LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Academy Award-winning actress Jennifer Connelly is in negotiations to join Kate Winslet in "Little Children" for New Line Cinema.

Todd Field, the filmmaker behind the Oscar-nominated 2001 drama "In the Bedroom," is set to direct the adaptation of the Tom Perrotta novel. Field and Perrotta are co-writing the screenplay.

The novel revolves around a group of weird, suburban characters and their relationships with children. There's a bisexual feminist addicted to Internet porn (Winslet), a stay-at-home dad who resists his wife's ambitious plans for him, an uptight "supermom" who schedules sex with her husband and a paedophile fresh out of prison.