Little Pink House

Name: Little Pink House
Genre: Drama
Released: April 20, 2018
Duration: 98 min
Rating: 55
Cast: Aaron Douglas, April Telek, Callum Keith Rennie, Catherine Keener, Colin Cunningham

2018

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| Release Date: April 20, 2018 | Not Rated

Starring: Aaron Douglas, April Telek, Callum Keith Rennie, Catherine Keener, Colin Cunningham, Gary Chalk, Giacomo Baessato, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Miranda Frigon, Rob LaBelle, Rukiya Bernard, Shauna Johannesen

Summary: A small-town nurse named Susette Kelo (Catherine Keener) emerges as the reluctant leader of her working-class neighbors in their struggle to save their homes from political and corporate interests bent on seizing the land and handing it over to Pfizer Corporation. Susette's battle goes all the way to the US Supreme Court and theA small-town nurse named Susette Kelo (Catherine Keener) emerges as the reluctant leader of her working-class neighbors in their struggle to save their homes from political and corporate interests bent on seizing the land and handing it over to Pfizer Corporation. Susette's battle goes all the way to the US Supreme Court and the controversial 5-4 decision in Kelo vs. City of New London gave government officials the power to bulldoze a neighborhood for the benefit of a multibillion-dollar corporation. The decision outraged Americans across the political spectrum, and that passion fueled reforms that helped curb eminent domain abuse.… Expand

Director: Courtney Balaker

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 98 min

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Rex Reed

Apr 21, 2018

It’s a good story, but too slow-moving for its own good. The cast works diligently, and Keener is scrappy but calm throughout, with a convincing naturalism as a woman with tremendous strength and a powerful belief in civil rights—at a time when most women were reluctant to speak out against political corruption. Read full review

Mick LaSalle

Apr 18, 2018

Much of the success of Little Pink House comes from the casting and the performance of Catherine Keener, an actress that has, simultaneously, an aura of glumness and an atmosphere of fun about her. Read full review

Guy Lodge

Apr 19, 2018

If the story’s political and personal nuances have been a bit flattened in Balaker’s script, keeping proceedings in a movie-of-the-week register, this Little Pink House nonetheless retains what property developers would call good bones. Read full review

Wes Greene

Apr 16, 2018

Courtney Moorehead Balaker's film is mostly a sobering dramatization of a true and controversial story in recent Connecticut history. Read full review

Tatiana Craine

Apr 18, 2018

Like Erin Brockovich for eminent domain, Little Pink House does well to explain the thorny legal issue at its center without getting bogged down in minutiae. Although Susette’s story unfolds in small-town Connecticut, Balaker hammers the point home: This could happen anywhere. Read full review

Michael O'Sullivan

Jun 1, 2018

Litte Pink House feels like it’s only ever checking off the requisite moments of civic outrage, while failing to connect with viewers on a level that’s deeper than the average made-for-TV issue-of-the-week movie. Read full review

Jeannette Catsoulis

Apr 19, 2018

Palely photographed and anchored by a quiet, rather weary performance from Ms. Keener, Little Pink House is a peculiarly enervated affair. The structure is choppy, and there are odd moments of tonal dissonance. Read full review

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Beecee

May 7, 2018

Catherine Keener does a good and naturalistic job as the sympathetic divorcee Suzanne in New London Connecticut who fights City Hall to keep her house from being turned over to a corporation for urban renewal. The script moves forward at a reasonable pace, and Suzanne's life is lightened byCatherine Keener does a good and naturalistic job as the sympathetic divorcee Suzanne in New London Connecticut who fights City Hall to keep her house from being turned over to a corporation for urban renewal. The script moves forward at a reasonable pace, and Suzanne's life is lightened by a local romance. The main problem is that there is a lack of economic context. The other side is almost totally demonized, and Jeanne Tripplethorn comes off like Cruella de Vil.… Expand

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