Best Actress nominee Kate Winslet gives a tour-de-force performance in this gripping and incisive slice of suburban life set in Massachusetts. She plays an unhappy housewife who enters into a ruinous affair with a restless stay-at-home dad (Patrick Wilson). Best Supporting Actor nominee Jackie Earle Haley costars as a paroled pedophile trying to jump-start his life. Directed by Todd Field, who co-wrote the script with Tom Perrotta, upon whose novel the Oscar-nominated screenplay is based.