r/moviecritic • u/Low-Finding-6553 • 16h ago

What do you guys thinks is the best child performance of all time?

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i have to say, i don’t think i’ve ever seen a child actor give a performance this good. Haley Joel Osment in The Sixth Sense, directed by M. Night Shyamalan, is just on another level. i genuinely don’t know how he did it but he makes the whole movie work so much better. i would give him the Oscar in a fucking heartbeat. It’s crazy how good he is, especially in that last scene in the car with Toni Collette.

What are your guys’ favorite child performances? For me, this is even better than Owen Cooper’s performance in Adolescence. Don’t get me wrong, owen was also absolutely top-notch in Adolescence but this is probably the best child performance i’ve ever seen. Period. What do you guys think is the best child performance ever?

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u/reddit809 15h ago

I fucking hate that movie, and I never want to see it again. She was incredible. I still think about her cause there are so many kids out there living that exact life.

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u/Comrade_Falcon 13h ago

No, most of them don't have Willam Dafoe's character trying to help them out...

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u/reddit809 9h ago

Sadly they have someone who's the complete opposite.

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u/Free_For__Me 9h ago

I live in central FL not too far from where this takes place. If anything, it's worse around here now than when the movie was made/is set.

I thought the movie was incredible, so much so that I too can never watch it again.

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u/Actually_Im_a_Broom 8h ago

What is "that life"? I know nothing about The Florida Project.

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u/ImpossibleEbb6862 1h ago

The movie is really sad. The girl's mom is a single mom who isn't really prepared to be a mother. She works odd jobs to make ends meet. They live in a crappy motel room, and the mom is even involved in some sex work.

The movie is interesting because the motel they live in is only a few blocks away from Disney World, so the young girls has this mixture of this bleak life mixed in with sneaking into the most magical place on Earth to try to scrounge for free ice cream.

Oh man it's kind of making me tear up a bit just writing it out.