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02/14/07
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.
Runtime: 2 hrs 17 mins
Genre: Dramas
US Box Office: $5,307,219
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
1 - 20 (sorted by fresh rating; Australian critics are listed first)
Top CriticThe complexity of the relationships is meticulously portrayed, although at times overly earnest. Nonetheless, it's a powerful piece of cinema and one that reverberates and impacts by its themes.
02/01/07
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02/09/07
Top CriticThe success Fields has with this film comes through the uncomfortable intersection between comedy, melodrama and tragedy. Oh, and romance.
12/30/06
Top CriticTodd Fields' superb film adaptation of the novel by Tom Perrotta result is challenging, accessible and hard to stop thinking about.
09/28/06
Top CriticSeldom these days does one encounter such an intricate narrative so persuasively performed by the entire cast, most notably by Ms. Winslet and Mr. Wilson as the adulterous lovers.
10/25/06
Little Children refers not only to the kids that the parents worry about but also to the adults who often behave immaturely.
11/17/06
Although thought-provoking and full of outstanding performances, Little Children still can't escape a little of the same ambivalence that traps its suburban characters.
10/06/06
Complicated, involving and just plain smart, Children is the kind of movie that worms its way back into your head days after you've seen it.
10/19/06
Little Children is something of a head-scratcher. A time-released head-scratcher. And that's a good thing.
11/17/06
Little Children is about as close as a movie can get to literature %u2014 rich, nuanced, erudite and multi-layered.
02/28/08
A wonderfully impulsive, engrossing journey of lustful temptation and an engaging snapshot of fixation.
01/04/07
One of the few films I can think of that examines the baffling combination of smugness, self-abnegation, ceremonial deference and status anxiety that characterizes middle-class Gen X parenting, and find sheer, white-knuckled terror at its core.
10/05/06
Top Critic[The] performances help director Todd Field (In the Bedroom) calibrate a masterful mix of humor, tragedy and heavy stylization.
01/05/07
Finally, here's a film that embraces human nature instead of twisting it into something ridiculously palatable.
10/19/06
Tonal inconsistencies don't blunt the keenness of its satire, so sharp that I walked out with emotional razor burn.
10/19/06
In a world where you don't always get what you want, when happiness seekers get a chance at an adventure, they jump at it, no matter where it leads.
10/22/06
may not be the great follow-up we wanted after In the Bedroom, but it still verifies that the skill he showed there is no fluke
10/03/06
Unexpected compassion is one of the few hopeful things in Little Children, which will not be easy for moviegoers to shake. I saw it three months ago and I'm still chewing over its central irony.
01/04/07
It is a shrewd, darkly humorous look at supposed civility, at the ways in which we allow ourselves to settle and a rare depiction of motherhood as a less-than-awesome experience.
10/20/06
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