Little Children

Sarah Pierce (Kate Winslet) is a reluctant housewife in a upper-middle class suburb of Boston. She hates her life as she is her husband's second wife and the house she lives in is a hand-me-down from her mother-in-law and is decorated by her husband's first wife. Sarah goes to the playground every day with her daughter, Lucy (Sadie Goldstein). Sarah hates the playground because she has to have idle conversation with the other wives.

One day Brad "The Prom King" Adamson (Patrick Wilson) shows up at the playground and all the housewives go into a tizzy. One of the ladies bets Sarah to get Brad's phone number. They end up kissing instead and the ladies freak out and grab their children. We learn that Brad is a stay at home dad that has failed the bar exam twice. His wife Kathy (Jennifer Connelly) is a very successful documentary film maker.

Sarah & Brad strike up a very close friendship which mainly involves taking their kids to the community pool. Their friendship soon begins to turn into a sored affair. There are questions that begin to arise, should they run off together? Should they continue this relationship?

Meanwhile, Ronald "Ronnie" James McGorvey (Jackie Earle Haley), who has just been released from prison for indecent exposure to a minor has moved back into the neighborhood to move back in with his mother, May (Phyllis Somerville). A former police officer Larry Hedges (Noah Emmerich) is pretty much stalks him throughout the movie.

This movie was fairly decent. Kate Winslet looked sort of rough, but I think that was the point to ugly her up. The film was a very disturbing look at everyday housewives. The whole pervert storyline was sort of weird. The end is really jacked up too. I give this movie a 7 out of 10.