Little Joe (2019)

NR11/01/2019Drama, Science Fiction1h 46m
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Happiness is a business

Overview

Alice, a single mother who is more dedicated to her work as a genetic engineer than to her teenage son Joe, develops a new variety of flower that is supposed to have the ability to make its owner happy thanks to its special chemical properties.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Emily Beecham

    Alice

  2. Cast 1

    Ben Whishaw

    Chris

  3. Cast 1

    Kerry Fox

    Bella

  4. Cast 1

    Kit Connor

    Joe

  5. Cast 1

    David Wilmot

    Karl

  6. Cast 1

    Phénix Brossard

    Ric

  7. Cast 1

    Sebastian Hülk

    Ivan

  8. Cast 1

    Lindsay Duncan

    Psychotherapist

  9. Cast 1

    Jessie Mae Alonzo

    Selma

A fascinating concept - a firm determined to succeed at a flower fair work to create the ideal blossom. When two of their team - Emily Beecham and an almost robotic Ben Whishaw develop a flower that exudes a pollen that creates happiness; they are certain they are onto a winner. She even smuggles one home as a gift for her young son, and they christen it "Little Joe". À la "Jurassic Park" the plants are sterile so they cannot reproduce - well, that's the theory anyway but as Jeff Goldblum would have said "nature finds a way". Problem here is that the way chosen by the plants to perpetuate thei...

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Original LanguageEnglish 

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