Storyline
The lives of two lovelorn spouses from separate marriages, a registered sex offender, and a disgraced ex-police officer intersect as they struggle to resist their vulnerabilities and temptations.
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Cast
Kate Winslet, Jennifer Connelly, Chance Kelly, Chance Kelly, Helen Carey, Jane Adams, Sarah Buxton, Ty Simpkins, Gregg Edelman, Noah Emmerich, Catherine Wolf, Patrick Wilson, Phyllis Somerville, Raymond J. Barry, Jackie Earle Haley, Sadie Goldstein, Mary B. McCann, Trini Alvarado, Marsha Dietlein, Chadwick Brown, Adam Mucci, Walker Ryan, Erica Berg, Hunter Reid
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Reviews
91
Entertainment Weekly
A jolting, artfully made drama set in and around a suburban playground somewhere between "American Beauty" and "In the Bedroom" on America's psychic highway.
90
Providing richness of detail and metaphor, elegantly blueprinted themes and impressive mastery of a constantly shifting tone, Little Children does just that. It is a deeply satisfying film.
90
The result is a movie that is challenging, accessible and hard to stop thinking about...But in too many recent movies intelligence is woefully undervalued, and it is this quality -- even more than its considerable beauty -- that distinguishes Little Children from its peers.
88
The rarest of movies - a literary multi-character drama. From the erudition of the voiceover narrative to the three dimensionality of the characters, Field's film is the closest it's possible to get to a book without reading one.
88
Rolling Stone
This unnervingly funny and quietly devastating film -- director Todd Field's first since his smash 2001 debut with "In the Bedroom" -- pulls you in like a magnetic-force field.
