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Sarah Pierce (Kate Winslet), the thirtyish heroine of Todd Field's extraordinary new movie, "Little Children," dropped out of graduate school to marry an older man--a business consultant--and moved into a neo-Colonial house near Boston that he inherited from his mother. Some years have gone by, and the marriage is not in the best shape: Sarah's husband communes on the Internet with a friendly person known as Slutty Kay, and Sarah, unwilling to hire any help, feels imprisoned by their three-year-old daughter, whom she (rather negligently) looks after by herself. Sarah is the latest version of the baffled Americans that Betty ...

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