I just watched a great film called What Maisie Knew . It is a modern day adaptation of the 1897 Henry James' novel about two parents warring over the possession of their little girl Maisie. The parents, one an ageing rock star (Julianne Moore), the other a businessman (Stephen Coogan), spend a lot of resources to satisfy their self-absorbed and selfish desires to have sole custody of Maisie. These desires have little to do with Maisie the person, but rather Maisie the possession they are forced to share. Maisie, played with understated perfection by Onata Aprile, is a self-possessed little girl with a penchant for playing with little animals characters and drawing. At first, it seems like her parents almost constant fights, don't really phase her. However, as you watch the parents sling her between apartments (often in the company of other adults), it begins to sink in that something crucial is at risk. As they approach a house where they w...