MoviesPrix

HomeMoviesSearchTV SeriesBookmarksView Source
Little Boxes
Little Boxes

Little Boxes

Genres

ComedyDrama

OverView

It's the summer before 6th grade, and Clark is the new-in-town biracial kid in a sea of white. Discovering that to be cool he needs to act 'more black,' he fumbles to meet expectations, while his urban intellectual parents Mack and Gina also strive to adjust to small-town living. Equipped for the many inherent challenges of New York, the tight-knit family are ill prepared for the drastically different set of obstacles that their new community presents, and soon find themselves struggling to understand themselves and each other in this new suburban context.

Others

Budget

$--

Revenue

$--

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Runtime

84 mins

Rating

6.145/10

Release Date

14 April 2017

Country

United States of America

Cast

Melanie Lynskey

Melanie Lynskey

Gina

Nelsan Ellis

Nelsan Ellis

Mack

Armani Jackson

Armani Jackson

Clark

Oona Laurence

Oona Laurence

Ambrosia

Janeane Garofalo

Janeane Garofalo

Helena

Nadia Dajani

Nadia Dajani

Maya

Veanne Cox

Veanne Cox

Sarita

Miranda McKeon

Miranda McKeon

Julie

Julie Hays

Julie Hays

Dean Maureen

David Ebert

David Ebert

Tom

Christine Taylor

Christine Taylor

Joan Reed

Colin Critchley

Colin Critchley

Nigel Fishponds Kid

Similar Movies

4.3

Making of a Male Model

October 1983 •English

Kay Dillon, a successful modeling agent, meets the young and handsome ranch hand Tyler Burnett in Nevada. She can't help but notice his incredible good looks and invites him to move to New York and start working for her as a male model. Burnett accepts the invitation and goes to New York to start his modeling career. But Tyler longs for more in life: a woman to love and his own ranch. Can he remain the biggest male model in the industry, and still get his heart's desires? Is Kay the woman to give all that to him?

5.6

Inside

March 2023 •English

An art thief trapped in a New York penthouse after his heist doesn't go as planned. Locked inside with nothing but priceless works of art, he must use all his cunning and invention to survive.

0.0

Out of Breath

April 2022 •English

After a confrontation leaves a racist police officer dead, charismatic out-of-work actor Jean-Michel tries to convince Audrey, a hip street photographer, to flee the city with him.

0.0

The Satin Woman

July 1927 •English

Dorothy Reid -- who before her marriage to ill-fated screen idol Wallace Reid was better known as Dorothy Davenport -- was both producer and star of Satin Woman. After the death of her husband from drug abuse in 1923, Davenport dedicated herself to helping others avoid the pitfalls of modern life by turning out a series of cautionary film fables. In Satin Woman, she endeavored to warn society women not to neglect their families for the sake of fads, foibles, and handsome younger men.

6.1

The Humans

November 2021 •English

Erik Blake has gathered three generations of his Pennsylvania family to celebrate Thanksgiving at his daughter’s apartment in lower Manhattan. As darkness falls outside and eerie things start to go bump in the night, the group’s deepest fears are laid bare.

5.5

Just the Ticket

February 1998 •English

Gary Starke is one of the best ticket scalpers in New York City. His girlfriend, Linda, doesn't approve of his criminal lifestyle, though, and dumps him when she gets the opportunity to study cooking in Paris. Gary realizes that he has to give up scalping if he has any chance of winning her back. But before he does, he wants to cash out on one last big score. He gets his chance when the pope announces he'll be performing Easter Mass at Yankee Stadium.

5.9

Veronika Decides to Die

May 2009 •English

After a frantic suicide attempt, Veronika awakens inside a mysterious mental asylum. Under the supervision of an unorthodox psychiatrist who specializes in controversial treatment, Veronika learns that she has only weeks to live.

5.5

P.S.

October 2004 •English

Louise, an unfulfilled divorced woman with regrets, gets the chance to relive her past when she meets a young man who bears an uncanny resemblance, in name and appearance, to her high school sweetheart who died many years before.

7.5

My Dinner with Andre

October 1981 •English

Wally, a struggling playwright and actor, reluctantly agrees to catch up with his old friend Andre, a theater director who disappeared several years prior in order to travel the world. Meeting at a posh Manhattan restaurant, the two share life stories, anecdotes and philosophical musings over the course of an evening meal.

6.2

The House of Mirth

September 2000 •English

In early 20th century New York City, an impoverished socialite desperately seeks a suitable husband as she gradually finds herself betrayed by her friends and exiled from high society.

6.5

Marked Woman

April 1937 •English

In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.

7.0

Ragtime

November 1981 •English

A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.

7.3

Baby Face

July 1933 •English

A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness.

6.6

Little Murders

February 1971 •English

A young nihilistic New Yorker copes with pervasive urban violence, obscene phone calls, rusty water pipes, electrical blackouts, paranoia, and ethnic-racial conflict during a typical summer of the 1970s.

6.0

Good Sam

May 2019 •English

A news reporter looks into who has been anonymously leaving large cash gifts on random doorsteps in New York.

7.3

Cross Bronx

May 2004 •English

This Bronx-based coming-of-age drama follows four high school friends as they navigate the treacherous waters of independence, love and careers on their individual paths toward achieving their dreams.

6.1

Stonewall

September 2015 •English

Kicked out by his parents, a gay teenager leaves small-town Indiana for New York's Greenwich Village, where growing discrimination against the gay community leads to riots on June 28, 1969.

0.0

Awake and Sing!

June 1972 •English

The Bergers, a blue-collar Jewish family living in an overstuffed tenement and undone by the Depression, struggle through hard times and dream of a better future in this 1972 production of Clifford Odets' pungent play. Personalities and politics clash as Odets' mélange of characters try to survive on pennies a day. Walter Matthau plays cynical World War I amputee Moe Axelrod, and Leo Fuchs portrays the family's iron-willed leftist grandfather.

5.4

Between the Temples

August 2024 •English

A grief-stricken cantor in a crisis of faith finds his world turned upside down when his grade school music teacher re-enters his life as his new adult Bat Mitzvah student. The two forlorn souls develop a special connection.

6.3

Twilight

November 2008 •English

When Bella Swan moves to a small town in the Pacific Northwest, she falls in love with Edward Cullen, a mysterious classmate who reveals himself to be a 108-year-old vampire. Despite Edward's repeated cautions, Bella can't stay away from him, a fatal move that endangers her own life.