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Directed by | Todd Field |
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Based on | Little Children by Tom Perrotta |
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Cinematography | Antonio Calvache |
Edited by | Leo Trombetta |
Music by | Thomas Newman |
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Distributed by | New Line Cinema |
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Running time | 137 minutes[2] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $26 million[1] |
Box office | $14.8 million[1] |
Little Children is a 2006 satirical melodrama film[3] directed by Todd Field, based on the 2004 novel of the same name by Tom Perrotta who co-wrote the screenplay with Field. It follows Sarah Pierce (Kate Winslet), an unhappy housewife who has an affair with a married neighbor (Patrick Wilson). Also starring are Jennifer Connelly, Jackie Earle Haley, Noah Emmerich, Gregg Edelman, Phyllis Somerville and Will Lyman.
Little Children premiered at the 44th New York Film Festival, and was released October 6, 2006, on 5 screens, earning $145,946, with a $29,189 per-screen average. However, during its 64 weeks in theaters, 32 screens were the most on which New Line Cinema ever exhibited the film, only briefly increasing that count to 109 in the few weeks leading up to the 79th Academy Awards.[4] Consequently, few cinema-goers had access to it, significantly limiting its earnings. Despite this, it won numerous critics' group prizes and received Oscar nominations for Best Actress for Winslet, Best Supporting Actor for Haley, and Best Adapted Screenplay for Field and Perrotta.