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Little Man (2005)

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Reviews Counted: 15

Fresh: 9

Rotten:6

Average Rating: 6.1/10

Runtime: 1 hr 52 mins

Genre: Education/General Interest

Theatrical Release:Oct 28, 2005 Limited

Synopsis: Nicholas is born 100 days too early and weighs only one pound. From his froglike legs dangle blood pressure cuffs the size of band-aids. His heart is the size of a cashew. little man is the... Nicholas is born 100 days too early and weighs only one pound. From his froglike legs dangle blood pressure cuffs the size of band-aids. His heart is the size of a cashew. little man is the story of how a micro-preemie brought a family to its knees. Throughout his struggle for life, so struggle filmmaker Nicole Conn and political activist Gwen Baba to keep their family from disintegrating under the unrelenting stress and chaos of hospitals, emergency medical crisis and a crushing blow to trust. Life partners strong for seven years, they and their two-year-old daughter, Gabrielle, have it all. They're on top of the world until their surrogate becomes pregnant with their son. What do you do when a pregnancy goes bad? When a partnership is torn apart by opposing belief systems, when a small infant lives in the surreal world of the Neonatology Intensive Care Unit for 158 days? Nicholas goes through medical procedure after medical procedure - because science and medicine "can" keep a fetus alive. But at what price do we hold onto life? Conn is obsessed by her son's need to be here. Baba is terrified that long hospital stays and the mini-hospital in their own home will erode the family to a place of no return. What do you do when a pregnancy goes bad? When a partnership is torn apart by opposing belief systems, when a small infant lives in the surreal world of the Neonatology Intensive Care Unit for 158 days? Nicholas goes through medical procedure after medical procedure - because science and medicine "can" keep a fetus alive. But at what price do we hold onto life? Conn is obsessed by her son's need to be here. Baba is terrified that long hospital stays and the mini-hospital in their own home will erode the family to a place of no return. --© Official Site [More]

Director: Nicole Conn

Director: Nicole Conn

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While Conn's story is inherently compelling, it's pretty much ruined in the telling thanks to her unnerving choice to fill it with a twinkling piano-heavy score, florid narration, and trembling slow-motion.

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02/09/06
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The film leaves viewers with the odd sensation of having peered into the most intimate details of other people's lives, without acquiring much beyond surface impressions.

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12/06/05
Saul Austerlitz
Boxoffice Magazine

able to powerfully bring to mind some touching issues and blur the line of hard decision making

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12/06/05
Rachel Gordon
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Like her own admitted inability to see Nicholas' situation through anything other than a 'mother's eyes,' Conn is also unable to view her film objectively, even as it grows overlong and ungainly.

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12/02/05
Ken Fox
TV Guide's Movie Guide

An emotionally powerful record of a remarkable little boy's fight to live.

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12/02/05
Timothy Knight
Reel.com

Your baby is near death. Instead of dropping everything to save his life, you make sure the video camera keeps rolling.

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12/02/05
V.A. Musetto
New York Post
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With her penchant for frilly romance and sentimentality, the focus is often, cloyingly, on Conn as the heroine of the story, the mother who (sob!) wouldn't give up.

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12/02/05
Jami Bernard
New York Daily News
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Given the subject matter, this new world of manufactured disability, as Conn describes it, is often gripping and moving.

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12/02/05
Kent Turner
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Little Man is an unusually honest film about the ambiguity of maternal love.

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12/01/05
Dana Stevens
New York Times
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An experiment in the brave new world of same-sex child-bearing goes badly and is turned into a film.

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12/01/05
Ron Wilkinson
Monsters and Critics

What lingers are the images of Nicholas's manhandling by a host of dispassionate medicos and a sense that 'quality of life' is a much shakier concept than we could've imagined.

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11/29/05
Mark Holcomb
Village Voice
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Tells a tale rife with implications about abortion and the consequences of modern medical technological progress.

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11/03/05
Nick Schager
Slant Magazine

A deeply personal, often wrenching documentary that raises pertinent and difficult questions about choices made and their potential ramifications.

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10/28/05
Michael Rechtshaffen
Hollywood Reporter
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A powerful and challenging documentary that will affect audiences long after they've passed through the lobby.

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10/27/05
Kevin Crust
Los Angeles Times
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An altogether riveting portrait of motherly devotion at its most primal.

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10/27/05
Tim Grierson
L.A. Weekly
 
 
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