Little Boy is a 2015 World War II war-drama film directed by Alejandro Gómez Monteverde.

The screenplay is by Monteverde and Pepe Portillo, and the film was produced by Eduardo Verástegui and Leo Severino, and edited by Joan Sobel and Fernando Villena.

The film stars Jakob Salvati, Emily Watson, David Henrie, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Michael Rapaport, Ben Chaplin, Eduardo Verástegui, Ted Levine, Abraham Benrubi, and Tom Wilkinson.

An Indian adaptation of the film, titled Tubelight and starring Salman Khan in the lead role, also opened to negative reviews in 2017.

[3][4][5] In the seaside town of O'Hare, California, an 8-year-old boy who is small for his age, Pepper Flynt Busbee, has a very close relationship with James, his loving father, which begins from the very moment he is born when his father cradles him in his arms and notices how small he is.

[6] Not long after his father leaves for war, Pepper hears the Bible verse, "Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move" (Matthew 17:20), he becomes determined to get enough faith to bring his father home.

His brother London, and Sam – one of the townspeople that lost a son – go to Hashimoto's home and attack him one night, leading to his being hospitalized.

Eventually, Jakob Salvati won the role at seven years of age, even though he had only acted on television.

Actor David Henrie was seeking such a film as this one after emerging as a Disney star, and in the process of returning to the Catholic Church.

The website's critical consensus reads, "Well-meaning but manipulative on a horrifically misguided scale, Little Boy is the rare faith-based film that many viewers may find legitimately offensive.

[13] Alan Scherstuhl, writing for The Village Voice, describes Little Boy as a "cynical, poisonous, deeply stupid film.

"[14] Christy Lemire wrote in RogerEbert.com, "even by this genre's standards, the sentimental way the story twists and ends is as shameless as it is maudlin.

"[15] Michael Phillips, writing for the Chicago Tribune, criticized the use of the bombing of Japan, and wrote, "Little Boy answers a question most tear-jerkers wouldn't have the nerve to ask: Can the bombing of Hiroshima be manipulated narratively, if briefly, into a position of warming our hearts?

She summarized it as a "heart-wrenching and encouraging movie dealing with life and death, and with faith, hope and love.