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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... [More]
Director: Nicole Conn
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Top CriticWhile 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.
02/16/06
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02/09/06
Top CriticThe 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.
12/06/05
able to powerfully bring to mind some touching issues and blur the line of hard decision making
12/06/05
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.
12/02/05
An emotionally powerful record of a remarkable little boy's fight to live.
12/02/05
Your baby is near death. Instead of dropping everything to save his life, you make sure the video camera keeps rolling.
12/02/05
Top CriticWith 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.
12/02/05
Top CriticGiven the subject matter, this new world of manufactured disability, as Conn describes it, is often gripping and moving.
12/02/05
Little Man is an unusually honest film about the ambiguity of maternal love.
12/01/05
Top CriticAn experiment in the brave new world of same-sex child-bearing goes badly and is turned into a film.
12/01/05
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.
11/29/05
Top CriticTells a tale rife with implications about abortion and the consequences of modern medical technological progress.
11/03/05
A deeply personal, often wrenching documentary that raises pertinent and difficult questions about choices made and their potential ramifications.
10/28/05
Top CriticA powerful and challenging documentary that will affect audiences long after they've passed through the lobby.
10/27/05
Top CriticAn altogether riveting portrait of motherly devotion at its most primal.
10/27/05
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