The director of "In the Bedroom" and "Little Children" on the pleasures ... and got the movie up and running in 24 months, which felt like forever for Field at the time but which he now ...

In "Little Children," the arrival of a convicted child ... before her regular gathering of playground moms. Director Todd Field and co-writer Tom Perrotta (who adapted his book of the same name ...

Based on a novel by Tom Perrotta, Todd Field's Little Children seems to come from the perspective of someone who has an opinion about suburban life without having logged much time there.

"They ran this program through their children, their grandchildren ... and they were ready to be at the field watching their grandkids, versus running the Little League. They are ready to retire ...