This short won the Academy Award for Live Action Short. There will be spoilers ahead:
This is a very funny short and the mute boy steals the short. The basic premise is that two of the most inept criminals lucky enough to avoid jail (and clearly not the shiniest pebbles in the pond) take up with a small, mute boy whose "family" was working with Tweedledum and Tweedledummy when they were arrested for picking pockets and getting caught.
The boy, who is mute (possibly by choice) is a far more accomplished criminal than anyone else in the short (the boy is essentially a child prodigy, hence the title) and the best part of the short is when the kid does his stuff toward the latter part of the short.
The end scene is funny if not predictable, with one of the "geniuses" doing something brain-dead which ties back into an earlier aspect of their "career" and fun is had by all (except for the worst excuses for functioning human beings, of course).
This short is available on a DVD compilation of Academy Award nominated shorts from the year it won the award. The disc and this short are both excellent and well worth getting. Most highly recommended.
This is a very funny short and the mute boy steals the short. The basic premise is that two of the most inept criminals lucky enough to avoid jail (and clearly not the shiniest pebbles in the pond) take up with a small, mute boy whose "family" was working with Tweedledum and Tweedledummy when they were arrested for picking pockets and getting caught.
The boy, who is mute (possibly by choice) is a far more accomplished criminal than anyone else in the short (the boy is essentially a child prodigy, hence the title) and the best part of the short is when the kid does his stuff toward the latter part of the short.
The end scene is funny if not predictable, with one of the "geniuses" doing something brain-dead which ties back into an earlier aspect of their "career" and fun is had by all (except for the worst excuses for functioning human beings, of course).
This short is available on a DVD compilation of Academy Award nominated shorts from the year it won the award. The disc and this short are both excellent and well worth getting. Most highly recommended.