| Little Boy | |
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| Directed by | Alejandro Monteverde |
| Written by | Alejandro Monteverde Pepe Portillo |
| Produced by | Leo Severino Eduardo Verástegui Alejandro Monteverde |
| Starring | Jakob Salvati Emily Watson Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa Michael Rapaport David Henrie Eduardo Verástegui Ben Chaplin Tom Wilkinson |
| Cinematography | Andrew Cadelago |
| Edited by | Fernando Villena Meg Ramsay Joan Sobel |
| Music by | Stephan Altman Mark Foster |
Production companies | Metanoia Films Santa Fé Films |
| Distributed by | Open Road Films (United States) Videocine (Mexico)[1] |
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Running time | 107 minutes |
| Countries | United States Mexico |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $20 million[2] |
| Box office | $17.7 million[2] |
Little Boy is a 2015 World War II war-drama film directed by Alejandro Gómez Monteverde. The screenplay is by Monteverde and Pepe Portillo, and the film was produced by Eduardo Verástegui and Leo Severino, and edited by Joan Sobel and Fernando Villena. The film stars Jakob Salvati, Emily Watson, David Henrie, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Michael Rapaport, Ben Chaplin, Eduardo Verástegui, Ted Levine, Abraham Benrubi, and Tom Wilkinson. The title is a reference to Little Boy, the code name for the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, as well as a reference to the main character Pepper's height. The film was co-produced by Metanoia Films and Santa Fé Films and was released on April 24, 2015, by Open Road Films. It was released on DVD and Blu-ray on August 18, 2015, by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. The film received negative reviews from mainstream critics and earned $17 million on a $20 million budget. An Indian adaptation of the film, titled Tubelight and starring Salman Khan in the lead role, also opened to negative reviews in 2017.[3][4][5]
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- ^ "Salman Khan's Tubelight is remake of Jakob Salvati's Little Boy, director Kabir Khan confirms". Firstpost. 8 May 2017.
- ^ "Tubelight Based on Hollywood Film Little Boy; Salman Khan Plays a 'Gifted' Character". News18. 5 May 2017.