A sharply observed and brilliantly acted study of American suburban life.
Little Children (2006)
Runtime: 2 hrs 17 mins
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Kate Winslet, Patrick Wilson, Gregg Edelman, Sadie Goldstein, Jennifer Connelly
DVD Info
Release:
Jan 5, 2007
DVD Features:
- Region 1
- Keep Case
- Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.35
Audio:
- Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - English
- Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo Surround - English
Reviews
Sure to raise heckles in the tabloid press, this is complex, thought-provoking cinema.
It's a beautifully insightful story co-written by Field and Tom Perrotta (based on his novel) that is sometimes unsettling but always engrossing, and ultimately heart-warming.
There are plenty of laughs and plenty of shocks, though, and plenty of shifts of narrative viewpoint within the ensemble to keep you on your toes.
Little Children is a movie that defies easy categorisation. It’s not quite a drama, not quite a love story, not quite a black comedy but rather a little of all three rolled together.
Little Children ultimately seems to display the conformity to convention that so alarms its central characters.
Impressively directed, sharply written and beautifully shot drama with superb performances from the entire cast.
It strikes such a strongly resonant chord that it's often difficult to watch, but we can't turn away.
The leads are self-delusional, secretive, dependent, nakedly desperate at times, and all fascinating.
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The success Fields has with this film comes through the uncomfortable intersection between comedy, melodrama and tragedy. Oh, and romance.
Little Children's stone-cold suburbia reaches for Kubrick, but is also half Spielberg.
Un drama inteligente, tenso y reflexivo sobre la insatisfacción, el deseo, la infidelidad y las perversiones de un puñado de habitantes suburbanos. Excelente dirección y elenco.
Field directs all this with a restraint that sometimes verges on the dry, but there's little doubt the film builds to a shattering climax.
O filme de Todd Field ilustra nosso eterno despreparo para lidar com as grandes questões da vida ou mesmo com nossos menores impulsos.
It had me at hello... and kept me for a long time, and then lost me in its final moments.
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