Synopsis
A couple fights to hold their relationship together as a memory loss virus spreads and threatens to erase the history of their love and courtship.
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Cast
- Olivia CookeEmma
- Jack O'ConnellJude
- SoKoSamantha
- Raúl CastilloBen
- David LennonTim
- Mackenzie CardwellCat Girl
- Ross WirtanenJude's Friend #1
- Heather DecksheimerJude's Friend #2
- Natalie SmithJude's Friend #3
- Ron RobinsonFisherman
Recommendations
- 90
The Hollywood Reporter
It makes a global crisis intensely personal, even romantic. - 80
Wall Street Journal
The result is better than smart, it’s stirring. - 75
Chicago Tribune
Hartigan has a knack for sensitive, human dramas, and while Little Fish takes place in a near-future heightened reality, the story is relatable not only because we’re all living through a pandemic ourselves, dealing with grief and loss on a scale that ranges from the deeply personal to the impossibly large, but because this kind of loss is also very real. - 75
The Associated Press
Talk about timing. When he began making Little Fish, an intimate and affecting romance in a sci-fi setting, director Chad Hartigan had no idea the world would be coping with a real pandemic in the real 2021. Watching this fictional society begin to fray in panic feels just a tad too close for comfort. - 75
RogerEbert.com
Little Fish would have left a lingering, wistful feeling under ordinary circumstances. Debuting during a pandemic, however, adds a layer of poignancy to this story of a worldwide virus that causes memory loss, creating loneliness and isolation for both its victims and their loved ones. - 75
Entertainment Weekly
Obsessed though it is with the past, throughout its whole runtime, the best part always lies ahead. - 70
The New York Times
Once you’re swept up in Emma and Jude’s romance — it’s not hard, even though the montages veer a little too precious — the skimmed-over science matters little. This is sci-fi rooted more in feelings than fact. Its resonance is similar to “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” though it’s arguably antithetical in plot. - 70
Variety
A portrait of life’s impermanence, it’s a bittersweet small-scale saga whose occasional sluggishness is offset by its sensitivity.
