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Genres:
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Drama /
Romance
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Director:
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Todd Field
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Actors:
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Trini Alvarado,
Phyllis Somerville,
Gregg Edelman,
Sadie Goldstein,
Ty Simpkins,
Helen Carey,
Mary B. McCann,
Catherine Wolf,
Kate Winslet,
Patrick Wilson,
Jennifer Connelly,
Noah Emmerich,
Jackie Earle Haley,
Marsha Dietlein,
Jane Adams
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Duration:
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131 min.
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Rating:
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(7.9/10)118.5
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Plot Summary:
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Echoes of "Madame Bovary" in the American suburbs. Sarah's in a loveless marriage, eat one's heart out days with her young daughter at the reserve and the pool, wanting more. Brad is a househusband, married to a flinty documentary filmmaker. Ronnie is legitimate outside of prison - two years for indecent expos‚ - living with his mother; Larry is a retired cop, fixated on driving Ronnie away. Sarah and Brad rivet, a respite of grown-up companionship at the pool. Ronnie and Larry take their demons. Brad should be studying for the bar; Larry misses his job; Ronnie's mom thinks he needs a girlf... riend. Sarah longs to refuse to be trapped in an unhappy life. Where can these tangled paths lead?
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Kate is the Oscar line up!
Blending the bleak irony and senstivity of 'American Beauty' with the sardonic wit of 'Desperate Housewives', This great film was one of the best of last year, despite having a low key cinema release.
Yet the film is perhaps more suited to the smaller screen reinforcing the claustrophobia of its surburban setting.
Kate Winslet plays Sarah, an uphappy new mum who begins affair with her equally disillusioned neigbour.
As their illict passion intensifies, we meet an array of intriguing number of characters each with their own secrets.
Although the ending is a little excessive, a funny and deeply moving portrait of a seemingly friendly community in crisis is captured with style.
The performances are all excellent, with Kate Winslet on truly ...
Little Children
Todd McCarthyDisplaying many of the same qualities that distinguished Todd Field's debut feature, In the Bedroom, Little Children is a deftly made, emotionally acute and at times a tad fastidious examination of cracks in middle-class American family life. Adroitly adapted from Tom Perrotta's fine and popular 2004 novel with every literary reference neatly in place, this New Line release about an affair between a married man and woman in a community troubled by the return of an unwelcome neighbor will tie many viewers, particularly women, up in knots, and should follow in the critically and commercially successful footsteps of its director's previous picture.
Literary feel is established at the outset by the dry, oh-so-faintly superior tone of the narration (commentary'...
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