Synopsis: 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.
Directed By: Todd Fields
Release Dates
Canada : September 2006 | Toronto Film Festival
USA : November 22, 2006 | New York City, New York
USA : November 22, 2006 | Los Angeles, California
USA : December 13, 2006 | limited
“Little Children” Shafted at the Golden Globes Those who tuned into the Golden Globes telecast on Monday saw the usual pomp and circumstance of a Hollywood Foreign Press Association awards show. Save for that pesky clip of dramatic Best Picture nominee “Little Children” that failed to make an appearance alongside the other nominated films throughout the evening.
January 16th, 2007
Vancouver awards Little Children gets best film and best actress noms.
Iowa Film Critics pick “Little Children” The Iowa Film Critics Association has picked Todd Field’s “Little Children” as its best picture of 2006. Helen Mirren named Best Actress.
January 10th, 2007
Winslet’s ‘Little’ challenge Whatever connections she felt with this script, Winslet knew it had one thing she loves — risk. It would be risky to revisit her painful, insecure teen years. The film’s subject matter would be even more troubling.
January 9th, 2007
Kate Winslet Vanishes Into Her Roles It becomes easy to understand how Mr. Field felt when, once “Little Children” was done, he took a print to England, where Mr. Mendes and Ms. Winslet have a house, to show his star the movie. Trouble was, he couldn’t quite recognize her. “It was almost disturbing,” he recalled. “I thought: ‘This isn’t Kate Winslet.’”
January 4th, 2007
David Poland’s Top Ten Little Children is the best film of 2006 because it gets to heart of what all the best movies are after, writ is clean, simple, challenging script. Who are we? Who do we hope to be? What is the truth of how we see ourselves and how others see us?
Online Film Critics Nominations Little Children gets three nominations. Best actress, best supporting actor and best adapted screenplay
December 21st, 2006
The movie’s the thing, not the review Kate Winslet is no narcissistic prima donna. She doesn’t read her own clippings, let alone believe them. If she did pay attention to them, she says, she just couldn’t concentrate on doing her job.
December 19th, 2006
Chicago Film Critics noms Little Children gets best screenplay, best supporting actor and best actress noms.
December 15th, 2006
London critics favor ‘Queen’ The London Film Critics have nominated Kate Winslet for Best British Actress for her role as Sarah Pierce in Little Children.
December 14th, 2006
Golden Globe nominations Little Children gets three main noms: Best picture (Drama), Best Actress and Best Screenplay.
The nominees for best actress in a drama are Penelope Cruz, Judi Dench, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Helen Mirren, and Kate Winslet.
December 12th, 2006
San Francisco film critics circle awards The San Francisco Film Critics Circle awarded the suburban-melancholy drama “Little Children” with its honor for the Best Picture of 2006, the group announced Tuesday. LC also wins best adapted screenplay and best supporting actor (Jackie Earle Haley).
BFCA Nominees “Little Children” as best picture, Todd Field and Tom Perrota as writers and Kate.
Flushed away between best animated feature.
December 8th, 2006
A Chat with Kate Before meeting Kate Winslet, Charlize Theron was at the top of the list in terms of beautiful Hollywood actresses I had met in person and that is saying something considering Winslet has two children and a body that would never let you know it.
December 1st, 2006
Satellite Awards nominate seven dramas “Little Children” gets Best Picture Drama, Best Actor (Patrick Wilson), Best Actress, and Best Adapted Screenplay (Todd Field, Tom Perrota) noms. “Flushed Away” is also nominated.
Winslet likely nom as desperate housewife It turns out there also are some truly desperate housewives to be found in the suburban setting of Todd Field’s “Little Children.” Chief among them is Kate Winslet, who’s likely to walk off with much deserved best actress Oscar and Golden Globes nominations for her performance as an unhappy wife-mother looking for and finding love outside her empty marriage.
November 30th, 2006
‘Half Nelson’ tops Gotham Awards Ceremony, which took place at Chelsea Piers’ Pier 60, also saw tributes to Kate Winslet, Edward Norton, Todd Wagner, Mark Cuban and Ellen Kuras, with extensive video montages to all of them.
