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  • 2011
  • Not Rated
  • Variance Films
  • 1 h 23 m
  • 2011
  • Not Rated
  • Variance Films
  • 1 h 23 m

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 t...

Directed By: Mike Ott

Written By: Atsuko Okatsuka, Carl Bird McLaughlin, Mike Ott

  • 2011
  • Not Rated
  • Variance Films
  • 1 h 23 m
  • 2011
  • Not Rated
  • Variance Films
  • 1 h 23 m

Littlerock

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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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 t...

Directed By: Mike Ott

Written By: Atsuko Okatsuka, Carl Bird McLaughlin, Mike Ott

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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69% Positive
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31% Mixed
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80
Sep 1, 2011
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.
By Betsy Sharkey FULL REVIEW
75
Sep 8, 2011
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.
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75
Aug 12, 2011
Not until the film's surprisingly touching finale do we learn the source of that friction, in a delicately handled sequence that retroactively floods the story with satisfying context.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW
70
Sep 8, 2011
This is affecting and thematically pointed but much more pat than the situation that precedes it, in which two different realities must coexist uneasily on the same screen.
By J.R. Jones FULL REVIEW
70
Aug 9, 2011
Atsuko the character doesn't speak English; Atsuko the actress, speaking mostly un-subtitled Japanese when she speaks at all, gives a performance that's a marvel of nonverbal reaction.
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60
Aug 8, 2011
The message is nearly as slight as the presentation and just as hard to pin down, but even when tackling something as sharp edged and soft bellied as exclusion Littlerock is not without its pleasures.
By Sara Schieron FULL REVIEW
50
Aug 8, 2011
Well-crafted picture has a nice sense of place and rudderless youth, though in the end, simply too little happens for the story to have much resonance.
By Dennis Harvey FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Small Form Films
Release Date Aug 12, 2011
Duration 1 h 23 m
Rating Not Rated
Genres
Tagline Lost in love, language and Littlerock.
Website http://www.littlerock-movie.com/
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Awards

Film Independent Spirit Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Montréal Festival of New Cinema
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
AFI Fest
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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