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- 2015
- PG-13
- Open Road Films (II)
- 1 h 46 m
- 2015
- PG-13
- Open Road Films (II)
- 1 h 46 m
Summary A seven-year-old boy is willing to do whatever it takes to bring his father back from World War II.
Written By: Pepe Portillo
- 2015
- PG-13
- Open Road Films (II)
- 1 h 46 m
- 2015
- PG-13
- Open Road Films (II)
- 1 h 46 m
Little Boy
30
6.4
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Summary A seven-year-old boy is willing to do whatever it takes to bring his father back from World War II.
Written By: Pepe Portillo
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 24 Critic Reviews
30
13% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
33% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
54% Negative
13 Reviews
13 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 24 Critic Reviews
30
13% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
33% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
54% Negative
13 Reviews
13 Reviews
There is a lot to admire here. Writer-director Alejandro Monteverde (Bella) is not afraid to take his time letting you get to know the characters or moving things along, but the movie never seems ponderous.
Little Boy is loaded with weighty subjects and teachable moments, all doled out between generous helpings of tragedy and sentiment. It’s ambitious, but a cluttered weeper whose lessons might have stuck, had there been fewer of them.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 60 User Ratings
6.4
58% Positive
35 Ratings
35 Ratings
17% Mixed
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
25% Negative
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 60 User Ratings
6.4
58% Positive
35 Ratings
35 Ratings
17% Mixed
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
25% Negative
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
This is a great family movie. It brought a lot of memories of growing up in the 60s in South America.
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A very moving story. A drama with a profound meaning and intense moments in which the director captivates the heart. Definitely worth watching, and even better if with spouse and kids!
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Functioning as more parable than sermon, it offers at least a hint of a blueprint for other faith filmmakers who want their message to reach beyond the front pew.
The film is so bizarre, contrived, manipulative, and meretricious that anything is possible.
It's all simplistic sermonizing in director and co-writer Alejandro Monteverde's hands, devoid of any thoughtful messiness about wartime mind-sets or family despair, and quick to sand any edges with postcard-pretty coastal town vistas and cutesy music cues.
The steady performances of Tom Wilkinson, playing a kindly priest, and Emily Watson, an angelic mother, in Alejandro Monteverde’s Little Boy do little to offset the cloying sweetness of a movie that has the haranguing inspirational tone of a marathon Sunday-school lesson.
Examinations of faith on film don't have to be noxious.
this is the worst movie ever and a 2 year old boy could have written the story of this movie and the and why would a child act on a movie like this ****
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This movie was one of the worst movies I have ever seen, I made it through an hour and was wishing I was finishing my Algebra homework over watching what was the top three worst movies I have seen this year. All the amazing reviews are insane, you have been warned, see at your own risk!
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[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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Production Company
Metanoia Films,
Santa Fé Films
Release Date Apr 24, 2015
Duration 1 h 46 m
Rating PG-13
Tagline Believe the impossible
Awards
Young Artist Awards
• 1 Nomination
Voice Arts Awards
• 1 Nomination