Orbiting around the idea of how technology facilitates the increasing isolation of the very people it claims to connect, Men, Women & Children hones in on a selection of suburbanites in present day Texas, including a jaded married couple played by Adam Sandler and Rosemarie DeWitt, a pair of disaffected
teenagers played by Ansel Elgort and Kaitlyn Dever, and two contrasting mothers, one of whom (Jennifer Garner) tirelessly monitors and restricts her daughter's internet and phone use, while the other (Judy Greer) prostitutes her
nubile daughter's image on a subscription website.
That's partly because the film stars actual
teenagers, most of them wearing fashions that probably came right off the rack at Kmart, and not only do they make Sleepaway Camp largely unique in the annals of summer - camp horror (which normally focuses exclusively on the older, more
nubile camp counsellors), they give the proceedings an almost Lord of the Flies quality that sells the concept.