In a small American coal town living in the shadow of a recent mining accident, the disappearance of a teenage boy draws three people together—a surviving miner, the lonely wife of a mine executive, and a local boy—in a web of secrets.
Nothing feels forced in this movie, which is testament to Colangelo's skill as well as the cast's. You believe the coal dust on these people; you grieve for their secrets.
– Tom Long,
Detroit News,
16 Jan 2015
fresh:
Little Accidents paints a vivid portrait of a community facing an imminent existential crisis.
– Tirdad Derakhshani,
Philadelphia Inquirer,
16 Jan 2015
rotten:
To her credit, the writer-director tries for complexity. Now if she can just get the storytelling to match the quality of the filmmaking, I suspect there will be fewer little accidents.
– Betsy Sharkey,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Jan 2015
rotten:
Owen tries with lurching uncertainty to ease back into normal, even as the writer and director Sara Colangelo clutters his path with enough obstacles to challenge the most heroically determined traveler.
– Manohla Dargis,
New York Times,
15 Jan 2015
fresh:
There's a quiet desperation to all the lives depicted in writer-director Sara Colangelo's assured indie about a West Virginia mining accident that upends everyone in town.