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- 2017
- R
- Gunpowder & Sky
- 1 h 29 m
- 2017
- R
- Gunpowder & Sky
- 1 h 29 m
Summary Medieval nuns Alessandra (Alison Brie), Fernanda (Aubrey Plaza), and Ginevra (Kate Micucci) lead a simple life in their convent. Their days are spent chafing at monastic routine, spying on one another, and berating the estate’s day laborer. After a particularly vicious insult session drives the peasant away, Father Tommasso (John C. Reil...
Directed By: Jeff Baena
Written By: Giovanni Boccaccio, Jeff Baena
- 2017
- R
- Gunpowder & Sky
- 1 h 29 m
- 2017
- R
- Gunpowder & Sky
- 1 h 29 m
The Little Hours
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6.0
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Summary Medieval nuns Alessandra (Alison Brie), Fernanda (Aubrey Plaza), and Ginevra (Kate Micucci) lead a simple life in their convent. Their days are spent chafing at monastic routine, spying on one another, and berating the estate’s day laborer. After a particularly vicious insult session drives the peasant away, Father Tommasso (John C. Reil...
Directed By: Jeff Baena
Written By: Giovanni Boccaccio, Jeff Baena
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 29 Critic Reviews
69
69% Positive
20 Reviews
20 Reviews
31% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 29 Critic Reviews
69
69% Positive
20 Reviews
20 Reviews
31% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
This is one of the funniest movies of the year.
A comedy in both the current and the original senses of the word, Little Hours earns its laughs before ensuring a happy end.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 56 User Ratings
6.0
50% Positive
28 Ratings
28 Ratings
38% Mixed
21 Ratings
21 Ratings
13% Negative
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 56 User Ratings
6.0
50% Positive
28 Ratings
28 Ratings
38% Mixed
21 Ratings
21 Ratings
13% Negative
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
A bawdy, laugh-out-loud funny medieval sex comedy that, though a little slow to get going, more than makes up for its sluggish start with a steady stream of raucous though never gratuitously out-of-control humor. Think Mel Brooks with an edge, though one that never slips over the fence into the realm of bad taste and that continually finds inventive ways to infuse originality into material that could easily become trite in less skilled hands. This one surely won't appeal to everyone (especially devout Catholics), but those who appreciate well-developed irreverence will likely come away from this one with sore bellies and tickled fancies.
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Medieval nuns Alessandra (Alison Brie), Fernanda (Aubrey Plaza), and Ginevra (Kate Micucci) lead a simple life in their convent. Their days are spent chafing at monastic routine, spying on one another, and berating the estate’s day laborer. After a particularly vicious insult session drives the peasant away, Father Tommasso (John C. Reilly) brings on new hired hand Massetto (Dave Franco), a virile young servant forced into hiding by his angry lord. Introduced to the sisters as a deaf-mute to discourage temptation, Massetto struggles to maintain his cover as the repressed nunnery erupts in a whirlwind of pansexual horniness, substance abuse, and wicked revelry. I found this film to be enjoyable to say the least, though it takes a bit to get itself going, it more than makes up for it with great dialogue, out of control humor and a great performance by Aubrey Plaza
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True, The Little Hours is essentially a one-joke comedy — but most of the jokes under the umbrellas of that one joke are pretty damn, I mean darn, funny.
For all its hip ludicrousness, The Little Hours has a point: to almost earnestly riff on how atheism has taken hold of 21st-century America, by rooting our nation’s moors in a time of great austerity, sexism, classism, and persecution.
No matter how obvious the set-up – what if men and women of the cloth were … rude and sexy??? – the cast gives every scene just enough of a deadpan spin to sell it, at least for the first hour. After the final 30 minutes come and go, including a frantic detour into witchcraft, you may seek out a convent of your own.
The Little Hours is reasonably entertaining, but it hints just enough at something deeper that it may well leave you wanting.
The Little Hours gets freaky, but it never feels truly subversive, or even that titillating.
It feels like a long SNL sketch and I am only saying that it is long for the runtime I saw or else I thought it was of the same length.
The Little Hours
Jeff Baena, the director and the co-writer of this hilarious I-don't-think-satirical comic film, has all my attention I can give. And there are no regrets. Not even for a second. Despite its ups and downs. I am sure that the film has plenty of different aspects and things that is to be swooned over. But let me focus on one. Okay. So there's this one joke, in an entire film. A comedy film. First of all you've got to take your hats off for that bold move. Now, there have been such rare projects as such that has made its way up to the top. But no one walked on one track, one tune.
And the joke is- I hope you are ready for it- that these characters, the personalities they possess, is not actually how they are and behave. This contradiction between their appearance and nature is the ongoing and the only gag the film has. So now how do you make it last long, in fact, throughout the film. Well, the first is obviously that you push the boundary gradually as the film ages knowing where you are going with these sketches and how impactful the destination is.
And the second one, the surprising factor, the soul reason why it works every single time, is the reaction to these outrageous actions. Not only these reactions or characters are mirroring the enactments of the audience. But also is subconsciously telling the audience how to act in these circumstances. The observer is told to lose it completely in various ways, different positions, situationally. Now was this intentional or a fluke, is a latter matter. The result is that it works. Charmingly it flows by rather than it floods in. The Little Hours is little and feels barely like of an hour, everything in a good way.
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I don't know, expected more of this. Of course it is based on Decameron and the source matherial is quite similar to this, but I expected to see something more funny, but I think the trailer had the most of the funniest parts. Great cast though, with some of my favorites there - Aubrey Plaza and Alison Brie, worth watching it for them I guess
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I can deal with this sort of comedy, I know it is intended to be foolish, but not taking you for a fool.
This movie is 90 minutes of pretty much nothing, it's lame comedy with lame laughs and lame jokes, it is slow and boring with such simplistic performances from everyone in its cast.
A huge disappointment and a waste of time.
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I have been fooled again !
I am aware that people have different taste but in my opinion this film doesn't deserve that kind of rating at all comparing with other movies that much better and ending up with lower rating so the plot is lame nothing funny about it also it was boring the reason I watch this of the high rating and the cast and I am sure if its not for these famous names casting the rating won't stay as it is so nothing goes for the story here trust me don't waste your time on this if your time is valuable
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Awards
Golden Trailer Awards
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Chlotrudis Awards
• 2 Nominations
Edinburgh International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
