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Adapted from a short story by award-winning author Joyce Carol Oates, Small Avalanches is the gripping...
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a perfectly realized short film, absorbing & creepy
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(in credits order) | David Keeley | ... | The Man |
 | Ron Lea | ... | Uncle Winfield |
 | Max Vendrig | ... | Nancy |
 | Sheila McCarthy | ... | Nancy's Mother |
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| Lara Fitzgerald | |||
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| Lara Fitzgerald | screenplay | |
| Joyce Carol Oates | short story | |
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| Howard Fraiberg | .... | producer | |
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| Mark Caswell | |||
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| Michele Francis | |||
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| Greg A. Sager | .... | grip | |
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Canada:22 min
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Lara Fitzgerald's "Small Avalanches", adapted from a story by Joyce Carol Oates, is something of a small miracle - a perfectly realized short film. In little more than twenty minutes the director succeeds in depicting with stunning honesty the lazy nature of a rural summer day and the boredom that can consume a young person in their "tween" years. This achievement alone makes "Small Avalanches" worth watching, but in short order she then creates a progressively sinister scenario of a predatory male's efforts to capitalize on both the naive nature of a young girl and the isolation she finds herself in. Her idle walk home becomes all the more nerve wracking because she isn't fully aware just how bad this big bad wolf truly is. Max Vendrig and David Keely both play their parts without a false note in either performance, and the technical credits are first class. Here's an instance of watching a filmmaker achieve so much from so little, and that is the sort of talent that makes anyone who loves film look forward to enjoying what else they may create.