Little Wing (2024 film)

Last updated

Little Wing
Little Wing Release Poster.jpg
Release poster
Directed by Dean Israelite
Written by John Gatins
Based on"Little Wing"
by Susan Orlean
Produced by
  • Naomi Despres
  • John Gatins
Starring
CinematographyJeff Cutter
Edited byMartin Bernfeld
Music byAnne Nikitin
Production
company
Distributed by Paramount+
Release date
  • March 13, 2024 (2024-03-13)
Running time
99 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Little Wing is a 2024 American coming-of-age drama film directed by Dean Israelite and written by John Gatins. It stars Brooklynn Prince, Che Tafari, Kelly Reilly, and Brian Cox. It is based on the 2006 New Yorker magazine article of the same name by Susan Orlean.

Contents

Little Wing was released by Paramount+ on March 13, 2024.

Plot

Teenager Kaitlyn's parents have divorced. Her mother is ready to sell the family home. A family friend gives Kaitlyn two pigeons, and in studying the details of pigeon care and racing, Kaitlyn learns that a pigeon breeder with a valuable racing pigeon lives nearby. Kaitlyn and her best friend steal the pigeon and sell it to the Russian Pigeon Mafia, but the rightful owner finds her school bag on his roof, and so is able to track her down. Rather than turning her into the police, the breeder decides to work with Kaitlyn to recover the pigeon.

Cast

Production

In April 2023, it was announced that a coming-of-age drama film directed by Dean Israelite and written by John Gatins was in production for Awesomeness Films and Paramount+. It is based on the magazine article of the same name by Susan Orlean, who also served as an executive producer. The original article follows Sedona Murphy, a 13-year old-girl who raised homing pigeons in her South Boston backyard. [1]

Principal photography occurred in April 2023 in Portland, Oregon. [2] Some scenes were shot along the Hawthorne Bridge. [3]

Release

Little Wing was released by Paramount+ on March 13, 2024. [4]

Reception

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , 56% of 9 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 5/10. [5]

Adrian Horton of The Guardian awarded the film a score of two out of five, writing "Little Wing is overall an odd, unaffecting mess, other than, again, the pigeons, who look majestic on camera. Besides an overly serious Cox, there's little to distinguish it from the many throwaway titles unceremoniously released on streaming services". [6]

Related Research Articles

<i>Trouble in Paradise</i> (1932 film) 1932 film

Trouble in Paradise is a 1932 American pre-Code romantic comedy film directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, and Herbert Marshall. Based on the 1931 play The Honest Finder by Hungarian playwright László Aladár, the lead characters are a gentleman thief and a lady pickpocket who join forces to con a beautiful woman who is the owner of a perfume company. In 1991, Trouble in Paradise was selected for preservation by the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

<i>Terms of Endearment</i> 1983 drama film directed by James L. Brooks

Terms of Endearment is a 1983 American family comedy-drama film directed, written, and produced by James L. Brooks, adapted from Larry McMurtry's 1975 novel of the same name. It stars Debra Winger, Shirley MacLaine, Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Jeff Daniels, and John Lithgow. The film covers 30 years of the relationship between Aurora Greenway (MacLaine) and her daughter Emma (Winger).

<i>Adaptation</i> (film) 2002 American film

Adaptation is a 2002 American comedy-drama film directed by Spike Jonze and written by Charlie Kaufman. It features an ensemble cast led by Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, and Chris Cooper, with Cara Seymour, Brian Cox, Tilda Swinton, Ron Livingston, and Maggie Gyllenhaal in supporting roles.

<i>Little Children</i> (film) 2006 American film

Little Children is a 2006 American romantic psychological drama film directed by Todd Field. It is based on the 2004 novel of the same name by Tom Perrotta, who co-wrote the screenplay with Field. It follows Sarah Pierce, an unhappy housewife who has an affair with a married neighbor. Also starring are Jennifer Connelly, Jackie Earle Haley, Noah Emmerich, Gregg Edelman, Phyllis Somerville and Will Lyman.

