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This is a story about parents who aim to be perfect and are now prepping their children to get enrolled in Harvard. On the other hand a house wife and a stay at home dad are having a secret affair.
23 March 1965, Sacramento County, California, USA
12 December 1943, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
3 July 1973, Norfolk, Virginia, USA
14 July 1961, Northridge, California, USA
March 19, 1944 in Johnson City, Texas, USA
1965
22 February 1929, New York City, New York, USA
23 January 1965, Blythe, California, USA
12 August 1952, Brooklyn, New York, USA
March 26, 2016
That a movie can inspire smirks in the same scene where a potential predator is seen scuba diving in the community swimming pool underneath hundreds of young children is one of the most notable feats of any modern motion picture.January 05, 2007
I didn't like any of these characters, but I kept pulling for them anyway -- right up to the shock-o-riffic ending, when I felt I'd been sucker-punched.January 05, 2007
As in Field's first film, the characters are drawn with such compassion their follies become our own and their desires seem as vast as the night sky.January 05, 2007
Little Children is disturbing and smart and the best satire of modern American suburbia since American Beauty.January 04, 2007
Little Children includes all the clichéd scenarios of a midday TV sudser, but they're ratcheted up several seedy degrees.February 09, 2011
It's not necessarily a cautionary tale, but more a look within a surface utopia that doesn't really exist.July 06, 2010
As commentary on our time, it may be accurate. As movie drama, it isn't so much overheated as reheated in the microwave on high.April 27, 2012
More than just another dissection of suburban sexual frustration, its concern with children, parents and those of us who lie somewhere in-between make Little Children a minor masterpiece.September 02, 2014
Playing up her sturdiness, her furry dark brows and the wiry unruliness of her old-gold hair, Winslet is the best Emma Bovary I've seen-even if she's named Sarah, not Emma.January 05, 2007
Well-acted and meticulously crafted, Little Children can feel less like a full-blooded representation of life than a disquieting literary exercise.January 04, 2007
A beautifully observed, profoundly moving tale of suburban malaise.