When The Little Hours begins, you might be wondering what you’ve gotten yourself into. Aubrey Plaza‘s Sister Fernanda gently leads a donkey through quaint pastures, a perfect period score ...

Writer-director Jeff Baena had a nutty idea, the kind most people talk themselves out of. How about a comedy about three nuns living in a convent in 1347? That sounds safe, doesn't it? Everybody's ...

The Little Hours Lumia Theater, Long Branch, N.J.; 65 seats; $40 top Production: A New Jersey Repertory Company presentation of a musical in two acts with book, music and lyrics by David Bucknam ...

As such, The Little Hours doesn’t ever do anything more with its one-note premise, nor does it ever show much of a desire to, making it feel like an overlong comedy sketch by the time it’s over.

Your enjoyment of “The Little Hours,” opening Friday at the Music Box, will depend wholly on your response to a sex comedy that looks one way (14th century Italian folktale, affordably but ...

“The Little Hours” is also packed with comedic firepower: Alison Brie, Aubrey Plaza, Kate Micucci, John C. Reilly, Molly Shannon, Fred Armisen, Nick Offerman — and the list goes on.

With “The Little Hours,” Baena takes his inspiration from no less rarefied a text than “The Decameron,” Italian writer Giovanni Bocaccio’s sprawling set of 14thcentury novellas.

Jeff Baena’s comedy “The Little Hours,” is inspired by stories from 14th-century Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio’s “The Decameron,” which was condemned itself many times throughout ...

With “The Little Hours,” Baena takes his inspiration from no less rarefied a text than “The Decameron,” Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio’s sprawling set of 14th­century novellas.

THE LITTLE HOURS opens Friday, July 7 at the Tivoli Theater. RATING: 3 1/2 out of 5 stars. The Little Hours movie poster. Related Items Alison Brie Aubrey Plaza bawdy Comedy Jeff Baena Nick Offerman ...