Fabulous!

Rating: 10/10 (13 January 2016)

What a great movie! It will make you laugh and cry and think. It takes place during World War II. Pepper/Little Boy is sad that his father has gone off to war, and he resents the only Japanese person in town, an older man named Hashimoto. Little Boy and his much older brother, London, try to vandalize Hashimoto's house. London is arrested. Little Boy's mother, played by Emily Watson, marches him to church to go to confession. Little Boy wants faith great enough to move mountains and bring his dad back from war. Father Oliver, played by Tom Wilkinson, gives him an ancient list and tells him, if he does all the things on the list, it will help grow his faith bigger. The list is the corporal works of mercy. Father Oliver adds one more: Little Boy must befriend Hashimoto. It is a heart warming and poignant story with many layers of meaning, beautifully filmed. It does look like Norman Rockwell on film. An amazing performance by Jakob Salvati, who plays Little Boy. How the director, Alejandro Monteverde, pulled such a performance out of a young child is truly remarkable. It is a movie for the entire family. Art illustrates beauty, truth, and goodness. "Little Boy" is art. I watched it on Netflix. It was filmed in Mexico.