Little Birds (2011)

Lily and Alison face a life-changing event after they leave their Salton Sea home and follow the boys they meet back to Los Angeles.

Director:

Elgin James

Writer:

Elgin James

Stars:

Juno Temple, Kay Panabaker, Leslie Mann

2 wins & 2 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Juno Temple	...	Lily Hobart
Kay Panabaker	...	Alison Hoffman
Kate Bosworth	...	Bonnie Muller
Neal McDonough	...	Hogan
David Warshofsky	...	Joseph Hoffman
Leslie Mann	...	Margaret Hobart
Bob Larkin	...	Mr. Kovacs
Kathleen Gati	...	Sally Heron
Scotty Noyd Jr.	...	Ray Cawley
Kyle Gallner	...	Jesse MacNamara
Carlos PenaVega	...	Louis Estes (as Carlos Pena)
Chris Coy	...	David Riley
Lauren Pennington	...	Shawna Cawley (as Lauren Whitney Pennington)
Lydia Blanco Garza	...	Female Cashier (as Lydia Blanco)
Marc Rose	...	Man

Storyline

Lily and Alison face a life-changing event after they leave their Salton Sea home and follow the boys they meet back to Los Angeles.

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Plot Keywords:

attempted rape | sex scene | female nudity | bare breasts | woman in a bath | 

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Taglines:

How far would you go?

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Genres:

Drama

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for pervasive language, some violence including a sexual assault, sexuality/nudity, drug and alcohol use - all involving teens

Did You Know?

Trivia

Ryan Gosling is listed in the credits in gratitude for his cooperation.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Alison: [narrating] My best friend Lily thought she was drowning. Drowning in the Salton Sea. Even though the water was too polluted to set foot in, and left anything in their town either dying, or dead.
Margaret Hobart: Lily? Are you okay? Hello...
Alison: Lily was determined to never let it get her.
[drops down into the bath water and starts screaming]

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Soundtracks

Harder Feeling
Written and Performed by Tift Merritt
Published by Train Penny Publishing (BMI)
Courtesy of Fantasy Records
Used by permission of Concord Music Group Inc.

User Reviews

The two young lady birds that flew away from home

A fine opening for a first time director. I saw it specially for Juno Temple and her performance was the major plus point but her co-star attracted to my eyes. I liked Juno Temple very much in 'Dirty Girl' but afterwords she was good, also exposed her body consistently and I disliked it. Sometime we hate someone we admired do like that. She could have been a good actor liked by everybody including family audience if she does not expose much of her skin.

Anyway this movie was good, delivers a fine message and kinda a lesson to youngsters to learn. This was the story of two teenage girls Lily and Alison from a small town. Fifteen, the age of self discovering and curious about everything in the world, to find out what is future and where it will be. These girls are unhappy with their poverty and pollution town, so wanted to runaway. One day they meet the boys from Los Angeles and follows them. What comes to them is not as they expected and theirs response to the circumstance brings the curtain to the movie.

Good story and the movie looked realistic to me. The element about blackmail through social media was one of the highlights of the movie. It was based on actual happenings in everywhere like the movie 'Trust'. I am happy they used it very well for this movie. This independent drama about youngsters mistakes is totally worth seeing.

8/10

Details

Official Sites:

Official site

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

9 January 2016 (Japan)

Also Known As:

Goodnight Moon

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Box Office

Opening Weekend USA:

$4,574, 2 September 2012

Gross USA:

$17,739

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$17,739

Company Credits

Production Co:

Polsky Films, Hunting Lane Films, Sundial Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

94 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1