Little Children
In the periphery of town filled with impeccable parents who are determined to prepare their children to be Harvard graduates, a housewife is having a relationship with a former jock who is also a stay-at-home father who objects his wife's desires to be a highly paid lawyer.
13 January 1944, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
March 19, 1944 in Johnson City, Texas, USA
24 August 1974, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
10 January 1947, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
January 04, 2007
Little Children includes all the clichéd scenarios of a midday TV sudser, but they're ratcheted up several seedy degrees.
January 05, 2007
Little Children is disturbing and smart and the best satire of modern American suburbia since American Beauty.
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
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.
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.
January 04, 2007
A beautifully observed, profoundly moving tale of suburban malaise.
February 09, 2011
It's not necessarily a cautionary tale, but more a look within a surface utopia that doesn't really exist.
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.
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.
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
Well-acted and meticulously crafted, Little Children can feel less like a full-blooded representation of life than a disquieting literary exercise.

