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FilmPG-132015

Little Boy

ComedyDramaWar

Directed by Alejandro Monteverde

An eight-year-old boy is willing to do whatever it takes to end World War II so he can bring his father home. The story reveals the indescribable love a father has for his little boy and the love a son has for his father. From TMDB

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Little Boy is a 2015 comedy drama war film, directed by Alejandro Monteverde, starring Jakob Salvati, Emily Watson and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa.

  • 12 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, TMDB reviews
  • posts span Nov 4, 2015 to Sep 2, 2026

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  • Jenn Nichole @jnichole0193.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 24, 2026

    Fat Man & Little Boy is a better film than Oppenheimer. Yeah, I said it.

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  • Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.socialBluesky · May 21, 2026

    This criticality accident was memorably dramatized in the 1989 film about the Manhattan Project, “Fat Man and Little Boy,” although in the film it takes place in 1945 before the first atomic bombs are dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and it lasts significantly longer than it did in reality.

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  • SailorTabbyCat ♡s TV★( ˘ ³˘)📺 @sailortabbycat.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 22, 2026

    Continuing my quest rewatching animated movies from my childhood tonight with Chicken Little. Boy howdy this movie is bad

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  • Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 13, 2026

    FUN FACT: Bran Ferren appears several times in the opening scenes of the film as a white-coated scientist named “Bran” in the “plutonium laser laboratory” he designed and built. (Among his many other film and theatrical credits, Ferren was also a technical consultant for “Fat Man and Little Boy.”)

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  • MorrisseyIsOkByMe @morrisseyisokbyme.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 22, 2026

    Morrissey Central shares George Rae's promo film re. Morrrissey;s 2 new 7-inch vinyl releases coming 16/10/2026. “Zoom Zoom The Little Boy” + “Kerching Kerching” each backed with unreleased music www.morrisseycentral.com/messagesfrom... www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lCW...

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  • Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 9, 2026

    While the UMBRELLA spray dome looks large, dwarfing the cargo ship in the photograph and the film above, the 8-kiloton explosion that produced it was just over half as large as the yield of “Little Boy,” the primitive gun-type atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima, Japan, less than 13 years earlier.

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  • MorrisseyIsOkByMe @morrisseyisokbyme.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 25, 2026

    Morrissey Unofficial Videos' glowing film using archival footage + clips of Lasse Hallström's 1985 Swedish drama, My Life as a Dog, for Zoom Zoom The Little Boy, off Morrissey's current album, Make-Up Is A Lie www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRw6... On MCentral www.morrisseycentral.com/messagesfrom...

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  • Odium Symposium @odiumsymposium.bsky.socialBluesky · May 19, 2026

    Our new episode is out for subscribers! Sarah and Helen review Little Boy, a disastrous film from the makers of the QAnon flavored hit Sound of Freedom. Along the way, they meet with a failed Mexican presidential candidate, as well as Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2.

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  • Torontoplex @torontoplex.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 4, 2024

    Today - Shakespeare flicks 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU and ROMEO + JULIET at Paradise, vamp romance TWILIGHT: BREAKING DAWN PT 2 at Revue, They Might Be Movies remembers another Oppenheimer film FAT MAN & LITTLE BOY at Eyesore Cinema. letterboxd.com/torontoplex/... #toRep

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  • Dalton @daltonherriott.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 6, 2023

    If you want a film solely about the development of the nuke then go watch Fat Man and Little Boy. It is another film with a star-studded cast and made by a well-received director

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  • Bill Geerhart @conelrad6401240.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 22, 2026

    "He has a volatile, interesting mind," Joffe says of Schultz... If you ever wondered how the A-TEAM's Dwight Schultz made his feature film debut as J. Robert Oppenheimer in FAT MAN AND LITTLE BOY (1989). Director Roland Joffe fought for him.

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  • Torontoplex @torontoplex.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 29, 2024

    On Deck at Eyesore Cinema - Patrick Stewart in SAFE HOUSE via 2Bad4U, Kurosawa's SEVEN SAMURAI via Film School Confidential, revenge flick SATYA via Butt's Backdoor Bollywood, 1989's take on the Oppenheimer story FAT MAN & LITTLE BOY. #toRep

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  • Shadetree Engineer @loonrman.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 2, 2026

    Google AI says it's a replica of 'Little Boy', so a movie prop.

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  • wildigital.bsky.social @wildigital.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 25, 2026

    I’m missing Tapeheads, Fat Man and Little Boy, Grand Piano and Maps to the Stars but I’d definitely put the three I mentioned above 2012, Max and It Happened One Night. How can a film called Hot Tub Time Machine be more scientific and plausible than a big budget like 2012?

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  • Today In Movies @todayinmovies.comBluesky · Apr 23, 2026

    🎬 The Top 4 Comedy Movies Released on April 23! What's your fave? 1. Assassination Classroom 2. Little Boy 3. Same Time, Next Year 4. Sliding Doors Check out all 51 movies released on this day at https://todayinmovies.com #TodayInMovies #Movies #Film #Comedy

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  • Reno @RanganTMDB reviews · Nov 4, 2015

    > About a little boy who believed he can change the world. I was two minded after seeing its trailer. Because I'm pretty much convinced it is a B movie. But that's not the issue, I usually put my faith on them and take my chances. So what bothered me was the film contents, because the trailed roughly reveals what kind of movie it is, from that I reckoned it should have been a big production house's product. Hence, I believed the visuals could be disastrous, but that was not the case. In fact,…

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