Little Children

[Killroy]

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Little Children

Directors: Todd Field
Actors: Kate Winslet, Patrick Wilson, Jennifer Connelly, Gregg Edelman, Sadie Goldstein
Genres: Drama, Romance
DVD Release Date: May 1, 2007
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Number of discs: 1
Rating: R
Studio: New Line Home Video
Run Time: 137 minutes
ASIN: B000N3SU92

Amazon.com Plot Synopsis:
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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This is a good movie, people. You should try to check it out.

[Tobe_Romero]

Rented it. Will watch tomorrow probably.

[Killroy]

I think you will really like this one. Great performances all around.

[Tobe_Romero]

WoW!

I'll have to let it sink in, but after watching Little Children last night, I'd put in in a tie for top 3 of 2006 w/ Children of Men and Pan's Labyrinth. Seriously, I had no idea I'd like it that much. At first, I thought it was gonna be some cross between Desperate Housewives with a less kinky Blue Velvet. Then, it started reminding me of American Beauty and ultimately Magnolia. In a nutshell, it was kind of Magnolia-lite for me.

QUESTION 1

WHAT did the note that Ronnie read from his mom say??? I couldn't make it out. I thought it said "Be good Ronnie" but it sent him into such a rage.

QUESTION 2

Why was Jennifer Connaly's character staring so hard at Kate Winslet's toes when she was under the table? I must have missed something that would explain the focus of that part of the scene.

[Killroy]

QUESTION 1

WHAT did the note that Ronnie read from his mom say??? I couldn't make it out. I thought it said "Be good Ronnie" but it sent him into such a rage.


In order to honor his Mother's wish of "be a good boy" (knowing damn well that she was pleading with him not to repeat any of his behaviors now that she was no longer there) he did the only thing he knew that would keep him from dis-honoring her wishes. He castrated himself.

QUESTION 2

Why was Jennifer Connaly's character staring so hard at Kate Winslet's toes when she was under the table? I must have missed something that would explain the focus of that part of the scene.


She had caught on that her husband and this woman were closer than he had led on earlier. She dropped the fork to look under the table to see if they were playing footsies or not.

[Tobe_Romero]

She had caught on that her husband and this woman were closer than he had led on earlier. She dropped the fork to look under the table to see if they were playing footsies or not.

I figured that (the literal narrator explained that). It was a lingering shot under the table of Kate's sandals her blue painted toenails. It was one of those longer than usual lingering shots that always have some relevance (like a foreshadow). Maybe I am making too much of it, but it was a good 5 second shot of her feet.

[Killroy]

I may have to re-watch that table scene again.

[AnalBreeze]

I was tring to figure out if I wanted to see this.
Workin' at Movie Gallery I see the trailer for it alot and everytime I see it,
I want to see it more! Now you guys have made up my mind, I'm gettin' it! Thanks!