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Little Birds
Directed by
Elgin James
R
2011
1h 34m
Drama
6.1
59%
42%
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Lily and Alison face a life-changing event after they leave their Salton Sea home and follow the boys they meet back to Los Angeles.
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Cast of Little Birds
Juno Temple
Lily Hobart
Kay Panabaker
Alison Hoffman
Kyle Gallner
Jesse MacNamara
Neal McDonough
Hogan
Leslie Mann
Margaret Hobart
Kate Bosworth
Bonnie Muller
David Warshofsky
Joseph Hoffman
Chris Coy
David Riley
JR Bourne
John
Joel McKinnon Miller
Michael White
Scotty Noyd Jr.
Ray Cawley
Kathleen Gati
Sally Heron
Lauren Pennington
Shawna Cawley
Mike Erwin
Mark Muller
Carlos PenaVega
Louis
Lydia Blanco Garza
Female Cashier
Mighty Swag
Boy at skate park
Elgin James
Director / Writer
Alan Polsky
Producer
Jamie Patricof
Producer
Gabe Polsky
Producer
Little Birds Ratings & Reviews
IONCINEMA.com
Nicholas Bell
A Sundance Lab creation, Elgin James' debut, Little Birds is a strong first effort, one borne primarily from an interesting mutation of the professed director's own life experiences.
Bust Magazine
Olivia Saperstein
What helps Little Birds retain its innocence is the girls' mixed sense of fear and liberation that comes from their new experience.
Sly Fox
Kam Williams
Quirky tale of female empowerment about coming of age on L.A.'s mean streets.
Los Angeles Times
Betsy Sharkey
Though the plotting is problematic and at times as lost as the kids, there are bursts of brilliance and moments of aching vulnerability in "Little Birds" that make you wonder what the filmmaker might do next.
SSG Syndicate
Susan Granger
Fragile tale of how a lifelong friendship forged between two innocent girls is tested when they venture into a volatile, violent world.
Common Sense Media
S. Jhoanna Robledo
Teen girls seek respite from bleak life in mature drama.
New York Post
Farran Smith Nehme
The dreamy shots of a poisoned sea in "Little Birds" show an imagination sorely missing from its drab plot and characters.
NPR
Ian Buckwalter
Despair may be an emotion of emptiness, of the absence of hope, but that doesn't mean a movie about someone spiraling down into that emotion has to feel so empty as well.
Film Journal International
Doris Toumarkine
Coming-of-age, semi-autobiographical drama has flashes of adventure and danger, but too much 'So what?'.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
There's a moralistic structure there, but it leaves Lily in a place that's scarcely more reassuring than the one she first abandoned. That's what makes Little Birds not just a lesson but, in its rambling way, an organic journey.
Paste Magazine
Michael Dunaway
Temple, in particular, is headed for stardom.
New York Daily News
Like its teenage heroine, "Little Birds" is stubbornly convinced of its own unique profundity. So it's a good thing this moodily self-absorbed drama redeems itself with just enough endearing innocence.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
It is hard not to be reminded of other movies - like Larry Clark's "Kids," Nick Cassavetes's "Alpha Dog," Andrea Arnold's "Fish Tank" - that explore similar territory with greater risk and originality.
TheWrap
Alonso Duralde
Temple can, by this point, play the role in her sleep -- and she kind of does.
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
The dialogue is as stock as the characters, and James's visual palette never surpasses the adequate.
MSN Movies
Glenn Kenny
Little Birds is strong evidence of a real talent...
Slant Magazine
Nick Schager
Juno Temple's Lily is a damaged creature trying to fly in Little Birds, a film of precious, romanticized misery and squalor.
The Hollywood Reporter
John DeFore
Debut by writer/director Elgin James offers a sensitive but not fragile look at young friends in a crisis.
Variety
Peter Debruge
Little Birds is such a typical Sundance movie you almost don't need to see it to know where it's headed. To skip, however, would be to miss the arrival of promising new helmer Elgin James and gifted up-and-comer Juno Temple.
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