Little Boy (Blu-ray + DVD) PG-13
Believe the impossible.
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Blu-ray Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 3 hours, 34 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 18, 2015
- Originally Released: 2017
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jakob Salvati, Emily Watson, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Michael Rapaport, David Henrie, Eduardo Verástegui & Tom Wilkinson | |
Performer: | Kevin James, Ben Chaplin, Ted Levine, Abraham Benrubi, Toby Huss, Ali Landry, Candice Azzara & James DuMont | |
Directed by | Alejandro Monteverde | |
Produced by | Leo Severino & Eduardo Verástegui | |
Director of Photography: | Andrew Cadelago |
Entertainment Reviews:
While the story has some logical (not to mention theological) inconsistencies, it is well-paced, well-produced, and very well acted.
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WORLD
In addition to the always impressive Wilkinson, the cast includes another Oscar nominee, Emily Watson, who gives a grave and moving performance as the boy’s no-nonsense mother.
Hollywood Reporter
Rating: 40/100 --
Despite boasting several important moral lessons, the period piece is more artificial than a polyester teddy bear stuffed with Splenda and Cheez Whiz - and about as appealing
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TheWrap
The movie seems utterly and sincerely well-intentioned -- which is why what happens in it is so jaw-dropping.
BuzzFeed News
Rating: 1.5/4 --
It's meant to be a tale of uplift for faith-based audiences, but instead wears viewers down with a heavy-handed narrative, an overbearing score and voiceover that spells out everything in cringe-inducing, folksy tones.
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RogerEbert.com
Tolerance, World War II history and faith are served up with a sticky sentimental gloss in the family film "Little Boy."
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Los Angeles Times
[T]he most uplifting, hopeful and faith restoring film to come around in a long while.
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Behind The Lens
Product Description:
Little Pepper Busbee (Jakob Salvati) enjoys an idyllic life in an American small town, but his world is shattered when his beloved father (Michael Rapaport) is sent off to fight in World War II. But a chance encounter with a stage magician (Ben Chaplin) awakens his dormant abilities and clues him into the power of faith. Now his devotion to his father will extend past time and space and into the realm of miracles.