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Movie Info

When documentarian Nicole Conn and her partner, Gwendolyn Baba, decide to adopt a child in 2002, their surrogate mother turns out to have serious undisclosed medical issues. Refusing to terminate their child, the two choose to have Nicholas born 100 days early, leaving the under-one-pound infant with a very small chance of survival. Nicole and Gwendolyn battle to keep Nicholas alive, while the stress of the medical emergencies tests their relationship.

Genre:

documentary
Original Language:

English
Director:

Nicole Conn
Producer:

Danny Jacobsen, Nicole Conn
Release Date (Streaming):

Mar 10, 2017
Runtime:

1h 52m
Production Co:

Little Man Productions

Cast & Crew

Nicole Conn
Director

Danny Jacobsen
Producer

Nicole Conn
Producer

Critic Reviews for Little Man

All Critics (15) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (9) | Rotten (6)

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.

February 16, 2006 | Full Review…

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

December 2, 2005 | Rating: 1.5/4

V.A. Musetto
New York Post
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.

December 2, 2005 | Rating: 2/4

Jami Bernard
New York Daily News
Little Man is an unusually honest film about the ambiguity of maternal love.

December 1, 2005 | Rating: 3.5/5

Dana Stevens
New York Times
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.

November 29, 2005 | Full Review…

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

November 3, 2005 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

Nick Schager
Slant Magazine
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.

December 6, 2005 | Rating: 2/5

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

December 6, 2005 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…

Rachel Gordon
Filmcritic.com
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.

December 2, 2005 | Rating: 2.5/4

Ken Fox
TV Guide
An emotionally powerful record of a remarkable little boy's fight to live.

December 2, 2005 | Rating: 3/4

Timothy Knight
Reel.com
Given the subject matter, this new world of manufactured disability, as Conn describes it, is often gripping and moving.

December 2, 2005 | Rating: 2.75/5 | Full Review…

Kent Turner
Film-Forward.com
An experiment in the brave new world of same-sex child-bearing goes badly and is turned into a film.

December 1, 2005 | Rating: 5/10

Ron Wilkinson
Monsters and Critics

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.

February 16, 2006 | Full Review…

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

December 2, 2005 | Rating: 1.5/4

V.A. Musetto
New York Post
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.

December 2, 2005 | Rating: 2/4

Jami Bernard
New York Daily News
Little Man is an unusually honest film about the ambiguity of maternal love.

December 1, 2005 | Rating: 3.5/5

Dana Stevens
New York Times
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.

December 6, 2005 | Rating: 2/5

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

December 6, 2005 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…

Rachel Gordon
Filmcritic.com
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.

December 2, 2005 | Rating: 2.5/4

Ken Fox
TV Guide
An emotionally powerful record of a remarkable little boy's fight to live.

December 2, 2005 | Rating: 3/4

Timothy Knight
Reel.com
Given the subject matter, this new world of manufactured disability, as Conn describes it, is often gripping and moving.

December 2, 2005 | Rating: 2.75/5 | Full Review…

Kent Turner
Film-Forward.com
An experiment in the brave new world of same-sex child-bearing goes badly and is turned into a film.

December 1, 2005 | Rating: 5/10

Ron Wilkinson
Monsters and Critics

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Audience Reviews for Little Man

Nov 21, 2007

The struggles that go on throughout the film, not just with the baby, but with the rest of the family and friends and especially Nicole is heart-wrenching to say the least. I highly recommend the film.

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