Little Boy (film)
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| Directed by | Alejandro Monteverde |
| Produced by | Leo Severino Eduardo Verástegui Alejandro Monteverde |
| Written by | Alejandro Monteverde Pepe Portillo |
| Starring | Jakob Salvati Emily Watson Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa Michael Rapaport David Henrie Eduardo Verástegui Ben Chaplin Tom Wilkinson |
| Music by | Stephan Altman Mark Foster |
| Cinematography | Andrew Cadelago |
| Edited by | Fernando Villena Meg Ramsay Joan Sobel |
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Metanoia Films
Santa Fé Films |
| Distributed by | Open Road Films |
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Running time
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107 minutes |
| Country | United States Mexico |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $20 million |
| Box office | $17.7 million |
Little Boy is a 2015 World War II war fantasy-drama film directed by Alejandro Gómez Monteverde. The screenplay is by Monteverde and Pepe Portillo, and the film was produced by Eduardo Verástegui and Leo Severino, edited by Joan Sobel and Fernando Villena. The film stars Jakob Salvati, Emily Watson, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Michael Rapaport, David Henrie, Ben Chaplin, Eduardo Verástegui, Ted Levine, Abraham Benrubi, Tom Wilkinson. The title is a reference to Little Boy, the code name for the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima as well as a reference to Pepper, the main character's height. The film was co-produced by Metanoia Films and Santa Fé Films and was released on April 24, 2015, by Open Road Films. It was released on DVD and Blu-ray on August 18, 2015 by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. The film received negative reviews from mainstream critics and it earned $17 million on a $20 million budget.
The title is a reference to Little Boy, the code name for the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima as well as a reference to the main character's height.
In the seaside town of O'Hare, California, an 8-year-old boy who is small for his age, Pepper Flynt Busbee (Jakob Salvati), has a very close relationship with his loving father, which begins from the very moment he is born when his father cradles him in his arms and noticess how small he is. When Pepper asks a doctor if he has dwarfism, the doctor tells him, "For now, Pepper, let's just say you're a 'little boy'," and the expression become Pepper's nickname. He would learn to despise those two words and always make a problem when someone would call out his nickname.
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