Little Man Tate

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Little Man Tate

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Little Man Tate

Adam Hann-Byrd, David Hyde Pierce, Debi Mazar, Dianne Wiest, George Plimpton, Harry Connick Jr., Jodie Foster

Jodie Foster and Dianne Wiest star in Foster's engaging directorial debut. Single mom Dede Tate is doing her best to raise her brilliant-but-lonely son Fred on a waitress's salary. Jane Grierson (Wies...( read more  read more... )t), something of an expert on being brilliant but lonely, spots Fred's genius and wants to enroll him in her school for the gifted. It's a simple story, but it is very well told. Foster and Wiest both give excellent, sensitive performances, conveying the selfishness in each character's desire to have Fred to herself as well as the pain in not being able to fulfill all his needs on her own. Adam Hann-Byrd gives a remarkable performance as Fred, showing his intelligence without getting precious about it. Foster already shows a steady directing hand, but the best moments are the more whimsical ones in which she reveals the quiet exhilaration of Fred's mental leaps, as when a pool game suddenly becomes a beautiful collision of lines and forces. The DVD version shows the film in its original widescreen format and includes commentary from Foster. --Ali Davis

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  • 76Majikat
    August 25, 2008
    76Majikat
    I find stories of such genius? quite fascinating. Finding the balance between mental stimulation and having a ?normal? childhood for a child prodigy is a struggle.
  • thmtsang
    July 14, 2007
    thmtsang
    Heart warming movie about relations between singel mom and son.
  • dreamfaeries
    August 25, 2006
    dreamfaeries
    Fantastic film.
  • ladyp1964
    June 8, 2006
    ladyp1964
    Being a Jodie Foster fan I guess I am slightly biased but a great film where the child is more intelligent than the mother and neither quite know how to cope with it
  • ileo
    December 28, 2007
    ileo
    Great movie! Love it.
  • jackass001
    November 27, 2009
    jackass001
    one of the good film that i was in childhood and i guess that be my childhood favorite and i keep watching this movie and it wonderful film. jodie foster's director debut and she good director and the good starring role. adam hann-byrd are starring film debut as fred the gifted. ...( read more)other character damon wells is seem little of bit funny and some of annyoing.
  • ElCochran90
    September 17, 2009
    ElCochran90
    It was interesting to see Jodie Foster in her first and only directorial debut, but overall the film was a little bit dull and boring, very slow at times. I really wanted to create empathy and interest towadrs the characters, but I wasn't fully able to do it. Nice and modest effo...( read more)rt, but I wish I could've spent my time in watching something else.

    50/100
  • jam233
    June 20, 2009
    jam233
    A very good story with well developed characters and fine performances, especially from Jodie Foster and Dianne Wiest. Jodie Foster's direction is quite good. A perceptive and moving film. Great pace, believably done.
  • SaxophoneScone
    June 15, 2009
    SaxophoneScone
    saw this but dont remember a thing of it
  • salianom
    May 16, 2009
    salianom
    wanna see it again. how can you control the genius... great directorial debut for jodie foster. why don't you make another movie?
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