Little Fish

Name: Little Fish
Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama, Romance
Released: February 5, 2021
Duration: 101 min
Rating: 71
Cast: David Lennon, Heather Decksheimer, Jack O'Connell, Mackenzie Cardwell, Natalie Farrow

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IFC Films | Release Date: February 5, 2021 | NR

Starring: David Lennon, Heather Decksheimer, Jack O'Connell, Mackenzie Cardwell, Natalie Farrow, Olivia Cooke, Raúl Castillo, Ronald Robinson, Ross Wirtanen, Soko

Summary: Little Fish opens in the midst of a global epidemic: Neuroinflammatory Affliction, a sever and rapid Alzheimer’s-like condition in which people’s memories disappear. Couple Jude Williams (Jack O’Connell) and Emma Ryerson (Olivia Cooke) are grappling with the realities of NIA, interspersed with glimpses from the past as the two meet andLittle Fish opens in the midst of a global epidemic: Neuroinflammatory Affliction, a sever and rapid Alzheimer’s-like condition in which people’s memories disappear. Couple Jude Williams (Jack O’Connell) and Emma Ryerson (Olivia Cooke) are grappling with the realities of NIA, interspersed with glimpses from the past as the two meet and their relationship blooms. But as NIA’s grip on society tightens, blurring the lines between the past and the present, it becomes more and more difficult to know what’s true and what’s false.… Expand

Director: Chad Hartigan

Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Drama, Romance

Rating: NR

Runtime: 101 min

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John DeFore

Feb 4, 2021

It makes a global crisis intensely personal, even romantic. Read full review

Joe Morgenstern

Feb 4, 2021

The result is better than smart, it’s stirring. Read full review

Katie Walsh

Feb 4, 2021

Hartigan has a knack for sensitive, human dramas, and while Little Fish takes place in a near-future heightened reality, the story is relatable not only because we’re all living through a pandemic ourselves, dealing with grief and loss on a scale that ranges from the deeply personal to the impossibly large, but because this kind of loss is also very real. Read full review

Jocelyn Noveck

Feb 4, 2021

Talk about timing. When he began making Little Fish, an intimate and affecting romance in a sci-fi setting, director Chad Hartigan had no idea the world would be coping with a real pandemic in the real 2021. Watching this fictional society begin to fray in panic feels just a tad too close for comfort. Read full review

Bob Strauss

Feb 25, 2021

This day-after-tomorrow fantasy, made before anybody had even heard of COVID-19, is touchingly romantic and emotionally credible. It’s an escape that resembles our current locked-down lives, with feelings as relatable as they are fictionally heightened. Read full review

Nick Schager

Feb 4, 2021

A portrait of life’s impermanence, it’s a bittersweet small-scale saga whose occasional sluggishness is offset by its sensitivity. Read full review

Charles Bramesco

Feb 4, 2021

The lackluster Little Fish banks on the automatic pathos of its subject matter, unaware that such delicate material actually requires greater skill and finesse to pull off, now more than ever. Rather than imbuing this unintended commentary with a cathartic charge, its proximity to reality accentuates the air of inauthenticity. Read full review

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JeffRson

Mar 26, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Amazing film. It teaches you a lesson how it is important to build memories, how it is important to live. But also asks other questions such as how do you live without memories? It isn't a sci-fi movie really because it is happening now in this world with Alzheimer, or even with the loss of memories from past relationships. A beautiful love story.… Expand