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Least Among Saints

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Least Among Saints
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release Date: 2012-10-12 Limited
  • Running Time: 105 min.
  • Director: Martin Papazian
  • Cast: Martin Papazian, Tristan Lake Leabu, Laura San Giacomo, Azura Skye, Audrey Marie Anderson, A.J. Cook, Ronnie Gene Blevins, Charles S. Dutton, Taylor Kinney, Lombardo Boyar
  • Producer: Robert A. Papazian
  • Writer: Martin Papazian
  • Distributor: Vitagraph Films
  • Official Site: Least Among Saints Official Site

There's no amount of emotional distress that macho brooding can't fix in Least Among Saints, a monotonous drama centered on a PTSD-afflicted Gulf War II soldier's search for canned redemption. The emotional stakes of writer/director/star Martin Papazian's feature directorial debut are almost exclusively defined by clichés. Papazian plays Anthony, a testosterone-addled soldier who just can't get his act together once back home. He's drunk a lot of the time, suffers from nightmares, and isn't allowed anywhere within 500 feet of his ex-wife. So, being an alpha male with an Atlas complex, Anthony's ego-stroking challenge is to rescue Wade (Tristan Lake Leabu), the grade-school-aged son of his irresponsible neighbor. There's nothing but skin-deep warmth to Least Among Saints, a film in which any authority figure who can't magically sober up and play surrogate daddy for a spell is treated as either a meddler or a well-meaning, do-nothing skeptic. Almost everyone in Anthony's world is helpless except the new-and-always-improving him, and nobody but Wade can save him from his worst impulses. After myriad deferred glances and a lot of aw-shucks protesting, Anthony inevitably gets his way. If only that were a good thing.

Simon Abrams
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