After a standing ovation and several prizes at Sundance, this quiet little film about a very small man who gets so fed up with people’s reaction to his tiny size that he decides to live in total solitude, has made its way around the world as an example of the kind of American cinema you now hardly ever see. He meets a little black girl who asks him: “Are you a midget?” No, he says, I’m a dwarf. He also meets an eccentric lady who has lost a child and a hot dog vendor who is equally lonely but determined to make contact. Slowly but surely, the four odd souls begin to bond