Little Children: The Shooting Script

by Todd Field, Tom Perrotta

Overview

Little Children centers on a handful of individuals whose livesintersect on the playgrounds, town pools, and streets of theirsmall community in surprising and potentially dangerousways. While it is based on an acclaimed novel, Todd Field andTom Perrotta wanted to create a film that stood on its own,independent of the book. Tom Perrotta says: "For me, as anovelist, the attraction of a film adaptation lies precisely in thisopportunity to re-imagine my book with someone else, andexplore new possibilities for the characters and the story."

Todd Field elaborates: "The struggle for identity is whatthese characters battle from the start; it leads to a hunger theyare unable to satiate—violence and fear hold sway. The shameof how they see themselves when the fingers start pointing.It was with this idea in mind that Tom and I began our worktogether."

This Newmarket Shooting Script^® Book includes:

• Introduction by Tom Perrotta
• New Yorker film review by David Denby
• Complete Shooting Script
• 30 color still photographs
• Cast and filmmaker credits

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781557047779
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	01/02/2007
Series:	Shooting Script
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.38(h) x (d)

About the Author

Todd Field, director, producer, andco-writer of Little Children, made hisfeature film debut at the SundanceFilm Festival with In the Bedroom,which won international acclaim andfive Academy Award^® nominations,including Best Screenplay andBest Picture.

Tom Perrotta, co-writer, is theauthor of five acclaimed works offiction—Little Children, Election, TheWishbones, Joe College, and BadHaircut. In addition to writing fictionand screenplays, he has worked as ajournalist and college teacher.

Editorial Reviews

"Believe me, seldom these days does one encounter such an intricate narrative so persuasively performed." -- Andrew Sarris

"Superb! Mr. Field proves to be among the most literary of American filmmakers. The result is a movie that is challenging, accessible and hard to stop thinking about." -- A. O. Scott

"Todd Field's extraordinary new movie is a sharply intelligent and affecting view--a much bigger canvas than Field's previous movie, 'In the Bedroom.'...Field has grown in ambition, but he still works on an intimate scale. He surrounds his characters with an intense stillness, and then slowly introduces the ungovernable into their lives....Field works with such fluid grace and perception that the movie goes right to the top." -- David Denby

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