"Little Person" Movie Roundup

Mostly when Tam and I watch a group of movies centering around a particular topic it's on purpose. Hitchcock fest during Evan's first week of life, Babylon 5 and Firefly obsessive serials, and throw in attempts to see all of Terry Gilliam and Coen Brother's flicks...she's sleeping, so the list is missing something.

Anyway. A few weeks ago I made the mistake of renting "Tiptoes". It sounds like it might be good, ('Funny, Even' said the back cover. Uhh..Nope) a number of notable actors and intriguing storyline: Unknown little-person genes. Hilairity does not ensue, but the acting gets worse, character building goes from nowhere to wtf, and WAY too uncandid look at a slice of too many varieties of little folk seemingly filmed by the crew from "After School Specials". It's not even steroetype soup. And the ending sucked sour grapes. 1/2 a coughed out grape seed.

This weekend Tam rented "The Station Agent", which was also a Independant/Sundance gamble, but managed to be appropriately packaged up in subtltey, succinct, and consistent decent acting in a "it is what it is" plot. Granted, we missed an 1/8 of the flick 2/3 way through due to a previous renters crappy player scratching spirographs all over the DVD, but in the end, we had found it interesting enough to check out the deleted scenes, which added an appropriate "That makes sense, interesting, but not needed." to the flick, and does not answer: When we're blimps invented? This one deserves a solid 3 out of 5 ice cream trucks.

How many qualifies a roundup? I'll shoot for 3.

Snow White. Grotesque and unsuitable for children at so many levels. I am convinced that all things goth can be traced back to this movie alone. I give it Snow White's age divided by Pi minus 1 freakish (PHB?) witch hat.

Update: I learned "midget" was inappropriate, but they used Dwarf so many friggin times in the last half of Tiptoes that I thought that was the right word. Arg. The Station Agent didn't try to qualify. Thanks, Tam, for covering the Audience Comprehension portion of my world.