Directed by:
Nia DaCostaScreenplay:
Nia DaCostaCinematography:
Matt MitchellComposer:
Brian McOmberCast:
Lily James, Tessa Thompson, James Badge Dale, Lance Reddick, Luke Kirby, Morgana Shaw, Jeremy St. James, Gary Teague, Lawrence Varnado, Holt Boggs (more)VOD (1)
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Ollie (Tessa Thompson) is barely getting by in Little Woods, an economically depressed fracking boomtown in North Dakota. She has left her days of illegally running prescription pills over the Canadian border behind, eyeing a potential new job that would finally break her out of the small town. But when her mother dies, she is reunited with her estranged sister Deb (Lily James), who faces a mounting crisis: the combined effect of an unplanned pregnancy and a deadbeat ex (James Badge Dale). The two find they have one week to settle the mortgage on their mother's house or face foreclosure. As both bills and pressure mount, Ollie faces a choice: whether to return to a way of life she thought she'd left behind for just one more score, or to leave it all behind. Writer-director Nia DaCosta's debut is an emotionally charged small-town thriller that weaves themes of economic downturn and the opioid crisis into its intimate story of two sisters trying to get by. An unvarnished film anchored by an authentically drawn sibling bond, Little Woods speaks to both the biggest and smallest elements of the working-class struggle in rural America. (Madman Entertainment)
(more)Cast
Lily James
UK
Best movies:
Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company: Romeo and Juliet (2016) (theatrical recording)
Guerre et paix (2016) (series)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018)
Tessa Thompson
USA
Best movies:
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
Creed (2015)
James Badge Dale
USA
Best movies:
The Departed (2006)
Only the Brave (2017)
Iron Man 3 (2013)
Lance Reddick
USA
Best movies:
The Corner (2000) (series)
John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)
John Wick (2014)
Luke Kirby
Canada
Best movies:
The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005)
Mes vies de chien (2017)
Lost and Delirious (2001)
Morgana Shaw
Best movies:
Secondhand Lions (2003)
American Underdog (2021)
I Love You Phillip Morris (2009)
Jeremy St. James
Best movies:
Marfa Girl (2012)
Little Woods (2018)
Lazer Team (2015)
Gary Teague
USA
Best movies:
My All-American (2015)
Elvis and Anabelle (2007)
Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
Lawrence Varnado
USA
Best movies:
Sin City : J'ai tué pour elle (2014)
Little Woods (2018)
Language of a Broken Heart (2011)
Holt Boggs
USA
Best movies:
Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood (2022)
Bomb City (2017)
Sinners & Saints (2010)
Luci Christian
USA
Best movies:
Starship Troopers: Invasion (2012)
Little Woods (2018)
Joe Stevens
Best movies:
What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)
Secondhand Lions (2003)
True Grit (2010)
Rochelle Robinson
Best movies:
Little Woods (2018)
Mercy Black (2019)
Brandon Potter
USA
Best movies:
Little Woods (2018)
VFW (2019)