Growing up is tough for any teenager. But it's even tougher when

you have mysterious super powers you don't understand and must

not reveal to others - powers that

keep you from fitting in with the

everyday high school world of

football, friends and dating.

Teenage anxieties and smalltown

secrets give the Superman

mythology an exciting new spin

in Smallville. Tom Welling plays

Clark Kent, the adolescent

whose hoped-for romance with

Lana Lang (Kristin Kreuk) is

frustrated by the kryptonite in

her necklace. Michael Rosenbaum is

Clark's self-proclaimed steadfast

friend Lex Luthor. Inside the idyllic

community of Smallville, the intertwined

destinies of these three begin to take

shape while an imminent danger emerges:

a high-school prank has spawned a vengeful

villain who has acquired super powers of his own.