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Name: Little Woods
Released: 2019-4-19
Cast: Tessa Thompson, Lily James, Luke Kirby, James Badge Dale, Lance Reddick

Little Woods

R
1h 44m
2019

95%

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Ollie (Tessa Thompson) is barely getting by in Little Woods, an economically depressed fracking boomtown in North Dakota. She has left her days of illegally running prescription pills over the Canadian border behind, eyeing a potential new job that would finally break her out of the small town. But when her mother dies, she is reunited with her estranged sister Deb (Lily James), who faces a mounting crisis: the combined effect of an unplanned pregnancy and a deadbeat ex (James Badge Dale). The two find they have one week to settle the mortgage on their mother's house or face foreclosure. As both bills and pressure mount, Ollie faces a choice: whether to return to a way of life she thought she'd left behind for just one more score or to leave it all behind.

Director:

Nia Dacosta

Producer:

Rachael Fung, Gabrielle Nadig, Tim Headington

Writer:

Nia Dacosta

Cast:

Tessa Thompson, Lily James, Luke Kirby, James Badge Dale, Lance Reddick

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

95%

Critics Consensus: Led by standout work from Tessa Thompson, Little Woods tells a grimly absorbing tale that marks a commendable debut for writer-director Nia DaCosta.

Reviews

CineWomen

Annlee Ellingson

[Director Nia] DaCosta deploy[s] handheld camerawork ... to bring intimacy to two women’s stories, whose personal collisions with addiction, abortion, the housing crisis, and the broken promise of the American dream are writ large.

DaCosta does a fantastic job – especially as a debut director – at finding the opportunities for cinematic moments in this sparse story. Even when the film does slow down, it never comes to a halt.

Before directing the Candyman sequel, Nia DaCosta made more plain the unforgiving horror that is the U.S. healthcare system in this woman-powered neo-western...

A slow-burning tale of poverty and limited options that gradually closes-in on the viewer with a claustrophobic sense of tension.

A humane film, one that's non-judgmental, even on the most sensitive of topics.

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