Storyline
Jake is a quiet, sensitive middle schooler with dreams of being an artist. He meets the affably brash Tony at his grandfather's funeral, and the unlikely pair soon hit it off. The budding friendship is put at risk, however, when a rent dispute between Jake's father, Brian, and Tony's mother, Leonor, threatens to become contentious.
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Jennifer Ehle, Alfred Molina, Greg Kinnear, Yolonda Ross, Arthur J. Nascarella, Stella Schnabel, Talia Balsam, Clare Foley, Paulina García, Ching Valdes-Aran, Theo Taplitz, Michael Barbieri, Mauricio Bustamante, Teeka Duplessis, Andy Karl, Elia Monte-Brown, Johnny Serret, Bryan Webster, Madison Wright
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Reviews
100
The Guardian
Sachs’ approach is so humane, and his characters so fully rendered, that an agenda never announces itself; instead, Sachs’ worldview seeps into you. He’s that skilled a film-maker.
100
The performances are impeccable. Sachs is a master of expressive understatement, and that applies both to the young actors playing the boys — there's not a false moment from either of them — and to the adults.
100
The remarkable, magical thing about this film is that, at 85 minutes, it’s so whole. With its fully-formed people and changing places, Little Men is a film a viewer can live in, and think about while they’re there.
100
Sachs' extraordinarily humane knack for emotional restraint echoes throughout Little Men. And it is all the more profound for it.
90
The power of Little Men is in how the characters resist the melodramatic flow (which is, come to think of it, how Chekhov works, too).
