Synopsis
An eight-year-old boy is willing to do whatever it takes to end World War II so he can bring his father home. The story reveals the indescribable love a father has for his little boy and the love a son has for his father.
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Cast
- Jakob SalvatiPepper Flynt Busbee / Little Boy
- Emily WatsonEmma Busbee
- Cary-Hiroyuki TagawaHashimoto
- Michael RapaportJames Busbee
- David HenrieLondon Busbee
- Ben ChaplinBen Eagle
- Eduardo VerásteguiFr. Crispin
- Ted LevineSam
- Ali Landry MonteverdeAva
- Abraham BenrubiTeacup
Recommendations
- 75
Observer
There is a lot to admire here. Writer-director Alejandro Monteverde (Bella) is not afraid to take his time letting you get to know the characters or moving things along, but the movie never seems ponderous. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
What makes it intermittently palatable even to non-believers is that it acknowledges some of the darker truths of the era. - 50
Slant Magazine
It conveys life experience to such a sentimentalized degree that the world comes to resemble only the sham of a Norman Rockwell painting. - 50
Movie Nation
Little Boy is loaded with weighty subjects and teachable moments, all doled out between generous helpings of tragedy and sentiment. It’s ambitious, but a cluttered weeper whose lessons might have stuck, had there been fewer of them. - 30
Screen Daily
A drearily sincere movie about faith and tolerance, Little Boy boasts plenty of good intentions but very little else. - 25
New York Post
Though Wilkinson gives an atypically restrained performance that lends the movie its best moments, and Watson manages to breathe a little life into her underwritten character, the movie is hopelessly simple-minded, with corny fantasy sequences, slathered-on folksiness and a plot twist that it would take a miracle of self-delusion not to see coming. - 25
The A.V. Club
A colossal miscalculation in audience uplift. - 20
Variety
The problem here isn’t theological; even if it were in service of a different message entirely, the sheer gracelessness of Monteverde’s storytelling would be a massive turnoff.
