The lives of two lovelorn spouses from separate marriages, a registered sex offender, and a disgraced ex-police officer intersect as they struggle to resist their vulnerabilities and temptations.
Nominated for 3 Oscars. 20 wins & 61 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
Little Children includes all the cliched scenarios of a midday TV sudser, but they're ratcheted up several seedy degrees.
– Kathy Cano Murillo,
Arizona Republic,
4 Jan 2007
fresh:
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.
– J. R. Jones,
Chicago Reader,
5 Jan 2007
rotten:
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.
– Jim Emerson,
Chicago Sun-Times,
5 Jan 2007
fresh:
Well-acted and meticulously crafted, Little Children can feel less like a full-blooded representation of life than a disquieting literary exercise.
– Robert Denerstein,
Denver Rocky Mountain News,
5 Jan 2007
fresh:
Little Children is disturbing and smart and the best satire of modern American suburbia since American Beauty.