The police make a thorough sweep of the scene, but it's Deke who finds the evidence that leads them to a repairman, Albert Sparma, who becomes their prime suspect. They're trying to solve the murders of several young women, the latest of whom has been found in a rundown flophouse - one of many reminders here of an older, less gentrified Los Angeles.
In typical buddy-cop fashion, they get off on the wrong foot but soon settle into a comfortable groove, with Deke playing the grizzled mentor to Baxter's ambitious up-and-comer. His unlikely partner is a young hotshot named Jim Baxter, played by Rami Malek. But on a work-related trip down to L.A., he meets up with his old friends on the force and gets pulled into a major case. He appears to have made few changes to his script, which is still set in the '90s, probably because so much of the story depends on pay phones.ĭenzel Washington plays Joe Deacon, also known as Deke, a former Los Angeles detective who now works as a sheriff's deputy in Bakersfield. It was revived only a few years ago, now with Hancock in the director's chair.
THE LITTLE THINGS MOVIE
But for various reasons, even though Steven Spielberg and Clint Eastwood both considered directing it, the movie never got off the ground. It's interesting to think how The Little Things might have fit into the genre if it had been made back then. 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.
THE LITTLE THINGS SERIAL
Denzel Washington and Rami Malek are an unlikely pair on the hunt for a serial killer in The Little Things.
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