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Elle plays: Emma Learner
Synopsis
At the close of a beautiful summer day near the quiet Connecticut town where they live, the Learner family -- Ethan and Grace, their children, Josh and Emma -- stop at a gas station on their way home from a concert. Josh Learner, lost in a 10-year-old's private world, is standing at the edge of the road when a car comes racing around the bend. He is hit and instantly killed. The car speeds away.
From this moment forward, the story becomes a harrowing countdown to the confrontation between two very different men. The hit-and-run driver is a small-town lawyer named Dwight Arno, a man in desperate need of a second chance. Dwight is also the father of a ten-year-old boy, who was asleep in the car the night Josh Learner was killed. Now Dwight must decide whether to run from his crime or to pay the price for what he did. Ethan Learner, a respected professor of literature at a small New England college, has seen his orderly world shattered in a single moment, yet persists in the belief that he can find the unknown man who killed his son. Behind their stories are those of eight-year-old Emma, who can't stop thinking her brother's death was her fault, and of Grace, who must find the strength to keep herself and her family together, and to be the mother Emma so badly needs.
Elle's Character
Emma Learner is the only daughter in this grief stricken family, the sister to Josh who was killed. Emma longs for her parents attention, but sadly gets overlooked as they stuggle to deal with their grief. Grace and Ethan finally wake up to their daughters needs at her piano recital, where she dedicates her beautiful performance to her dead brother.
Trivia
. Filming began in early October 2006 and continued through until early November. The funeral scene, in which Emma's brother Josh is buried, was shot on October 23. The scene in which he is hit by a car was filmed on October 3.
. Elle and her co-stars were photographed by the media and the public numerous times during the location shoots.
. Elle had taken piano lessons before, but stopped. She took them up again to play the role of Emma, and loved it so much she has kept it up ever since.
Notable Quotes
"She's incredibly bright and talented. I think that the gift she has is utter empathy, and ability to just react in a situation. Depending on what was happening in a scene, her performance adjusted; it was incredible to watch. I mean, you’re learning from a 7-year-old."
- Joaquin Phoenix ('Ethan Learner')
"And Elle Fanning… One take at an audition and I knew. She is a genius actor. She has that acting talent that will be with her all of her life and she will be the next generation’s Meryl Streep or something like that and Eddie Alderson had worked a lot in television and soap operas and so the casting was not a problem in the slightest."
- Terry George (Director)
"[I'm] blown away by Elle and Eddie’s humility and their normalcy. They’re sweet kids, but they also worked so hard on their characters."
- Mira Sorvino ('Ruth Wheldon')
"I was a child actress myself, though not yet at Elle’s age; she has been working basically since she was a baby – and she’s great, so energetic and enthusiastic. She watches carefully, takes everything in, and – considering the subject matter of our movie – has a good time."
- Jennifer Connelly ('Grace Learner')
Links
. Reservation Road at IMDB.com
. Images of Elle in Reservation Road
. Clips of Elle in Reservation Road
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