The Good Son_, in my opinion) is [Radio Flyer](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0105211). Highly recommended. The funny thing is, he’s very young in it, but he doesn’t look that much different than he does now! ---
**Author:** ![BuckleberryFerry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f9b8f/32.png) [@BuckleberryFerry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuckleberryFerry)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blue-eyed-kid-in-that-movie-last-night-was/150535/9 "2003-01-24T17:41:56Z")
I think he stopped “growing” at around eleven… Don’t care, still want his kids 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blue-eyed-kid-in-that-movie-last-night-was/150535/10 "2003-01-25T04:10:25Z")
I thought I was the only one who noticed that, **BuckleberryFerry**. Although I always thought it was twelve. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blue-eyed-kid-in-that-movie-last-night-was/150535/11 "2003-01-25T05:19:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by elfkin477 \* > \*\*[http://us.imdb.com/Name?Wood,%20Elijah](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Wood,%20Elijah) \*\* Holy cats – Frodo was the kid star of _Deep Impact_ ?! I mean, I remember him in _Forever Young_, but I just have trouble picturing him as “The great Leo Beiderman”. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blue-eyed-kid-in-that-movie-last-night-was/150535/12 "2003-01-25T06:16:30Z")
> [@](#): > > Holy cats – Frodo was the kid star of Deep Impact ?! Hah!! You don’t read my posts, **Tracer**! I pointed that out in the “What’s going to happen to the Hobbit Actors?” thread about a week ago. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BuckleberryFerry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f9b8f/32.png) [@BuckleberryFerry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuckleberryFerry)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blue-eyed-kid-in-that-movie-last-night-was/150535/13 "2003-01-25T22:45:32Z")
Note to self: PLAN A 'LIJAH FILM WEEKEND! I gotta get off my butt and see more of these films…I’m working off of LOTR and _Bumblebee_ here!! ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2003, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blue-eyed-kid-in-that-movie-last-night-was/150535/14 "2003-01-26T07:34:09Z")
With Tivo (and Replay too, I assume, I’ve never worked one) you can set his name as a “Wishlist” and it will automatically record anything with his name in the program description. It’s wonderful! No more combing the TV Guide hoping to catch sight of the name of a movie. I plugged in Elijah Wood (and most of the rest of the cast) and have caught a large percentage of his films over the past year. Best of all was catching Miranda Otto’s films. Her smaller Australian films have popped up on all kinds of strange channels, such as WE, Trio, Oxygen. They weren’t OAR, but considering I wouldn’t have seen them otherwise, I was happy. Every few weeks my Tivo would catch something she’d done. Tivo caught **Radio Flyer** and while I know it got bad reviews, I liked it a lot. Elijah was so cute and he was very good in it. ---
**Author:** ![BuckleberryFerry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f9b8f/32.png) [@BuckleberryFerry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuckleberryFerry)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2003, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blue-eyed-kid-in-that-movie-last-night-was/150535/15 "2003-01-26T13:04:09Z")
'Notha NTS: buy TiVo ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2003, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blue-eyed-kid-in-that-movie-last-night-was/150535/16 "2003-01-27T18:44:26Z")
Psssst . . . ya wanna see his [tattoo](http://www.fantasyplanet.cz/lotr/galeriefilm.asp)? Second picture on the page, or at least it was at the time of his post. ---
**Author:** ![Morgainelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Morgainelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgainelf)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2003, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blue-eyed-kid-in-that-movie-last-night-was/150535/17 "2003-01-27T19:04:02Z")
He’s in one of my favorite movies ever,[The Ice Storm](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0119349). Along with a certain web-spinning super hero. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BuckleberryFerry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f9b8f/32.png) [@BuckleberryFerry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuckleberryFerry)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2003, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blue-eyed-kid-in-that-movie-last-night-was/150535/18 "2003-01-27T20:08:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pugluvr \* > \*\*Psssst . . . ya wanna see his [tattoo](http://www.fantasyplanet.cz/lotr/galeriefilm.asp)? Second picture on the page, or at least it was at the time of his post. \*\* Forgive me, but…I do believe Ah’ve got the vapors! Mmm, you can see the tops of his underpants there…::fwump:: ~Ferry ---
**Author:** ![InTransit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47774/32.png) [@InTransit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InTransit)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2003, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blue-eyed-kid-in-that-movie-last-night-was/150535/19 "2003-01-27T20:23:15Z")
Woah, BuckleberryFerry, does Elijah make you want to have children, or do you want HIS children?! Heh. ---
**Author:** ![BuckleberryFerry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f9b8f/32.png) [@BuckleberryFerry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuckleberryFerry)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2003, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blue-eyed-kid-in-that-movie-last-night-was/150535/20 "2003-01-27T21:28:54Z")
A little from column A, a little from column B. 😃 His would be preferable. ~Ferry