<i>Dreamer</i> (2005 film) 2005 American film

Dreamer is a 2005 American sports drama film written and directed by John Gatins in his directorial debut. The film stars Kurt Russell, Kris Kristofferson, Elisabeth Shue and Dakota Fanning. It is inspired by the true story of an injured Thoroughbred racehorse named Mariah's Storm. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 10, 2005 and was theatrically released on October 21, 2005 by DreamWorks Pictures. The film received mixed reviews from critics, and earned $39.5 million on a $32 million budget. It also received a Critics' Choice Award nomination for Best Family Film.

<i>Blades of Glory</i> 2007 film directed by Josh Gordon and Will Speck

Blades of Glory is a 2007 American sports comedy film directed by Will Speck and Josh Gordon, written by Jeff Cox, Craig Cox, John Altschuler and Dave Krinsky, and starring Will Ferrell and Jon Heder with Will Arnett, Amy Poehler, William Fichtner, Jenna Fischer and Craig T. Nelson in supporting roles. It tells the story of a mismatched pair of banned figure skaters who become teammates upon discovering a loophole that will allow them to compete in the sport again. The film's story was conceived by Busy Philipps, who "fleshed out the screenplay". However, co-writers Jeff and Craig Cox dropped her name from the script. The film was produced by DreamWorks Pictures, MTV Films, Red Hour Films and Smart Entertainment and released on March 30, 2007, by Paramount Pictures. The film was met with positive reviews.

<i>Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story</i> 2007 US comedy film by Jake Kasdan

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story is a 2007 American comedy film directed by Jake Kasdan, and written by Kasdan and co-producer Judd Apatow. It stars John C. Reilly, Kristen Wiig, Tim Meadows and Jenna Fischer. A parody of the biopic genre, Walk Hard is the story of a fictional early rock and roll star played by Reilly.

<i>Untraceable</i> 2008 film by Gregory Hoblit

Untraceable is a 2008 American psychological thriller film directed by Gregory Hoblit and starring Diane Lane, Colin Hanks, Billy Burke, and Joseph Cross. It was distributed by Screen Gems.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Point Grey Pictures</span> American independent film production company

Point Grey (PGP) is an American film and television production company, founded in 2011 by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. The name of the company comes from Vancouver's Point Grey Secondary School, where Rogen and Goldberg met.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dean Israelite</span> South African film director

Dean Israelite is a South African film director, writer, and producer, best known for directing the found footage film Project Almanac, the 2017 reboot of Power Rangers, and the 2019 reboot of Are You Afraid of the Dark.

Yellowstone is an American neo-Western drama television series created by Taylor Sheridan and John Linson that premiered on June 20, 2018, on Paramount Network. The series stars Kevin Costner, Luke Grimes, Kelly Reilly, Wes Bentley, Cole Hauser, Kelsey Asbille, and Gil Birmingham. The series follows the conflicts along the shared borders of the Yellowstone Ranch, a large cattle ranch, the Broken Rock Indian reservation, Yellowstone National Park and land developers. The fifth season will be its last and is followed by a sequel series titled 2024. The first part of the fifth and final season premiered on November 13, 2022, with the second part scheduled to premiere on November 10, 2024.

<i>Pure Country: Pure Heart</i> 2017 American film

Pure Country: Pure Heart is a 2017 American country musical directed by Damon Santostefano. It is a standalone sequel to Pure Country 2: The Gift (2010), and the third and final installment in the Pure Country film series. The plot story of teenage sisters who go to Nashville when they discover their late father was a country music singer.

<i>Home Before Dark</i> (TV series) 2020 American mystery drama streaming series

Home Before Dark is an American mystery drama television series created by Dana Fox and Dara Resnik and produced for Apple TV+. The series is inspired by the life of young journalist Hilde Lysiak and stars Brooklynn Prince, Jim Sturgess, Abby Miller, Louis Herthum, Michael Weston, Kiefer O'Reilly, Kylie Rogers, Aziza Scott, Adrian Hough, Joelle Carter, Jibrail Nantambu, and Deric McCabe. It premiered on April 3, 2020. The second season premiered on June 11, 2021.

