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.
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11/04/06
Little Children (2006)
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Reviews Counted:152
Fresh:121
Rotten:31
Average Rating:7.4/10
Consensus: Little Children takes a penetrating look at suburbia and its flawed individuals with an unflinching yet humane eye.
Theatrical Release:03-11-2006
Synopsis: Actor-turned-director Todd Field follows up his Oscar-nominated drama, IN THE BEDROOM, with this ambitious adaptation of Tom Perrotta's celebrated novel. Set in the imploding minefields of modern... [More]
Starring: Kate Winslet, Patrick Wilson, Gregg Edelman, Sadie Goldstein
Director: Todd Field
Reviews for Little Children
Top CriticIt strikes such a strongly resonant chord that it's often difficult to watch, but we can't turn away.
10/19/06
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.
11/03/06
A sharply observed and brilliantly acted study of American suburban life.
01/20/07
Sure to raise heckles in the tabloid press, this is complex, thought-provoking cinema.
12/30/06
Top CriticIt'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.
11/11/06
Top CriticImpressively directed, sharply written and beautifully shot drama with superb performances from the entire cast.
10/28/06
Little Children ultimately seems to display the conformity to convention that so alarms its central characters.
10/28/06
Top CriticLittle Children refers not only to the kids that the parents worry about but also to the adults who often behave immaturely.
11/17/06
There's enough good work here to make it worth a look.
10/19/06
Wilson's overgrown adolescent, Winslet's bored, discontented wife and Haley's creepy, self-loathing sex offender are complex, deeply flawed characters -- they're the 'little children.'
10/02/06
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06/22/07
... it's as absorbing as a train wreck, and its brand of heavy drama is so rare in movies these days that everything about it seems amazingly fresh.
11/16/06
Relentlessly picks at scabs of domestic bliss that conceal sorrow, betrayal and futile fulfillment.
10/11/06
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.
03/01/07
Perhaps most satisfying when viewed as a particularly fraught, literate and beautifully acted soap opera; no doubt the movie's East Wyndham, Mass., is located on the same commuter train line that serves Peyton Place and Wisteria Lane.
01/05/07
Field has merely looked down upon people trying to make sense of their lives, and judged them unworthy.
01/04/07
The main story deals with Sarah and Brad, but the other characters are given existences of their own, which is rare in motion pictures, and Little Children is richer for it.
10/03/06
A risky and rewarding art film, but definitely for grown-ups.
06/24/08
As a husband obsessed with porn, Gregg Edelman enacts one of the more interesting instances of masturbation in the history of the cinema.
10/12/06
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