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Giant Little Ones (2018)

Giant Little Ones poster
Directed by
Keith Behrman
Genre
drama film, LGBTQ-related film
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 33m
Rated
R
Rating
7.1 of 10 from 303 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A teenage boy and his male best friend have an intimate encounter after a party. This event upends the lives of the boy and his parents as they deal with the aftermath.

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What happens

Giant Little Ones is a 2018 Canadian drama film written and directed by Keith Behrman. The film stars Josh Wiggins, Kyle MacLachlan and Maria Bello as a teenage boy and his parents, whose lives are upended after the boy and his male best friend are involved in an intimate incident after a party. The film was shot in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, in 2017. It premiered on September 9 at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival, and received a limited release in the United States on March 1, 2019. In December 2018, the TIFF named the film to its annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list. Behrman won the Vancouver Film Critics Circle award for Best Screenplay for a Canadian Film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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