Little Sweetheart

This little-known British film is excellent in every way. There is an interesting and memorable story, good acting, beautiful Florida beach scenery set to beautiful jazz guitar solos, attractive actresses, and more.

Little Sweetheart is a thriller with a lot of problems. While the basic idea for the plot is good; the execution is rather uneven and many of the plot details don't hold up to close scrutiny in some cases; and outright don't follow any sort of logic in others.

I saw this when it came out on TV, but didn't tape it then, and always wanted to see it again. I finally did only recently.

This film is shot primarily upon St. George's Island, a resort site along Northern Florida's Gulf Coast, that becomes the transposed location from France in the original novel, of which only a basic outline has been retained.

Let me add "especially if you are on the lam from the police" to my summary of "Little Sweetheart", the female version of "The Good Son" (1994). Thelma (Cassie Barasch) isn't quite as evil as Macaulay Culkin's "Henry" in "The Good Son", but she comes close.

"Little Sweetheart" is an extremely suspenseful and very odd movie, basically--- it's not handled that perfectly, that's some problem. As the third time I saw it, I noticed many things which didn't make sense to me, about the development of the plot, mainly.