Academy Award-winning actress Jennifer Connelly is in negotiations to join Kate Winslet in "Little Children" for New Line Cinema.

Todd Field is set to direct the adaptation of the Tom Perrotta novel. Ron Yerxa and Albert Berger are producing the movie, based on a screenplay co-written by Field and Perrotta.

The film is based on the novel by Tom Perrotta about multiple groups of young marrieds whose paths unexpectedly cross, propelling them into a world that heretofore they had no idea existed.

Connelly, who won an Oscar for best supporting actress for "A Beautiful Mind," most recently starred in "House of Sand and Fog" and "The Hulk." Her other credits include "Requiem for a Dream" and "Mulholland Falls." She next appears in Walter Salles' "Dark Water."

Connelly is repped by ICM.