The Little Things (2021) on Netflix
Kern County Deputy Sheriff Joe "Deke" Deacon is sent to Los Angeles on an evidence assignment and joins the search for a serial killer. The killings echo an unsolved case of his.
- Netflix3.2/5
- IMDb6.3/10146,208 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes44%
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Plot summary
Joe "Deke" Deacon, a Kern County deputy sheriff and a former Los Angeles detective, is sent to the city to collect evidence in a recent murder. Jimmy Baxter, newly assigned to lead the case, brings him to the scene of another killing, and Deacon notices the method matches an earlier case that went unsolved. He takes vacation leave to help. A jogger, Ronda Rathbun, is reported missing, and another body is found beneath a bridge. Deacon begins looking into Albert Sparma, who works at a repair shop near the killings.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Little Things (2021)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Brandon Lee wanted a part in The Little Things after reading John Lee Hancock's 1993 script, but died that year. He still appears on-screen in the finished film: an old episode of Ohara featuring Lee plays on a television in suspect Albert Sparma's apartment.
- Denzel Washington turned down the lead role in David Fincher's 1995 thriller Se7en years before finally playing a serial-killer investigator in The Little Things, according to critic Nick Schager of The Daily Beast.
