A tiny North Atlantic fishing village becomes the last place anyone would expect an international smuggling route to run through, which is exactly why it works so well in Little Lorraine.
What is Little Lorraine about?
Set in a coastal town with barely sixty residents, the film follows how that isolation becomes cover for a cocaine operation moving product through an unlikely channel: a network of funeral homes, with coffins doing the carrying while multiple governments look elsewhere. Director Andy Hines builds the 2026 Canadian drama around the gap between the town's quiet, ordinary surface and the criminal enterprise running underneath it, letting the mismatch between setting and stakes carry much of the tension. At 115 minutes, the story has room to sit with its small-town texture before the operation's scale becomes clear.
About the cast
The cast is led by Stephen Amell and Sean Astin, with Rhys Darby, Matt Walsh, Stephen McHattie, Sugar Lyn Beard, Kaelen Ohm, and musician J Balvin also appearing, giving the film a mix of dramatic and comedic screen presence across its ensemble.
Context & significance
Little Lorraine sits in a familiar but reliable crime-drama tradition: the ordinary place that turns out to be hiding something far bigger than its size suggests. Canadian productions have leaned into this kind of regional, close-quarters crime story in recent years, trading big-city backdrops for small towns where everyone knows everyone, which raises the stakes the moment an outsider's business intrudes on that intimacy. It also plays on a familiar irony of small-town crime stories: the fewer people there are to notice something wrong, the longer an operation like this can keep running in plain sight before anyone connects the pieces.
Watching Little Lorraine on Ktime
Little Lorraine is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles alongside its original English audio. The film page can be browsed by anyone, but watching the film itself requires signing in with a free K-Time account.