The Little Things

Summary: Kern County Deputy Sheriff Joe Deacon is sent to Los Angeles for what should have been a quick evidence-gathering assignment. Instead, he becomes embroiled in the search for a serial killer who is terrorizing the city.

Release Date: January 29, 2021

Genres: Drama, Crime, Mystery

Director: John Lee Hancock

Writer: John Lee Hancock

Runtime: 2 h 08 min

MPAA: R

Production: Gran Via, Warner Bros.

Distributor: HBO Max, Netflix

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 30,000,000

Domestic: $ 15,342,746

International: $ 15,500,000

Box office:

Budget:$30MDomestic:$15.3MInternational:$15.5MWorldwide:$30.8M

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22%

The Rotten Tomatoes audience rated this 22% higher than the critics.

45%67%

The Metacritic audience rated this 3% higher than the critics.

Metacritic Meta:

54/100

Metacritic User:

57/100

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44% of the Stars & Main Cast are Female.

47% of the Stars & Main Cast are "diverse."

White52.94%Black17.65%Latino11.76%Arab5.88%Asian5.88%Mixed / Other5.88%

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Violence4/5
Sex3/5
Language4/5
Consumerism1/5
Drugs1/5

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african american protagonist answering a pay phone appliance repairman b word bar bearded man beer black american blood body bag breaking and entering broken refrigerator budweiser beer bullet fragment burning evidence bus cafe car chase character says i love you chase climbing down a drain pipe coffee cold case comparing bite marks confession of a crime convenience store convertible cop drama covered in blood crime buff crime scene criminal investigation dead body deception deputy sheriff desert detective digging a grave digging through garbage drinking beer from a bottle drive thru evidence ex husband ex wife relationship falling to one's knees father daughter relationship fear female coroner female detective female full frontal nudity female nudity female rear nudity filling station fingerprint fire in a steel barrel flash forward flashback flashlight following a car following someone footprints for sale sign forensics freeway gas station gate gentleman's club guilt gun hair barrette hallucination handcuffed man handcuffs hands on top of one's head haunted by the past hit on the head holding hands up in the air home movie hotel hotel desk clerk hotel room human bite husband wife relationship interviewing a suspect investigation jogging woman kern county california killed with a shovel knife knife held to someone's throat knocking on a door knocking on a glass door last meal lie listening to a car radio listening to music on a car radio little girl looking at oneself in a mirror looking out a window los angeles california man wears boxer shorts man wears eyeglasses man wears sunglasses man with long hair microphone milk mirror missing person missing woman morgue motel murder murder investigation murder of a prostitute mustached man newspaper newspaper headline nickname no opening credits off duty oil derrick overhead camera shot pager pat down pay phone pay phone ringing peeping tom pet dog phone call from suspect photograph pizza box pizza slice police police car police detective police officer police officer kills suspect police procedural crime police radio police scanner police sergeant police station police work postmortem morbidity power outage press conference prologue prostitute pursuit questioning rearview mirror red hair barrette reference to columbo reference to dick tracy reference to kojak reference to no doubt reference to ricardo leyva munoz 'night stalker' ramirez reflection in a window refrigerator refrigerator repairman religious cross running in the path of a car running woman san bernardino county california scene of the crime search semi truck sense of smell serial killer serial killer crime serial killer m.o.serial murder sheriff sheriff's department singing along to music on a car radio singing in a car sleeplessness stabbing death stakeout street life strip club surveillance suspense mystery swimming pool tailing a suspect talking to a dead body team work telephone telephone call telephone conversation timeframe 1990s timeframe 20th century title spoken by character traffic jam trap door in the floor two way mirror unmarked grave used appliance store vandalism waking up alone in bed whodunnit mystery woman wears eyeglasses writer director producer written by director year 1985 year 1990

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This film gets a 1/5 family friendly score

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Commonsensemedia Rating https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/the-little-things last updated: 2024-10-26Update data
Message 0/5	Movie is mainly about covering things up, lying, becoming obsessed and putting the object of obsession ahead of things like family.
Role model 0/5	Two main characters are police officers but aren't positive role models. One is covering up a dreadful secret that's ruined his life, the other looks to be heading down that road. Movie was originally written in early 1990s, well before #MeToo movement, and you can tell: Women are generally either sidelined or victimized.
Violence 4/5	Bloody corpse. Blood spatters. Dead bodies. One character hits another in the head with a shovel. Gory crime scene photos. Woman threatened by unseen stalker.
Sex 3/5	Fully exposed naked female corpses. Brief view of naked breasts on female corpse. Sex workers on sidewalk in front of cheap hotel. Sex-related dialogue.
Language 4/5	Many uses of "f--k," plus "s--t," "son of a bitch," "damn," "bastard," "d--k," "butt," "balls," and "boned."
Consumerism 1/5	Black Angus steakhouse shown. Busch beer shown.
Drugs 1/5	Main characters have a drink in a bar. Background drinking. Mention of having a "few beers."

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