<i>Eli</i> (2019 film) 2019 American film by Ciarán Foy

Eli is a 2019 American horror film directed by Ciarán Foy from a screenplay by David Chirchirillo, Ian Goldberg, and Richard Naing, based on a story by Chirchirillo. It stars Kelly Reilly, Sadie Sink, Lili Taylor, Max Martini, and Charlie Shotwell. The film follows a boy with a rare autoimmune disease who is taken by his parents to a private medical facility to be cured.

<i>Dont Look Up</i> 2021 American film by Adam McKay

Don't Look Up is a 2021 American apocalyptic political satire black comedy film written, co-produced, and directed by Adam McKay from a story he co-wrote with David Sirota. It stars an ensemble cast featuring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Rob Morgan, Jonah Hill, Mark Rylance, Tyler Perry, Timothée Chalamet, Ron Perlman, Ariana Grande, Kid Cudi, Cate Blanchett, and Meryl Streep. The film tells the story of two astronomers attempting to warn humanity about an approaching comet that will destroy human civilization. The impact event is an allegory for climate change, and the film is a satire of government, political, celebrity, and media indifference to the climate crisis.

<i>South Park</i> season 24 Season of television series

The twenty-fourth season of the American animated sitcom South Park is the shortest season of the series, consisting of two extended-length episodes: "The Pandemic Special" and "South ParQ Vaccination Special". The production of the season and the topics of both episodes were shaped by the COVID-19 pandemic.

<i>Secret Headquarters</i> Film by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman

Secret Headquarters is a 2022 American superhero comedy film directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, who co-wrote the movie with Christopher L. Yost and Josh Koenigsberg, based on a story by Yost. Starring Owen Wilson, Walker Scobell, Jesse Williams, Keith L. Williams, Momona Tamada, Charles Melton, and Michael Peña, the plot follows a child (Scobell) and his friends who begins to suspect his father (Wilson) might be a superhero after discovering a secret headquarters in his basement.

<i>The Marsh Kings Daughter</i> 2023 film by Neil Burger

The Marsh King's Daughter is a 2023 American psychological thriller film directed by Neil Burger and written by Elle Smith and Mark L. Smith, based on the 2017 novel of the same name by Karen Dionne. It stars Daisy Ridley, Ben Mendelsohn, Garrett Hedlund, Caren Pistorius, Brooklynn Prince, and Gil Birmingham.

<i>No One Will Save You</i> 2023 film by Brian Duffield

No One Will Save You is a 2023 American science fiction horror film written, directed, and produced by Brian Duffield. The film stars Kaitlyn Dever as a young woman living alone, shunned by the local townspeople, who must fight off a home invasion that has unexpected consequences. It has only five words of dialogue spoken during its entire runtime.

References

  1. Grobar, Matt (April 19, 2023). "Bleecker Street Acquires U.S. Rights To Casey Affleck & Laurence Fishburne Starrer Slingshot". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved March 4, 2024.
  2. Jashayla, Pettigrew (March 13, 2024). "Portland-filmed movie starring Succession, Yellowstone actors heads to streaming". KOIN.com. Retrieved March 14, 2024.
  3. Turnquist, Kristi (March 23, 2023). "Movie filming in Portland in April is looking for extras, stand-ins, vehicles, and more". The Oregonian . Retrieved March 14, 2024.
  4. Fernandes, Elton (March 13, 2024). "Little Wing (2024) Streaming: Watch & Stream Online via Paramount Plus". ComingSoon.net . Retrieved March 14, 2024.
  5. "Little Wing". Rotten Tomatoes . Fandango Media . Retrieved March 28, 2024.
  6. Horton, Adrian (March 13, 2024). "Little Wing review – Brian Cox wasted in underwhelming YA drama". The Guardian . Retrieved March 14, 2024.