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Little Children Director: Todd Field Cast: Kate Winslet, Jennifer Connelly, Patrick Wilson, Jackie Earle Haley

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  • DVD Release Date: 05/01/2007
  • Original Release: 2006
  • Rating: Rated R
  • Sales Rank: 1,663

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Disc #1 -- Little Children
1. Main Titles/Sarah [6:10]
2. The Prom King [3:37]
3. The Bet [7:33]
4. Profound Disorientation [3:03]
5. The Committee [5:46]
6. Richard [6:06]
7. Evening Fitness Walk [2:51]
8. The Town Pool [9:39]
9. Cooling Off [5:50]
10. Scattered Showers [4:50]
11. May and Ronnie [4:24]
12. The Attic [2:08]
13. Riding With Larry [6:00]
14. Flaubert [3:39]
15. The Test [9:26]
16. The Date [4:25]
17. Coming Home [6:08]
18. Lucy's Mom [3:28]
19. The Big Game [6:13]
20. Save the Children [5:55]
21. Ronnie Comes Home [5:11]
22. Running Away [5:01]
23. End Credits [13:01]

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Oscar-nominated filmmaker Todd Field teams with novelist Tom Perrotta to adapt Perrotta's acclaimed novel concerning the suburban malaise experienced by a handful of small-town individuals whose intersecting lives converge in a variety of surprising, and sometimes ominous, ways. Kate Winslet, Jennifer Connelly, and Patrick Wilson star in a cinematic adaptation that doesn't aim so much to simply reproduce the book for the screen as it does to re-imagine the written word by exploring new possibilities for the characters and situations originally presented in Perrotta's 2004 best-seller. Sarah (Winslet) is a suburban outsider who, unlike the other playground moms, isn't afraid to approach the dreamy but long-absent father whom smitten housewives have taken to calling the "Prom King." Long days at the local community pool with their respective children soon find Sarah becoming acquainted with local husband and father Brad (Patrick Wilson) -- who seems to share in her seething discontentment with life in their quaint commuter town. An English literature major who never envisioned a fate as a soccer mom, Sarah has a growing dissatisfaction with her successful husband (Gregg Edelman) that parallels Brad's increasing frustration with his inability to pass the bar and connect with his wife, Kathy (Jennifer Connelly), a successful documentary filmmaker. It's not long before the dejected pair is meeting for a series of illicit afternoon trysts as their unsuspecting spouses work and their children lie quietly napping. Meanwhile, after the community is riled by the return of a convicted sex offender (Jackie Earle Haley) who leaves the concerned parents scrambling to protect their young ones, an attempt made by Sarah and Brad to legitimize their clandestine relationship by dining together with their respective spouses begins to awaken Kathy's suspicions about the fidelity of her husband. Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

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Little Childrenby Anonymous

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May 11, 2007: I can really only say this film is AMAZING. The acting, the plot, everything in this film was nothing short of brilliant. When a family moves to suburbia, things aren't as perfect as they seem. A pedafile is in the area, affairs are growing like weeds, and everyone starts keeps secrets from the ones they love the most. If you mixed my two recommended titles into one, that's Little Children. A film that doesn't care how far it goes, or how much it affects others. It's daring, original, & controversial. By the end, you'll be floored...

Little Childrenby Anonymous

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May 03, 2007: LITTLE CHILDREN is one of the finest films of the past decade, a film that is intensely intelligent in concept, in writing, in acting, and in production values. It is rare to find a film so right in every aspect, dealing with aspects of living we'd all rather overlook while at the same time recognizing bits and pieces of ourselves and of those around us in manner that contributes to the frightening credibility of the story. Todd Field, so highly respected for his previous film 'In the Bedroom', directs the story from the novel by Tom Perrotta with whom he wrote the screenplay. It deals with the way children perceive the world, even when those children are of adult age. Thwarted Sarah (Kate Winslet) is bored with her life in a little town in Massachusetts where she lives a tepid life with her sexually absent husband Richard (Gregg Edelman) who prefers online porno to Sarah's needs. Sarah and her daughter Lucy spend the days at the park (with bitchy nosey boring fellow housewives and their children) and encounters the stay-at-home Dad, Brad (Patrick Wilson), called the 'Prom King' by the klatch. Sarah and Brad meet and a slow and smoldering 'affair' begins (Brad is married to the beautiful but distant Kathy (Jennifer Connelly): they are each seeking to fill the needs that they perceive have eluded them. Meanwhile the town is set on its ear by the return of convicted Ronnie (Jackie Earle Haley), released from jail for exposing himself to little children, and now living with his mother who is a strong mother and loves her son despite his past. The story is told to us by a narrator who unwinds the events like a channeler, showing how each of these disparate people come to realize that they are each acting with retarded, regressive emotional skills usually found only in children. And in the end of the story each has been forced to mature - or have they? The entire cast is brilliant as is the quality of direction by Field. The musical score and the hauntingly beautiful cinematography add to the pulsating rhythm of this exploration of the psyches of 21st century adults. It may be a difficult movie to watch for some, but it is a triumph of cinematic art. Highly Recommended. Grady Harp


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