Little Crumb
1999 · 119 MIN · IMDB 6.5 · 2,757 VOTES · DIR. Maria Peters
Overview
The film is based on the popular Dutch childrens book by Chris van Abkoude. In a Dutch port in 1921 lives a 10-year-old orphan boy known to everyone simply as Little Crumb. His poverty-stricken mother Lize van Dien filled with shame was forced to turn him over to Mrs. Koster soon after he was born. Foster mother Mrs. Koster, who has cared for him since he was a baby, is very poor too, unable to support him by herself and proves to be a cruel taskmaster who insists Crumb bring her money before shell feed him. Somehow he must earn his keep out on the streets and can only go home after he has earned enough money. Crumb becomes an urchin stealing from the streets barrows and the shops to stay alive, sleeping in churches or huddled in doorways. Sometimes he has to run off from the police and he has earned the enmity of the most grownups around him.
Dialogue Timeline — 923 lines
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00:02:47 Heavy, huh?
00:07:25 This child is under arrest.
00:10:38 Seven pennies, because I broke seven windows.
00:14:49 That fat neck with those two chins...
00:18:47 My share is for Mrs. Koster, and from your share we will buy candy.
00:23:01 Forgive me.
00:28:17 That doesn't mean you have to beat him.
00:32:01 - Yes there is. You're hiding something. - I'm not.
00:35:08 I don't want to meet her. She left me when I was a baby.
00:41:14 Hurry up, there's a queue behind you.
00:44:58 I don't want to see you here again. Understand?
00:49:27 Are you coming to the dining room? We are about to start a Christmas dinner.
00:53:28 Hey Nail, thanks.
00:56:46 Hey, there's no bird in there.
01:01:04 Moor, there. Go.
01:06:05 Harry, Harry van Dien? With Mrs. Koster?
01:11:26 The name is Ledaire and not Red-hair.
01:15:12 Harry, you do know that the dog is not allowed inside.
01:20:44 From my dad.
01:26:40 I have to take you to the police station.
01:33:17 Kruimeltje. How nice to see you here.
01:40:27 She didn't want me, now I don't want her.
01:45:58 Say Wilkes, tell me why.
01:50:56 The angry baker rushed towards him...