Tonight at 9 p.m., the Little will screen The Park Bench (Ann LeSchander, U.S. 2014, 83 min.) as part of The Best of the Fests series.

An unconventional romantic comedy, The Park Bench mixes live action with gorgeous animation to create a whimsical tale of life and love — and literature. Emily, a neurotic graduate student studying to be a librarian, is assigned to tutor Mateo, a puckish Latino undergrad, in American Lit. They meet three times a week on a park bench. At first they don't get along, but when their talk turns from the classics to confessions, they find themselves drawn to each other. Naturally she has a pharmacist fiancée, and he has a host of female admirers, but neither life nor good stories ever run smoothly.

[source: Little Theatre website, 2015-May-28]