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Ordinary melodrama
- Lots of bad stuff happens to honest, hard-working Rust Belt folk in “Little Accidents,” a sensitive and well-meaning but rather ordinary melodrama that wouldn’t have seemed out of place as a network movie-of-the-week circa 1985.
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Jan 23, 2014 · Sundance Film Review: ‘Little Accidents’. A mining accident ensnares an entire town in a web of tragedy and lies in this sensitive but ordinary Rust Belt melodrama. By Scott Foundas. Lots of...
The website's consensus reads, "Little Accidents has good intentions -- and a talented cast, led by Elizabeth Banks -- but it drowns them under dour melodrama." [13] Metacritic gave the film a weighted average score of 56 out of 100, based on 18 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".
- Little Accidents (short film), by Sara Colangelo
Jan 15, 2015 · Set and shot in a small coal-mining town in West Virginia, this earnest, well-intentioned melodrama creates a number of potentially compelling figures, only to shove them into contrived corners that undermine the film’s sense of authenticity. It’s as if The Sweet Hereafter had been infected by Babel.
Jul 8, 2014 · Summarized like that, the set-up does seem overstuffed, but Colangelo deserves credit for tamping down the potential for melodrama, getting restrained performances from her whole cast and largely ...
Jan 16, 2015 · Written and directed by Sara Colangelo, here making her feature debut, “Little Accidents” is quietly earnest, handsomely produced, and too dramatically inert and dogged by the commonplace to make much of an impact beyond conveying the dreariness (as opposed to the dread) of life in a coal-mining town.
"Little Accidents" is a melodrama in which various interest groups are diametrically opposed to each other. On the one hand you have the working people whose lives depend on whether or not they close the Bonford Coal Company.
Jan 16, 2015 · Directed by Sara Colangelo. Drama. Not Rated. 1h 45m. By Manohla Dargis. Jan. 15, 2015. The sympathetic young actor Jacob Lofland lights up the American independent movie “ Little Accidents ,”...
