
Despite dissimilarities, two middle-school boys from one-child households (Jake and Tony) form a natural friendship when Jake moves with family into his recently deceased grandfather's Brooklyn apartment above the dress shop business of Tony's mother. Extrovert Tony plays soccer, desires to become an actor (like Jake's father) and is sociable, while introvert Jake likes to draw, build his portfolio and be somewhat reclusive. Their best friend status is challenged by Jake's pa... (Full plot summary below)
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Despite dissimilarities, two middle-school boys from one-child households (Jake and Tony) form a natural friendship when Jake moves with family into his recently deceased grandfather's Brooklyn apartment above the dress shop business of Tony's mother. Extrovert Tony plays soccer, desires to become an actor (like Jake's father) and is sociable, while introvert Jake likes to draw, build his portfolio and be somewhat reclusive. Their best friend status is challenged by Jake's parents inheriting ownership of the building where Tony's mother runs her dress business, asking for three times the rent she previously paid within the upscaling neighborhood. The boys retaliate with silence, but it will likely not be enough.
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| The New York TimesA.O. ScottIt’s a subtle movie, alert to the almost imperceptible currents of feeling that pass between its title characters. |
| Screen InternationalFionnuala HalliganThe remarkable, magical thing about this film is that, at 85 minutes, it’s so whole. With its fully-formed people and changing places, Little Men is a film a viewer can live in, and think about while they’re there. |
| Associated PressLindsey BahrIts smallness makes it grand and moving. These are the things, these little moments, decisions and consequences that most human lives are made of, after all. |
| Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlSachs, a clear-eyed humanist, honors all his characters' pained perspectives. |
| CineVueMatthew AndersonSachs' extraordinarily humane knack for emotional restraint echoes throughout Little Men. And it is all the more profound for it. |
| GuardianNigel M. SmithSachs’ approach is so humane, and his characters so fully rendered, that an agenda never announces itself; instead, Sachs’ worldview seeps into you. He’s that skilled a film-maker. |
| The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyThe performances are impeccable. Sachs is a master of expressive understatement, and that applies both to the young actors playing the boys — there's not a false moment from either of them — and to the adults. |
| Washington City PaperTricia OlszewskiIn Little Men, director Ira Sachs demonstrates how a pebble dropped in a puddle can create a tsunami. |
| Little White LiesTrevor JohnstonThe film's sheer delicacy exerts a continuing fascination. |
| Hot PressRoe McDermottAlongside Woody Allen's neurotic humour and Scorsese's blistering grit, Sachs is becoming a quintessential New York director, capturing the heart of this great city. |