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Little Children

• 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. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA

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.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









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