#Little things serial#
#Little things series#

The '90s were something of a renaissance era for serial-killer movies, and the director, John Lee Hancock, wrote this script back in 1993, two years after The Silence of the Lambs and two years before David Fincher's notorious shocker Se7en. But even if there wasn't a pandemic and The Little Things had been widely released in theaters as planned, it might still have played like a relic from an earlier moviemaking decade. That's partly because of COVID-19, which caused theaters to close 10 months ago and led the studios to postpone some of their biggest titles. It's been awhile since I've seen a new studio picture like The Little Things - a big, meaty, slickly made crime drama featuring a trio of Academy Award winners.

#Little things serial#

We then see an entire set of red hair clips, alluding to Deke having purchased them to send one to Baxter to ease his conscience and prevent the younger man from turning out like him: divorced, an embarrassment at his old job, and unable to be free of his guilt.Denzel Washington and Rami Malek are an unlikely pair on the hunt for a serial killer in The Little Things.

Just as he goes to shut his trunk, Deke picks up a metal box hidden beneath Sparma's floorboards and seemingly contained items taken from his victim. But when the sheriff opens it, it's empty. He's burning any evidence of the suspected killer, covering up the young detective's crime. What Baxter doesn't see, however, is Deke cleaning Sparma's belongings from his trunk. It's a comfort for Baxter, who cannot come to terms with potentially killing an innocent man. That's when his wife brings him a piece of mail and when he opens it, a red hair clip falls out, alluding to a piece of evidence missing from one of the killer's victims. Baxter now sits at home in front of his pool, watching his two daughters play in the pool, mentally depleted and emotionally distraught by what he's done. Shortly after, viewers see a new detective has been assigned to the serial killing case, and they seemingly believe the scene Deke has set for them, shifting their case to finding a fleeing Sparma. Ignoring other officers' warnings, Baxter increasingly leans on the instincts and experience of Deke, whose dark past still haunts him and, as the young detective soon finds out, will create a few new ghosts. Directed and written by John Lee Hancock, Jr., whose past work includes Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, The Blind Side, Snow White and the Huntsman, and most recently true-crime gem The Highway Men, the film has been in development since 1993 - and it shows in just about every aesthetic and narrative element of the movie. That man is the narcissistic and egotistical self-proclaimed crime buff Albert Sparma (Leto), who dangerously engages the veteran and rising hotshot in a cat-and-mouse game.

#Little things series#

Set in Los Angeles during 1990, the two diligently and eventually obsessively attempt to catch the man they believe to be the killer in a series of violent murders. Jim Baxter (Malek) as they team up to catch a serial killer. Led by Oscar winners Rami Malek, Jared Leto, and the highly discerning Denzel Washington, the film follows Deputy Sheriff Joe 'Deke' Deacon (Washington) and Sgt.