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Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zooey Deschanel & Michael Bacall

"I spent each day trying to view everything negatively," says Gordon-Levitt of getting into character for Manic, a this-is-your-kid-in-an-institution movie in which he stars with Deschanel (Almost Famous) and Manic co-writer Bacall. Gordon-Levitt's prep may have worked a bit too well: The kid best known for playing the sweet-tempered Tommy on TV's 3rd Rock From the Sun once acted out his frustration by slamming a wall loudly in a crowded airport. "Afterward, I was like, 'I'm not like this, I swear to God. I was raised by hippies,'" he says. As for Deschanel, who plays a reclusive girl embarking on a tortured romance with Gordon-Levitt, her character "was painfully shy," she says. "At the end of each day, it was like, 'Okay, I can have me back.'"