Littlerock
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  • Summary: A sleepy-eyed exurb of Los Angeles is seen through the eyes of two young Japanese tourists, stranded there with a broken rental car. One wants to leave as soon as possible, but the other finds the town and its citizens to be not only fascinating, but perhaps a better example of what America really is than the large cities they've been traveling between. The excitement of the new permeates every frame of this intimate evocation of a small town in Southern California where everyone's talking, but no one really understands. (Variance Films)… Expand

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  1. Positive: 9 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 13
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  1. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Betsy Sharkey
    Sep 1, 2011
    80
    McLaughlin, who has a good eye for the minimal, manages to bring out the haunting beauty of empty places littered with the discards of forgotten lives.
  2. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Wesley Morris
    Oct 6, 2011
    75
    They're not looking to say anything grand. What they do say - and what we see - is smart and true.
  3. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: David Lewis
    Sep 8, 2011
    75
    Littlerock could easily be described as the flip side of "Lost in Translation": Instead of Americans struggling to communicate in Japan, it's the Japanese who are out of the loop when they get stranded in the outer, outer fringes of the Los Angeles area.
  4. Time Out New York
    Reviewed by: David Fear
    Aug 10, 2011
    60
    The ugly Americanism gets piled on thick - racists, dickwads and ignoramuses, oh my! - but there's a melancholy to this indie's cross-cultural explorations and communication breakdowns that compensates for the broader swipes.

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  1. msic
    7
    I happened to like this film very much. It is somewhat in line with recent New American Realism -- films like "The Exploding Girl," "In Between Days" and "Wendy and Lucy" -- but then, apart from focusing on character over action, those films don't have much in common. "Littlerock" is primarily about encountering the everyday world from a very different perspective, a global one. Here is my review: http://tinyurl.com/4yf4c54… Expand

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