title: Childhood's End (film)
text: # Childhood's End (film)
  
  Childhood's End is a 1996 American romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Jeff Lipsky and featuring Sam Trammell and Reiko Aylesworth. It is Lipsky's feature directorial debut.
  
  ## Plot
  
  Denise is displeased with Greg and has a relationship with another girl. Greg has his first sexual relationship with his friend's mother.
  
  ## Cast
  
  * Cameron Foord as Evelyn Edwards
  * Heather Gottlieb as Rebecca Meyer
  * Colleen Werthmann as Denise Edwards
  * Sam Trammell as Greg Chute
  * Bridget White as Chloe Chute
  * Reiko Aylesworth as Laurie Cannon
  * Philip Coccioletti as Harvey Branch
  * Ellen Tobie as Miranda Chute
  * Maureen Silliman as Mrs. Meyer
  
  ## Release
  
  The film was released at the Montreal World Film Festival on August 25, 1996.
  
  ## Reception
  
  Emanuel Levy of Variety gave the film a mixed review, calling it "mildly engaging but ultimately frustrating."
  
  Stephen Holden of The New York Times gave the film a negative review and wrote that it "has the atmosphere of a tasteful upper-middle-class talk show, crammed with dialogue that is as dispassionate as it is savvy."
  
  