Vacationing Japanese siblings (Atsuko Okatsuka, Rintaro Sawamoto) become stranded in a California desert town but soon warm up to life in the dusty burg.
Release Date: September 2nd, 2011
DVD Release Date: April 10th, 2012
Not Yet Rated |1 hr 23 min
Plot SummaryVacationing Japanese siblings (Atsuko Okatsuka, Rintaro Sawamoto) become stranded in a California desert town but soon warm up to life in the dusty burg.
Cast: Atsuko Okatsuka, Rintaro Sawamoto, Brett L. Tinnes, Cory Zacharia, Roberto Sanchez, Matthew Fling, Ivy Khan, Lee Lynch
Director: Mike Ott
Genres: Drama
Atsuko OkatsukaRintaro SawamotoBrett L. TinnesCory ZachariaNot often have I been more certain of the direction a movie is heading, or more wrong. Littlerock, a sensitive indie feature by Mike Ott, plays fair. I was misled only by my own cynicism. show more
Not until the film's surprisingly touching finale do we learn the source of that friction, in a delicately handled sequence that retroactively floods the story with satisfying context. show more
Littlerock could easily be described as the flip side of "Lost in Translation": Instead of Americans struggling to communicate in Japan, it's the Japanese who are out of the loop when they get stranded in the outer, outer fringes of the Los Angeles area. show more
