Little Men . Newcity Chicago . 05-11-98

Little Men

DIRECTED BY: Rodney Gibbons

REVIEWED: 05-11-98

A choppy, grainy Canadian production of the Louisa May Alcott tale in which a mature Jo (Mariel Hemingway) and her husband run Plumfield School for Boys, where the kids get to call the pair by their first names and blow off steam in carefully supervised pillowfights. But when the Boston streetfriend of their newest, wide-eyed classmate shows up, punches and knives are thrown. It doesn't amount to much more than a vehicle for young Ben Cook who, as the mischeivous, defensive Dan, looks very much like "Clockwork Orange"'s Alex in a ragged bowler and walking stick while simultaneously exuding the alluring precocity that was so unsettling in Christina Ricci.

--Ellen Fox

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