Little Children
starring: Kate Winslet, Patrick Wilson, Jennifer Connelly, Gregg Edelman, Sadie Goldstein
directed by: Todd Field
directed by: Todd Field
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0794043106576
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: New Line Home Video
Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: New Line Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 01, 2007
Running Time: 137 minutes
Sales Rank: 4493
Studio: New Line Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: November 03, 2006
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Editorial Review:
Description:
Kate Winslet, Jennifer Connelly and Patrick Wilson star in the Academy Award nominated film Little Children, the latest work from Oscar-nominated writer/director Todd Field. Based on the novel by Tom Perrotta, Little Children centers on a handful of middle-class suburban parents whose lives unravel in the wake of an adulterous affair.
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Kate Winslet operates at a galaxy-class level in Little Children, Todd Field's gratifyingly grown-up look at unhappy suburbia. Winslet is magnificent, in an Oscar-nominated performance, as a stroller-pushing mom who becomes attracted to a passive househusband (Patrick Wilson). Their slow-burning infidelity (Field wisely allows time to pass in this unhurried film) is contrasted with a more sensational subplot, about a convicted pedophile (Jackie Earle Haley, also Oscar nominated) returning to the neighborhood to live with his mother (Phyllis Somerville). Field, who brought his civilized approach to In the Bedroom, uses a deliberately literary style here, including a device with a narrator who sounds as though he's sitting at our side as he reads from Tom Perotta's novel. (The narrator is a superb touch--his cultivated voice distances us from the sloppy passions of the characters.) The film's biggest miscalculation is a self-appointed neighborhood vigilante (Noah Emmerich) determined to make life miserable for the pedophile. But Wilson is appropriately nebulous, Jennifer Connelly solid as his wife, and Haley (child star of the Bad News Bears movies), as the creepy, childlike molester, found himself rediscovered after a long career layoff. There's decent acting here, but Winslet is in a zone of her own, with so much emotional honesty and subtlety of expression that she transforms a good movie into a must-see. --Robert Horton
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- thought-provokingI saw the film and loved it, and then read the book which was terrific and funny. Then, I watched ... Read More
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- Winslet is superb, the movie so-soKate Winslet enlivens this adaption of the novel by Tom Perrotta with a terrific performance. The ... Read More
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- thought provokingThis movie definitely made me think. The title "Little Children" is so appropriate as the name of the ... Read More
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- Children with full grown inhibitions" Little Children " is one of the those rare gems of filmmaking that is a remisniscent of early 70's ... Read More
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