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  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • Joseph Burstyn
  • 1 h 15 m
  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • Joseph Burstyn
  • 1 h 15 m
Little Fugitive (re-release)

Summary The winner of the Silver Lion at the 1953 Venice Film Festival tells the story of Joey, a young boy who runs away to Coney Island after he is tricked into believing he has killed his older brother.

Directed By: Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin

Written By: Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin

  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • Joseph Burstyn
  • 1 h 15 m
  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • Joseph Burstyn
  • 1 h 15 m

Little Fugitive (re-release)

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91
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 6 User Ratings
5.8
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Summary The winner of the Silver Lion at the 1953 Venice Film Festival tells the story of Joey, a young boy who runs away to Coney Island after he is tricked into believing he has killed his older brother.

Directed By: Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin

Written By: Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin

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100
Jan 29, 2013
The film's genius is how completely it tunes in to his 
experience, delicately outlining Joey's private moments of shame, elation, despondency, and pride.
By Nick Pinkerton FULL REVIEW
100
Jan 29, 2013
There's influential, and then there's this 1953 microbudgeted beauty, one that's made its way into the DNA of everything from cinema vérité to the French New Wave.
By Eric Hynes FULL REVIEW
88
Jan 29, 2013
The film's beguiling visual poetry and smatterings of sociological subtext function less than coherently as transitional markers between cinematic epochs, or even as the nascent burblings of any imminent DIY revolution; instead, they're redolent of a modernist apotheosis.
By Joseph Jon Lanthier FULL REVIEW
75
Mar 7, 2013
This is a world where people still put out wash to dry on fire escapes, watermelon has seeds, amusement park rides cost 9 cents. Joey is the little fugitive of the title, of course, but at the heart of the movie, as its makers could never have imagined 60 years ago, is a much bigger fugitive: time itself.
By Mark Feeney FULL REVIEW

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33% Negative
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Production Company Little Fugitive Production Company
Release Date Feb 1, 2013
Duration 1 h 15 m
Rating Not Rated
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Tagline The picture that set Hollywood on its ear!
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Awards

Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
Venice Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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