Drama

Little Men

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Water's End Productions

RT Features

Brazil

Greece

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Greg Kinnear

Jennifer Ehle

Paulina García

Michael Barbieri

Theo Taplitz

Talia Balsam

Maliq Johnson

Anthony A. Flamminio

Madison Wright

John Procaccino

Mauricio Bustamante

Alfred Molina

Ching Valdes-Aran

Stan Carp

Stella Schnabel

Yolonda Ross

Leah C. Gardiner

Derek Johnson

Teeka Duplessis

Clare Foley

Renaldo Napolitano

Elia Monte-Brown

Chinasa Ogbuagu

Alden Song

Bryan Webster

Andy Karl

Melanie Mahanna

Kevin D. McGee

Arthur J. Nascarella

Johnny Serret

Ira Sachs

Mauricio Zacharias

Grace Colby

Bryan Hughes

Vanessa Haroutunian

Matthew Helderman

Christos V. Konstantakopoulos

Jim Lande

Tom Dolby

Joe Kobzan

David Kyle

Joe Della Monica

Dom Genest

Lucas Joaquin

Franklin S. Zitter

Barrie Golden

Jisun Jamie Kim

Daniella Kahane

Mark Levinson

Joe Aliberti

Nicole Ihasz

Andy Pargh

Blythe Robertson

Meetu Chilana

Jonathan Montepare

Patrick DePeters

Andrew Drabkin

Cathleen Ihasz

Jeffrey Leving

Lars Knudsen

Sophie Mas

Luke Taylor

Larry Tsai

Mandy Ward

Walter J. Wiacek

Jay Van Hoy

L.A. Teodosio

Tracy Scott Nadler

Rodrigo Teixeira

Hugh Schulze

Melissa Pinsly

Lourenço Sant'Anna

Michael Messmer

Affonso Gonçalves

Dickon Hinchliffe

Emily Deason

Óscar Durán

Mollie Goldstein

Jeong Park

Ramsey Scott

Alexandra Schaller

Veronica Lupu

Avy Kaufman

Eden Miller

Lauren Crawford

Dan Bricker

Andy Kris

Damian Volpe

Naomi Raddatz

Dani Broom-Peltz

Reno

**Friendship or business!**

This is a pure drama. Like a real life event, though there's no documentary style narration influenced. Thematically very, very simple, and also the characters, but too flat when it comes to entertainment value. Of course, drama-films usually does not entertain its viewers, except for who are ardent fans of that genre. Apart from depicting the real life, sometimes they carry messages with them. But this film has no tick marks on any of those boxes. So it is a boring film if you pick it to watch when you're on the average or in the bad mood. I did not feel that way, just hinting out it could do that for others.

The storyline had no focal point. It is neither a children's film, nor about the grownups' issues. But kind of mix of both on a small scale with strong outcome. Pretty much like on the two topics it was developed on. One was the 'death' which initiated everything and followed by the 'shop' that helped to make further progress in the tale. So using these, the film characters bloomed. Even though, these topics come into play occasionally and in the meantime, the scenes were wasted or you can say it followed the character to their daily routine to fill the film runtime.

So what's that mean is the screenplay, which was not at its best. It does not follow the traditional film way on the character developments. Like I expected the friendship between two boys like how they find each other as to emerge a strong bond. That did not happen. It was just like I said in the real life, too casual and understandable.

The same goes for the adult characters as well. When they decide to handle the shop issue, it was like hesitation like any average concerned family does. So this film will be good if your life is/was close to the events in the film. Like either it is your friendship that tested or dealing the sensitive issue as a grown-up that affects deeply those concerned ones.

> ❝Once again, our warm, lovable, unwise father has left us a big mess and no instructions.❞

Now you might think what this film is all about. This is the story of the two families connected with a building. Opens with a small Manhattan family arriving in Brooklyn to conduct the last rite to their deceased father. They are received by another family who rented the shop in the ground floor. Both the family has the young boys of the same age and following the ceremony, the two become very close. But when their parents decide to sort out the shop issue, it's all fall hard on them and their friendship. The remaining is to reveal the outcome of whatever happened.

You might be familiar with the quote that goes like this, 'a friendship founded on business in better than a business founded on friendship'. Basically, that's where the film inspired from. But it expanded to two sets of the characters, between the youngsters and the adults. These two categories are exactly opposite in mindset. Youngsters usually does not care about money that involves friends, but for adults, money is a serious matter to handle. The 'business' is attached to the parents and the 'friendship' drawn between their children.

Now that's the complication involves as many people as to solve without affecting anybody. But most of the film was overwhelmed by scenes of other than this issue. They ignored to focus completely on where it had calibre. I felt the casting was the best thing happened in the film, particularly those boys. Alfred Molina, who played one of the main characters in the director's previous film was appeared here in a guest role for like a minute. The rest of them were decent as well, including Greg Kinnear.

The film was just under the 90 minutes, yet too slow paced narration. Does not fit for everyone to watch. Imagine if this film was played on the television, with all the commercial breaks, you won't able to finish it off. Not without patience, because it is already dull, and if you will run out that, that's it. A lot like a product for the film festivals and it did fared decently on those platforms, but surely some people would find it good. So now you might think what my stance is. I liked it, also didn't. An average film with a slipped away opportunity. I am not sure, but still feel like I want to suggest it.

_5/10_

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