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Little Man

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)
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What The Critics Said
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The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen
A deeply personal, often wrenching documentary.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir
A marvelously compressed and immaculately constructed work.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Tim Grierson
Conn is exasperating and heroic in equal measure, an altogether riveting portrait of motherly devotion at its most primal.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Ken Fox
Deeply personal film that often feels more like an artfully produced home video than a documentary.
Read Full Review >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?
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
