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Little Children
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0794043106576
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 20
Label: New Line Home Video
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language),
Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
MPN: N10657
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: New Line Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 01, 2007
Running Time: 137 minutes
Studio: New Line Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: November 03, 2006
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Editorial Review:
Kate Winslet Jennifer Connelly and Patrick Wilson star in the Academy Award nominated film Little Children the latest work from Oscar-nominated writer/director Todd Field. Based on the novel by Tom Perrotta Little Children centers on a handful of middle-class suburban parents whose lives unravel in the wake of an adulterous affair.Running Time: 137 min.System Requirements:Runtime: 130 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: PG - 13 UPC: 794043106576 Manufacturer No: N10657
Kate Winslet operates at a galaxy-class level in Little Children, Todd Field's gratifyingly grown-up look at unhappy suburbia. Winslet is magnificent, in an Oscar-nominated performance, as a stroller-pushing mom who becomes attracted to a passive househusband (Patrick Wilson). Their slow-burning infidelity (Field wisely allows time to pass in this unhurried film) is contrasted with a more sensational subplot, about a convicted pedophile (Jackie Earle Haley, also Oscar nominated) returning to the neighborhood to live with his mother (Phyllis Somerville). Field, who brought his civilized approach to In the Bedroom, uses a deliberately literary style here, including a device with a narrator who sounds as though he's sitting at our side as he reads from Tom Perotta's novel. (The narrator is a superb touch--his cultivated voice distances us from the sloppy passions of the characters.) The film's biggest miscalculation is a self-appointed neighborhood vigilante (Noah Emmerich) determined to make life miserable for the pedophile. But Wilson is appropriately nebulous, Jennifer Connelly solid as his wife, and Haley (child star of the Bad News Bears movies), as the creepy, childlike molester, found himself rediscovered after a long career layoff. There's decent acting here, but Winslet is in a zone of her own, with so much emotional honesty and subtlety of expression that she transforms a good movie into a must-see. --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Overwhelmingly Depressing
A town is terrified by the release from prison of a man who exposed himself to a little girl. The man most vocally concerned has his own dirty secrets, as do many others who are likewise, and rightfully judgmental of the pervert. The director lets us know that despite his punishment, he will behave inappropriately repeatedly. But then again, so will everyone else. It's just that his particular perversion demands an audience.
Others have affairs, conducted largely in front of their children, ... Read More
Rating: - thought-provoking
I saw the film and loved it, and then read the book which was terrific and funny. Then, I watched the film again and I saw something different in it this time. Todd Fields (In The Bedroom) has great talent for poetry on film and allowing scenes to play out fully for the actors.
Rating: - Winslet is superb, the movie so-so
Kate Winslet enlivens this adaption of the novel by Tom Perrotta with a terrific performance. The movie stays remarkably true to the book, leaving out only one sub-plot (and that is a relief).
But the book seemed weightier than the movie. Despite the occasional intervention of a portentious-sounding narrator, very little seems at stake in this fable. In the book, the themes seemed more universal. In the movie, for some reason they appeared fairly petty and routine -- the usual dilemmas of ... Read More
Rating:  - thought provoking
This movie definitely made me think. The title "Little Children" is so appropriate as the name of the movie depicts a solid theme that permeates the entire movie.
Just don't watch it with "little children" or any children, for it is made for adults. I found this movie to be well acted, and well made.
The "little children" POINTS that I can see in this movie:
1) The movie cleverly starts out in the McGorvey house, with Ronnie
(the town's child sex offender ... Read More
Rating: - Children with full grown inhibitions
" Little Children " is one of the those rare gems of filmmaking that is a remisniscent of early 70's films. It takes it's time with the unfolding stories and character development. The narraration is outstanding and represents the talents of a phenominal script.
Between the infidelities of two married people , a pedophile , an ex cop , a tormented mother , a work focused wife , and a lonely husband , " Little Children " is weaved together perfectly. So perfect , that I felt compelled to recommend ... Read More
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