Little Birds (2012)
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53% of critics liked it
(19 reviews) -
43% of users liked it
(1,914 ratings)
Fifteen-year-old Lily and her best friend, Alison, live on the shores of the Salton Sea. Sprinting toward adulthood, Lily wants to escape her depressing hometown. But Alison is content with her life; she enjoys being sheltered from the uncertainty of growing up. When the girls meet three street… More Fifteen-year-old Lily and her best friend, Alison, live on the shores of the Salton Sea. Sprinting toward adulthood, Lily wants to escape her depressing hometown. But Alison is content with her life; she enjoys being sheltered from the uncertainty of growing up. When the girls meet three street kids, Lily convinces Alison to follow the boys to Los Angeles. Thrust into a world of excitement and danger, the girls must decide how far they are willing to go to get what they want. -- (C) Official Site
- Directed By
- Elgin James
- Genres
- Drama
R,
- In Theaters
- Aug 31, 2012 Limited
- Studio
- Millenium Entertainment
Critic Reviews
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Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times
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.
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Farran Smith Nehme, New York Post
The dreamy shots of a poisoned sea in "Little Birds" show an imagination sorely missing from its drab plot and characters.
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Ian Buckwalter, NPR
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.
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Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
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.
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, 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.
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Cast
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Juno Temple
as Lily Hobart
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Kay Panabaker
as Alison Hoffman
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Leslie Mann
as Margaret Hobart
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Kate Bosworth
as Bonnie Muller
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Kyle Gallner
as Jesse McNamara
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Chris Coy
as David Riley
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Neal McDonough
as Hogan
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Carlos Pena
as Louis Estes
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JR Bourne
as John Gretton
