Little Joe

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  • 1hr 40m
  •  (1)
  • 60

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Movie Info & Cast

Director:

Jessica Hausner

Producer:

Philippe Bober, Mary Burke, Bertrand Faivre

Writer:

Géraldine Bajard, Jessica Hausner

Release Date:

Dec 6, 2019

Runtime:

1hr 40m

Synopsis

LITTLE JOE follows Alice (Emily Beecham), a single mother and dedicated senior plant breeder at a corporation engaged in developing new species. She has engineered a special crimson flower, remarkable not only for its beauty but also for its therapeutic value: if kept at the ideal temperature, fed properly and spoken to regularly, this plant makes its owner happy. Against company policy, Alice takes one home as a gift for her teenage son, Joe. They christen it 'Little Joe.' But as their plant grows, so too does Alice's suspicion that her new creation may not be as harmless as its nickname suggests.

Cast

  • Emily Beecham
  • Ben Whishaw
  • Kerry Fox
  • Kit Connor
  • Phénix Brossard
  • Leanne Best
  • Andrew Rajan
  • David Wilmot
  • Goran Kostic
  • Yana Yanezic

Did You Know?

Trivia

  • French visa # 151913.
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Goofs

  • The plant, "Little Joe", has no leaves, so that it cannot produce chlorophyll.
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Based on 25 Critics
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USER SCORE (8)

Mixed or average reviews based on 8 Reviews
67
Dec 12, 2019

Little Joe could use a trim for better deployment of plot and unnerving atmosphere. No matter. Little Joe is a quirkily rattling movie, an off-kilter tonic during the year-end onslaught of movies proclaimed “important” by their studios, and what the film lacks in structure it makes up for in its eerie, cold singularity.

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Andrew Crump
Paste Magazine
70
May 17, 2019

Boldly synthetic in its approach, in everything from colour palette to performance style, this film won’t be for everyone. And the fact that it defies easy categorisation might present a marketing challenge. But for those who engage with it, this oddly off-kilter piece of storytelling should exert a pull every bit as mesmerising as any genetically modified mood-enhancing shrub.

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Wendy Ide
Screen Daily
20
May 17, 2019

A lifeless, tone-deaf variation on Invasion of the Body Snatchers. ... There’s just nothing going on here with which to engage your interest, nor is there a single moment to even slightly increase the viewer’s pulse rate.

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Todd McCarthy
The Hollywood Reporter
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