God's Little Acre is a slipshod, scatterbrained production that can never quite decide what kind of movie it wants to be. It changes focus, direction, and characters so many times that it could give you whiplash. It starts off as an amusing tale of a Georgia farmer who believes that his grandfather buried a trove of gold somewhere on his property. So he spends years digging holes in his farm. He even kidnaps a local albino because he believes that they can use a divining rod to locate buried treasure. But then it becomes a clumsy romance when one of the family falls in love with the albino. Then, the film changes directions again to become a confusing pro-labor picture where a member of the family sacrifices his life to reactivate a cotton mill that a local town depends on. God's Little Acre is a Frankenstein-esque combination of unrelated plots and stories. If it had just focused on one of them (i.e. the digging for gold, the romance, the pro-labor demonstration), then it might have been a good film. But, it didn't, so it isn't.
4/10
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