When music is played in this modest film, the performers are on stage or in a rehearsal space.

It is literally at the last minute that this mild, modest film becomes anything more than slight.

Many modest films not only wither at the box office, but fail to appeal to overseas audiences.

Considered a modest but interesting film, China Doll received favorable critical reviews.

Even the cost of a modest independent film would explode at a big studio, he said.

The emerging video technology, she said, had created a new way to make modest, intimate films quickly and cheaply.

He has also been giving interviews, appearing on live Internet chats, doing whatever he can to buy a break for his modest film.

Despite the universal element of family, though, this modest film is really about Ms. Huffman's performance.

When the boy wizard made his screen debut in 2001, 'I thought it would be a modest film,' he recalls.

This modest neo-realist film from Kazhakstan is both tough and tender.