Little Birds
A restless teen (Juno Temple) and her best friend (Kay Panabaker) face a life-changing event after they leave their Salton Sea home to head to Los Angeles, where she hopes to find the skateboarder (Kyle Gallner) with whom she experienced her first kiss.
9 March 1929, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
16 February 1999, Inkster, Michigan, USA
8 April 1970, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2 January 1983, Los Angeles, California, USA
6 June 1976, Liverpool, England, UK
15 August 1989, Columbia, Missouri, USA
23 February 1961, San Francisco, California, USA
October 05, 2016
What helps Little Birds retain its innocence is the girls' mixed sense of fear and liberation that comes from their new experience.
December 29, 2012
Quirky tale of female empowerment about coming of age on L.A.'s mean streets.
August 30, 2012
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.
September 04, 2012
Teen girls seek respite from bleak life in mature drama.
August 29, 2012
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.
August 31, 2012
The dreamy shots of a poisoned sea in "Little Birds" show an imagination sorely missing from its drab plot and characters.
August 29, 2012
It is hard not to be reminded of other movies - like Larry Clark's "Kids," Nick Cassavetes's "Alpha Dog," Andrea Arnold's "Fish Tank" - that explore similar territory with greater risk and originality.
August 29, 2012
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.
June 10, 2016
There have been a bunch of films about teen girls with a wild streak getting in over their heads, and Little Birds isn't all that different, though it does have a bit more of a sense that this is the teen feeling it, not the adult looking back.
August 30, 2012
Coming-of-age, semi-autobiographical drama has flashes of adventure and danger, but too much 'So what?'.
September 13, 2012
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.
September 08, 2012
Fragile tale of how a lifelong friendship forged between two innocent girls is tested when they venture into a volatile, violent world.
