Little Children2006
Little Children (2006)
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Critic Consensus: Little Children takes a penetrating look at suburbia and its flawed individuals with an unflinching yet humane eye.
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Cast
as Sarah Pierce
as Brad Adamson
as Kathy Adamson
as Ronald James McGorvey
as Richard Pierce
as Larry Hedges
as May McGorvey
as Lucy Pierce
as Aaron Adamson
as Marjorie
as Slutty Kay
as Mary Ann
as Theresa
as Cheryl
as Bullhorn Bob
as Secretary
as Sheila
as Tony Corrente
as Carla
as ICU Room Loved One
as Isabella
as Agitated Woman
as Troy
as Courtney
as Rogers, Dewayne
as Swimmer
as Bart Williams
as Olafson
as Richie Murphy
as Laurel
as Concerned Mother
as Small Man
as Josephine
as Bridget
as Slutty Kay Fan
as Christian
as Z
as Skateboarder 2
as skateboarder 3
as Mother with Cell Phone at Pool
as The Big Man
as Frank
as Familiar Man
as Steakhouse Waiter
as Country Club Mother
as Cabbie
as Kind Woman in Hospital
as ICU Counsellor
as ICU Nurse
as Boy in Katy's Documentary
as EMT
as Concerned Mom at Pool
as Concerned Mom at Pool
as Policeman at Pool
as Policeman at Pool
as Lifegaurd
as Snack Girl
as Wading Pool Mom
as Bartender
as Children at Steakhouse
as Ted From Richard's Office
as Ray From Next Door
as Auditor Team Captain
as Police Officer at McGorvey's
as Slutty Kay Fan Club Member
as Slutty Kay Fan Club Member
as Slutty Kay Fan Club Member
as Slutty Kay Fan Club Member
as Reporter
as off-screen anchor
as Concerned Parent
as Concerned Parent
as Concerned Parent
as Concerned Parent
as Background Football Player
as Skateboarder
as Skateboarder
as Skateboarder
as Skateboarder
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Critic Reviews for Little Children
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Little Children is disturbing and smart and the best satire of modern American suburbia since American Beauty.
Well-acted and meticulously crafted, Little Children can feel less like a full-blooded representation of life than a disquieting literary exercise.
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.
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.
Little Children includes all the clichéd scenarios of a midday TV sudser, but they're ratcheted up several seedy degrees.
Little Children slowly loses its grip, becoming just another story about infidelity, albeit an exceptionally polished, well-acted one.
Audience Reviews for Little Children
A good film, with some good acting talent. A tale of 2 people that meet and start ana affiar to escape their normal everyday lives. Although the sub plot of a child abuser being released back into their community didn't really fit in with the rest of the film.
Super Reviewer
Maybe my lack of understanding is what provides a low rating compared to its apparent popularity, but there is simply nothing to like about this pointless and uneventful movie about being disenchanted and disconnected with the world and people around you.
Super Reviewer
Author Tom Perrotta joined up with director/sometimes actor Todd Field to make an adaptation of his novel about the woes of living in suburbia, especially where the effects of adultery and having a registered sex offender living nearby are concerned. Incidentally, this is a lot like Revolutionary Road (and both star Kate Winslet), but this one is far less depressing, and has more obvious notes of sardonic satire. The film starts off really cooking with some sharp and rather witty satire, but then eventually devolves into overwrought melodrama that runs overlong and doesn't really tell me me anything I didn't really already know. Plus, the movie makes it seem like all suburbanites suffer like these characters do, and that's just not the case at all. I did enjoy the film a fair amount though, that much is certain. I'm mixed about the use of narration, especially since it mostly tells instead of showing, which gets to me. Also, I think the subplot about the sex offender could have been better incorporated into the story, especially since it is some of the best material here, with Jackie Earle Haley giving a brilliant performance in a really tough and unenviable role. The stuff concerning adultery and midlife crisis is somewhat on the nose and reeks of rehahing of better movies, but it is still decently well played, and no one here really gives a bad performance, although Connelly could have been used more, and it did sorta seem like the actors were fishing for Oscars at times. Still, the film looks great, the music's not bad, and I wasn't really as bored as I could have been.
Super Reviewer
Little Children Quotes
| Mary Ann: | Oh that's nice. So now cheating on your husband makes you a feminist? |
| Sarah Pierce: | No, no, no. It's not the cheating. It's the hunger - the hunger for an alternative and the refusal to accept a life of unhappiness. |
| Sarah Pierce: | My professors would kill me for even thinking this, but, in her own strange way Emma Bovary is a feminist. |
| Mary Ann: | Oh, that's nice. So now, cheating on your husband makes you a feminist. |
| Sarah Pierce: | No, no, no. It's not the cheating. It's the hunger. The hunger for an alternative and the refusal to accept a life of unhappiness. |
| May McGorvey: | There. You look handsome. She won´t be dissapointed |
| May McGorvey: | There. You look handsome. She won't be dissapointed |
| Ronnie J. McGorvey: | Wait´ll she hears about my criminal record |
| Ronnie J. McGorvey: | Wait'll she hears about my criminal record |
| May McGorvey: | I don´t think you need to get into that just yet. Why dont´t you stick to small talk? |