Includes a conversation with writer/director Ira Sachs and actors Theo Taplitz and Greg Kinnear

This is the newest film from writer/director Ira Sachs (The Delta, Married Life, Love Is Strange). Working again with co-writer Mauricio Zacharias, Sachs’ Little Men examines the friendship between a pair of teenaged boys, Jake (Theo Taplitz) and Tony (Michael Barbieri). Jake is sensitive and shy, and the confident Tony recognizes how easily Jake’s feelings can be bruised, especially by callous adults. The guys seek each other out for just for the respite of hang time, but the social and economic gap between their families—and the everyday pressure of life in New York—threaten to overwhelm and undermine their relationship. Sachs has assembled a cast that also features Greg Kinnear, Alfred Molina, Jennifer Ehle and Talia Balsam as the adults whose immature behavior functions as both tragic and comic contrasts to the open and clear-eyed take on the world that Jake and Tony share. Sachs and Talpirz will discuss Little Men onstage after the movie plays.

2016, 85 min, color, DCP | Written by Mauricio Zacharias & Ira Sachs; directed by Ira Sachs; with Greg Kinnear, Jennifer Ehle, Paulina Garcia, Alfred Molina, Talia Balsam, introducing Michael Barbieri and Theo Taplitz

Ticketing Information

UPDATE (7/19/16): This screening is now open to the general public.

Film Independent, LACMA Film Club, and the New York Times Film Club members can reserve tickets starting at 12 pm on Thursday, June 16. | Free; limit two tickets per membership. | Proof of member status is required to reserve tickets during advance reservation period.

PLEASE NOTE: Pre-reserved tickets for this event can be picked up at LACMA’s Ticket Office, located in the Hammer Building, on the day of the event—as early as 11 am. Tickets are for general, unreserved Bing Theater seating. Ticketed guests must be in their Bing Theater seat 15 minutes prior to the advertised start time or seat(s) may be released. Reservations do not guarantee entry, even with a ticket in hand. Entry is first come, first served, so please arrive early. Program and guest participation subject to change or cancellation without prior notice. Tickets are nontransferable and can only be picked up by the individual who purchased or reserved them.