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?
00:07:21 - Don't run away from me again. - He's only a child.
00:10:31 Where is it? I'm waiting.
00:14:17 Yes, and that woman.
00:18:29 Terrible fire in jailhouse. 300 thieves and murderers escape.
00:22:43 - Lize van Dien? - Yes. That's her name.
00:27:26 What is it you want now?
00:31:07 Hurry up. I want to go home.
00:34:37 He's in America. Where did you get this?
00:40:42 Is there a first class too?
00:44:14 There is a baby born on earth
00:48:42 - Children don't speak here. - I will just run away again.
00:52:21 Hey...
00:55:38 - Dogs have no notion. - It's the same as murder.
00:59:54 And who were those people?
01:04:27 Well, it looks neat, doesn't it?
01:10:21 Alright, attention. We continue.
01:13:44 - Hands off. - Who says so?
01:17:59 I fed Moor.
01:23:56 You are the only one here who is sensible.
01:28:44 Not even Wilkes.
01:38:25 Lize van Dien.
01:42:17 Only that she was very young.
01:47:37 Chris Wilkes.