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Little Man

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Little Man reviews
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5.6 User Score:

Mixed or average reviews

Based on 11 critic reviews
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Based on 3 votes
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Documentary

Written by:

Directed by: Nicole Conn

Release Date:
Theatrical: October 28, 2005

Running Time: 112 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: Not Rated

Little Man is the story of how a micro-preemie brought a family to its knees. Throughout little Nicholas's struggle for life, so struggle filmmaker Nicole Conn and political activist Gwen Baba to keep their family from disintegrating under the unrelenting stress and chaos of hospitals, emergency medical crisis and a crushing blow to trust. (Jour de Fete Films)

What The Critics Said

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

80

The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen

A deeply personal, often wrenching documentary.

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80

Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir

A marvelously compressed and immaculately constructed work.

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70

Variety Dennis Harvey

Pic can be taken as either inspirational or cautionary, but either way rivets attention on the efforts of both medical science and Conn herself to keep the little guy alive.

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70

LA Weekly Tim Grierson

Conn is exasperating and heroic in equal measure, an altogether riveting portrait of motherly devotion at its most primal.

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70

Los Angeles Times Kevin Crust

Above all, it's a testament to the will to live and how that spirit can be found in even the smallest of packages.

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63

TV Guide Ken Fox

Deeply personal film that often feels more like an artfully produced home video than a documentary.

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60

Village Voice Mark Holcomb

Guaranteed to polarize audiences. Is her insistence on taking every measure possible to save little Nicholas heroic or monumentally self-serving?

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50

New York Daily News Jami Bernard

But with her penchant for frilly romance and sentimentality, the focus is often, cloyingly, on Conn as the heroine of the story, the mother who (sob!) wouldn't give up.

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50

The New York Times Lawrence Van Gelder

Weighing in at almost exactly one pound and unable to breathe or eat on his own, Nicholas James Baba-Conn seemed doomed to a very short life; his chance for survival was calculated at close to zero.

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40

The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin

While Conn's story is inherently compelling, it's pretty much ruined in the telling thanks to her unnerving choice to fill it with a twinkling piano-heavy score, florid narration, and trembling slow-motion.

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38

New York Post V.A. Musetto

Your baby is near death. Instead of dropping everything to save his life, you make sure the video camera keeps rolling.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 5.6 (out of 10) based on 3 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Susan M. gave it a6:
[**Spoilers**] I don't think that they should have checked the health of the surrogate mother. Things would have turned out very different and probably easy. Also, I think they should have spent more time with Nicholas instead of worrying about the camera.

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