Little Children ultimately seems to display the conformity to convention that so alarms its central characters.
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10/28/06
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 CriticLittle 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
Sure to raise heckles in the tabloid press, this is complex, thought-provoking cinema.
12/30/06
Top CriticImpressively directed, sharply written and beautifully shot drama with superb performances from the entire cast.
10/28/06
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.
11/04/06
Top CriticA sharply observed and brilliantly acted study of American suburban life.
01/20/07
It strikes such a strongly resonant chord that it's often difficult to watch, but we can't turn away.
10/19/06
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.
11/11/06
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10/08/06
I'm sorry, an interesting premise, a keen eye and a veneer of emotional seriousness are not enough.
09/29/06
Bereft of a protagonist, the movie breaks down under the weight of absurd voice-over narration and an exploitative ending that is as indefensibly wrongheaded as it is cheap.
04/24/09
A slow-paced bourgeois melodrama.
11/21/06
'Little Children' sometimes trivializes what deserves serious treatment.
09/26/06
It is only once the end credits have begun to roll that you step back, process what you have seen, and leave dissatisfied.
10/18/06
The unrestrained (and rather excellent) trailer for Todd Field's Little Children would have us believe that the Whore of Babylon (possibly Kate Winslet) is coming for us on NJ Transit, with Pandora's Box in hand.
10/31/06
Suburbia continues to serve as the dartboard of choice for filmmakers bent on demonstrating their urbane superiority to the dull denizens of tract housing.
09/26/06
Auteur Todd Field and co-writer Tom Perrotta have created a group of some of the most unsympathetic characters to ever blight movie screen.
10/06/06
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