Review of Little Accidents (2014) by Andrew S — 02 Jan 2017

This story set in a mining town in West Virginia centers around three characters and two interwoven tragedies. It features truly great performances by Elizabeth Banks, Boyd Holbrook and Jacob Lofland.

Sara Colangelo has directed her own script with intense human sensitivity. It's involves a mining accident, with one survivor (Boyd Holbrook), the mine boss's wife (Elizabeth Banks), and a high school age boy who lost his father in the accident and gets involved with something tragic and related, a reverberation of the mine accident.

The boy is played by Jacob Lofland. I have seen him before in another great movie and another excellent performance (Mud). He is a very very fine young actor.

This is a really good movie with quiet suspense, class difference elements that are well handled, and believable sensuality,.

I believe it also points to the need for more women in writing and directing positions, I mean if we care about the culture that we live in and acknowledge the power of motion pictures to inform and influence it, as I do. This is the kind of cinema that most appeals to me.