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Review: 'Little' is a cheery but clumsy body-swap comedy

The title of "Little," an alternately clumsy and inspired comedy of supernatural comeuppance, tells you what you're in for: It's "Big" in reverse, more or less (and often less). This time the body-morphing shenanigans are visited upon Jordan Sanders (Regina Hall), a brash, bullying tech CEO who wakes up one morning to find herself trapped in the body of her awkward 13-year-old self (Marsai Martin). The laws of aging and physiology are briefly suspended so that Jordan can learn a lesson she should have absorbed long

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