Little Manhattan is a 2005 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Mark Levin and written by Jennifer Flackett.

Rosemary's family's life is in contrast to Gabe's; his parents have declared an awkward truce while waiting for their divorce to be official.

Complicating matters, Rosemary is going to summer camp for six weeks and her parents will enroll her in a private school when she returns.

Gabe's world is turned upside down when he and Rosemary are assigned new sparring partners in martial arts school.

They happily go out for dinner and as the movie ends, Gabe, narrating, summarizes what Rosemary meant to him: "I'm never gonna get another first love.

[6] BBC's Stella Papamichael wrote that the film was "sweet but not syrupy and heart-warming without being manipulative, this kid flick stands tall among recent Hollywood love stories".

[7] Kevin Thomas, writing for the Los Angeles Times, called the film "a handsome charmer about the avalanche of first love... an endearing, affectionately humorous and even lyrical depiction of the dawning of adolescence amid the privileged".

Thomas felt the script was "problematic...[Gabe's] speech as soundtrack narrator of his own story is precociously improbable".

[citation needed] Variety's Brian Lowry was less positive about the film, "Resting almost entirely on the shoulders of its young leads, both they and the pic lack the sparkle to sustain what seeks to be a whimsical premise but, except for a few moments, proves ponderous instead."

The movie featured 18 other songs, half are covers by a variety of musicians, from the well-known The Beatles and Elvis Presley to little-known The Meadows and Loston Harris (the jazz pianist in the film).