Little Children centers on a group of young marrieds, whose lives intersect on the playgrounds, town pools and streets of their small community in surprising and potentially dangerous ways.

Director: Todd Field
Writers: Tom Perrotta (novel), Todd Field & Tom Perrotta (screenplay)

Cast:
Kate Winslet ... Sarah Pierce
Patrick Wilson ... Brad Adamson
Jennifer Connelly ... Kathy Adamson
Gregg Edelman ... Richard Pierce
Sadie Goldstein ... Lucy Pierce
Ty Simpkins ... Aaron Adamson
Noah Emmerich ... Larry Hedges
Jackie Earle Haley ... Ronald James McGorvey
Phyllis Somerville ... May McGorvey
Raymond J. Barry ... Bullhorn Bob

Released on: November 3, 2006

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After accepting the role of Sarah, Kate Winslet suggested Patrick Wilson for Brad.

The uncredited narrator is Will Lyman.

"I wouldn't have been able to play this part if I wasn't a mother. Your whole body language is completely dictated by the fact that you have children."

On hers and Patrick Wilson's racy sex scene: "It's really weird but at a point you forget you're naked with a relative stranger!"

"It's fun to play somebody who's not supposed to look great. I was like, 'Let's put her in the worst shirt and overalls you've ever seen'. I was in heaven!"

"It's just about people and everyone's very, very real. It's just a very honest, pure film in that sense. Almost unnervingly so at some points. You just think, 'Oh my God, is this a documentary?' And I like that about it. It feels quite European to me too and I have quite a soft spot obviously for smaller films anyway. That was just an extraordinary experience."

"The difficult thing in playing that part for me—aside from the accent and all the nudity—was that I realised halfway through shooting that I didn't really respect this woman that I was playing. If I met her in the playground I'd just think, 'Oh Jesus, what a flake. Just pull yourself together and brush your hair. And be more hands-on with your child."

"I felt so sorry for Sarah. And yes, there were some thing about her that I related to. Not necessarily things about me right now, but things in my past, when I was flailing around, searching for happiness. Part of the female make-up is, you want to find a man and you want to settle down. That's what ended up crushing Sarah. Could that have been me? Well, yeah. Definitely. When you're unhappy you make some terrible decisions and then you get that smack in the mouth, a huge moment of realisation like, 'What was I thinking?' I've had those."

"…There are so many fragments of human minutiae parading around here, and that's what makes Children an unbelievably good, transporting film..." — FilmJerk.com

"...A film that embraces the complexities of human nature instead of pretending that they don't exist." — Moneycontrol

"...The movie is consistently fascinating to watch. Not an easy movie, but definitely worth watching..." — Di-ve

"...The story has the tight focus of the best novellas, a tart balance between cynicism and humanism..." — StarTribune.com

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