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Still from The Little Fugitive (1953)
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Saturday June 7, 2008 (5pm)
Sunday June 22, 2008 (2pm)
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$10
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Little Fugitive captures the step-right-up rush of a trip to Coney Island in 1952. The film follows seven-year-old Joey during a weekend escape to the erstwhile wonderland after he "kills" his older brother (don't worry: in Shakespearean spirit, 'tis but a prank). Morris Engel's handheld camera follows Joey's seriocomic excursion with a documentarian's reverence for the candid image. Throughout, Coney Island embodies a kid's conception of Eden: a land overrun with sugary temptation, amusement, and the scary new notion of free will.
