little man

A marvelously compressed and immaculately constructed work.

Above all, it's a testament to the will to live and how that spirit can be found in even the smallest of packages.

Conn is exasperating and heroic in equal measure, an altogether riveting portrait of motherly devotion at its most primal.

Deeply personal film that often feels more like an artfully produced home video than a documentary.

But with her penchant for frilly romance and sentimentality, the focus is often, cloyingly, on Conn as the heroine of the story, the mother who (sob!) wouldn't give up.

Weighing in at almost exactly one pound and unable to breathe or eat on his own, Nicholas James Baba-Conn seemed doomed to a very short life; his chance for survival was calculated at close to zero.

Your baby is near death. Instead of dropping everything to save his life, you make sure the video camera keeps rolling.