Such a frustrating disappointment

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Sarah Pierce (Kate Winslet) is in a loveless marriage and her husband is obsessed with internet porn "Slutty Kay". She is the least prepared mother in her group at the playground. The others have taken to calling Brad Adamson (Patrick Wilson) the "prom king" who brings his son to the park. He's married to documentary maker Kathy Adamson (Jennifer Connelly) and supposed to be studying for his bar exam but he doesn't. The girls are too scared to talk to him so Sarah decides to do it. They kiss to shock them but he can't leave it behind him. Brad's friend former cop Larry Hedges (Noah Emmerich) is obsessed with recently released pervert Ronnie J. McGorvey (Jackie Earle Haley).Todd Field delivers another awards worthy film. Patrick Wilson is made for this role. He has a creepy edge that keeps him from being the perfect nice leading man. There is no other Kate Winslet. If anything, she's too beautiful to be the frumpy housewife role. She's luminescent. The role fits more for somebody like Jane Adams. Speaking of Jane Adams, her scene with Jackie Earle Haley is supremely horrific. Jackie gets a well-deserved comeback. My biggest issue is the narration. It gives it a literary feel coming from the novel written by Tom Perrotta. It keeps the story at a distance from the audience. There is less immediacy. It feels fictional. Some may like this way more but I found the narration a little annoying.

a film about vulnerability. fears. desires to escape from yourself. errors. and the meaning of life. few characters. and admirable performances. immature relations, hunt of a suspect, family's crisis, the children as axis of universes in fall, small community's challenges and dark atmosphere. one of films about ordinary every day reality who impress. for the basic truth who is discovered scene by scene. for the pressure of conflicts. for the memories of different forms of Bovarism. for the force of fear and hate and punishment against yourself. for the images about life. for the beauty of illusions. and for the end of dreams. a beautiful film about solitude. and about the high price of escapes from the social expectations. a puzzle. well made. inspired circle of nuances.

Just to say first 7.5 is my original rating, I could give it an 8 though but settle on 7.5 but that doesn't mean that this film is not worth watching this is a very good drama movie I'd watched after a long time.The movie according to me is on the subject of infidelity or just say love finds its way and it can't be abandon. Every character plays a major or important role in the movie. The character I liked was of Brad to me he is reckless didn't take life seriously and ends in infidelity. So why the title "Little Children" the film focus on a guy (a pervert) played by Jackie Earle Haley who was released from the prison by committing a crime in front of a child anyways everyone in the town is scared of him that he might hurt their children in this way all the lives of characters somehow intervene. According to me what this movie really tells us is that its our children who need our attention, our love and affection, we should take care of them give them a happy and loving environment, despite of all the differences between us we should not destroy their childhood.And yes the ending was perfect and it couldn't be a better ending than this, So if you're looking for an adult drama movie this is the best choice for you.

This movie is clever, funny, and disturbing, which is a set of adjectives usually reserved for really good horror movies. And let's face it: this is, in many ways, horror film. How many scenes within it manage to make your stomach churn? It's indignation at close-minded people is almost satirical. Everyone in this film has some sort of problem. The literary allusions are spot on, if you consider 'Crime and Punishment' or 'Madame Bovary', and its willingness to leave a few subplots open is something of a ham-fisted brilliance. Hard to look past its more disturbing moments, though. I'm surprised there's not a suicide somewhere in a dark corner of this film's vaguely promising yet contemplatively messy ending.