Little Boxes
Director: Rob Meyer
Writer: Annie J. Howell
Cast: Melanie Lynskey, Nelsan Ellis, Armani Jackson, Oona Laurence, Janeane Garofalo, Christine Taylor, Miranda McKeon, Maliq Johnson, Nadia Dajani, Veanne Cox
Seen on: 22.11.2021
Content Note: (critical treatment of) racism
Plot:
Mack (Nelsan Ellis), Nina (Melanie Lynskey) and their son Clark (Armani Jackson) are leaving New York City to move to a small town in Washington where Nina got a job as an art professor. Adjusting to their new situation isn’t easy, though. Nina struggles to learn the social rules at her college. Mack finds himself struggling to focus on his own work as a writer in the new environment. And Clark has to face being pretty much the only Black kid in town – as if being a teenage boy wasn’t complicated enough already. To make matters worse, the moving company is late and all of their stuff is missing. Maybe moving wasn’t such a good idea after all.
Little Boxes is a sweet film that lives off its vivid characters, and their understandable problems with the move. Do not watch it if you have to move yourself in the next few weeks, because you probably won’t want to do it anymore afterwards.
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