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excessive and annoying
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"2006 (USA) dir Todd Field Kate Winslet, Patrick Wilson, Jennifer ConnellyLittle Children centres 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.The film doesn't hit the right notes for me. Its story is excessive, the perverts fate is ridiculous and if you can listen to the narrator throughout, without feeling even slightly annoyed then you deserve a medal. It's obvious the writers struggled to adapt the original text and settled for the easy option... fill it with decent actors and hope the audience doesn't notice.Kate Winslet is far better than the material, but she's still not a big enough reason to watch this mess. "
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Has some nice moments
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"If you struggle with loneliness or disillusionment this movie definitely has something for you. There are some touching scenes between Sarah and Brad--without a doubt. Kate Winslet has some very nice moments--she really makes the movie worthwhile. "
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10 Best Masturbation Scenes
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"Andrew Sarris may be one of the most influential American film critics, but here’s a claim, located within his recent review of In Search of a Midnight Kiss, that may not hold up to some of his better-remembered theories: “Even when we confront 40-year-old virgins of either gender, movies refuse to show them compensating for the lack of a sexual partner. There is lasting shame involved in this spectacle.” Not to ever, ever profess superiority over Sarris, but I’ve nonetheless compiled today’s list as a way of proving the man wrong. There are actually tons and tons of masturbation scenes found in non-porn movies, from the low brow to the high brow, from as indirect as the boy wizard playing with his wand under the covers in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban to as direct as the non-simulated masturbation in Michael Winterbottom’s 9 Songs and John Cameron Mitchell’s Shortbus (which would probably feature my #1 pick, from the sound of it, if I ev "
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The Dark Victory of Jezebel ove ...
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"I really enjoyed Dark Victory. Bette Davis ("Wicked Stepmother") stars as a young socialite diagnosed with a brain tumor. She then must decide how to live out the last days of her life. I couldn't take my eyes off Davis, she just lights up the screen, even when she's dying. Humphrey Bogart ("The Harder They Fall") has a cameo as a horse trainer and his scenes with Davis are some of the best. Though the plot description sounds depressing and I did end up crying, it's not necessarily a sad film. There's a lot to think about here. Also, a young Ronald Reagan ("The Killers") puts in an appearance. Jezebel is another Bette Davis film, and though this is directed by William Wyler ("The Liberation of L.B. Jones"), Davis won an Oscar for her role and the film was nominated for best picture, I had some real problems with it. I know it's set in the Pre-Civil War South and Davis plays a Southern Belle, but really, the racism was hard for me to take. I know that slavery was not even part of t ... "
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falling in love...it isn't
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"unlike the deniro/streep film, this movie flies like a phoenix and busts into beautiful flames. no happy ending..perhaps. still a great night out...or in. wonderful acting. wonderful dialogue. i can almost hear the train coming now... "
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Field's Eye View
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"Director Todd Field certainly knows how to get good performances out of actors but the thing that stands out about LITTLE CHILDREN is that it feels as though the director is watching all the action from the crow's nest far above. Watching the film I was reminded of domestic dramas such as American Beauty and even a bit of Donnie Darko. There is a dispassionate, objective cast over the material which is primarily an exploration of the loneliness and frustration of middle class suburban life. LITTLE CHILDREN shows us bahavior (much of it narcissistic and immature) and lets the exposure of such behavior speak for itsself. The movie (rarely) stoops so low as to telegraph the emotional intent of a given scene. The experience is one of watching something and wondering when things will explode. Of course, when things finally do go bad it's in a way that you don't exactly expect, which is a tribuite to the material. The movie, though a bit conventional at times, is more ... "
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"Little Children is a masterpiece, a deeply moving film about people that will seem just a real those that you know, some of whom you will love, some of whom you will hate. I have never been more involved in a movie romance than I have with this movie. I didn't care about the people they would hurt, the families that would break up, or the pain they would put their children though. I wanted these people to be together. The lovers are Sarah (Kate Winslet) and Brad (Patrick Wilson) both of whom are married and of whose marriges are in trouble. We sense that the problem with Brad and his wife is mores ituational than emotional. as the couple hardly has any time together after the birth of their children. The same cannot be said for Sarah, whose husband (Gregg Edelmen) is distant addicted to internet porn. One day, while taking the kids to the park, the two meet and fall for each other. This sounds like traditional material, I know, but there is nothing formuliac about this film. ... "
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"The narration is great in the movie. It adds a story book quality but at the same time it is a real life story. You hate all of the charaters at some time or another but you end up feeling their pain and sympathize with them. The charaters end up where they should be which leaves you feeling ok with where the movie ended. "
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Thought Provoking
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"The greatest thing about this film is that every character in this film has good and bad qualities. Even the convicted sex offender managed to evoke a little bit of sypathy from me. More interesting to me, however, were the two lead characters played by Kate Winslet and Patrick Wilson. Although they were the romantic leads in the film, we were by no means meant to view them as guiltless lovers escaping bad marriages. In a somewhat surprising twist, both their spouses actually seemed to be halfway decent people. At least, they didn't ultimately seem any worse than the lead characters. The bad marriages weren't the result of a terrible spouse, but just the result of an unfortunately pairing of incompatible people. This type of moral ambiguity made the film really interesting to watch and think about later on. Without any easy answers, or easy judgements, Little Children is a far more interesting film than other films which cover the same subject matter. "
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Little Children
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"Saw a matinee of 'Little Children' this afternoon with the wife and my son. Powerful, intelligent film that reminded me a bit of 'American Beauty', with its 'trapped in suburbia' themes, desperately trapped characters, and just as many laugh out loud moments as cringe in your seat scenes. But unlike 'American Beauty' this one made me cry, and while I was totally expecting it not to have a happy ending, I wasn't prepared for the ending that it served up. A mixture of happiness, sadness, despair and oddly enough hope. I was initially assuming that Eddie Murphy was the front runner for Supporting Actor (and I might still be right in my original assumption), but after seeing Jackie Earle Haley in this film, I have to change horses. He was absolutely amazing. How you can be totally creeped out by a character and yet still find that little nugget of humanity and make the audience bond with you. Definitely on my list of 'best movies of 2006'. "
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