Since I've been talking about not watching it for a month

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I finally sat down and watched "Little Children" tonight. And it was quite good. It's my type of story - suburban angst with a fair amount of humor, like a "sex, lies & videotape" or an "American Beauty". I was wondering why the screenwriters felt it necessary to include these beautiful bits of voice-over narration that would be fitting in a book, but not so much a movie. Turns out the novelist co-scripted the film, so I guess he kept a few of his darlings. I liked the voice-over stuff, but somehow the quality of it called to mind the narrator in "The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh." And I'm going to bite the bullet and give Kate Winslet the credit she deserves. She completely inhabited the character and won me over from the beginning. I could start heaping loads of praise on it, but let me just say that it was good all the way across the board.