The Little Things Isn't As Bad As People Think
From John Lee Hancock, director of the Academy Award-winning film, The Blind Side, comes a grizzly crime thriller from Warner Bros. Hancock has experience with directing crime dramas, which includes The Highwaymen and the action film, Snow White and the Huntsman. None of them compare to his latest crime drama, The Little Things.
The Little Things stars 3 Academy Award winners in Denzel Washington, Rami Malek, and Jared Leto, who make up the core members of the film’s cast. Washington and Malek play the detectives who at first appear to be polar opposites, but who soon become more alike than either would have fathomed. Leto joins them as the creepy, obvious choice for a suspect.
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The Little Things begins with a Nocturnal Animals-type scene, where a young woman is traveling along an isolated road in the middle of the night. A strange and distinctly blue car toys with her on the road, rattling her. She searches for help and only manages to find it in the driver of a passing truck, which allows her to escape the anonymous figure who terrorized her. Viewers then meet Joe “Deke” Deacon (Washington), who is sent to Los Angeles to retrieve a pair of boots to tie a suspect to an investigation in Kern County. In Los Angeles, Deke meets Jim Baxter (Malek), a detective who is a few steps shy of being worshiped by his fellow detectives.
Upon meeting Jim, Malek emits the personality of an entitled, confident (and slightly cocky) detective, which contrasts Washington’s isolated, burdened character. These two are immediately pitched as utter opposites who must choose to get along out of benefit for the greater good. As they grow
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