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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5050070008074
Format: PAL
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageFrenchOriginal Language
Number Of Discs: 1
Region Code: 2
Theatrical Release Date: October 11, 1991
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
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 (Wiest), 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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The lead-in to this movie was so spectacular I went to bed late rather than pause play for the next day. Dianne Wiest' crisp performance is above even her typical great work. The film illustrates the alienation of a gifted child in a manner I never could find words for. Even the child's frustration with his own parent -- that was stark-raving visionary. You want to love and detest the child all at the same time. All the elements are there, exactly where and when they need to be.
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This is the very best Jodie Foster effort....I Loved this movie...It's one you can watch over and over.
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I recently watched this movie again - I had seen it about a year after it came out, when I was about 11 years old.
I like the idea behind this movie - while I was (or am) not by any stretch as intelligent as Fred, the main character in this movie, I was more intelligent than many of my peers and thus experienced a lot of the same sorts of conflicts that Fred did. As such, I enjoyed this movie in that I could relate to it.
On the other hand, there were a lot of areas in this ... Read More
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good movie. receioved w/o problem. great film for younger audiences to teach tolerance or to teach first director flaws, though jodie foster is way too critical of her directing debut.
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Little Man Tate is an excellent movie with first class acting and direction (Jodie Foster, Dir.). This is a movie the entire family can enjoy. It will expand your awareness of people around you, and stimulate discussion and appreciation of the gifts each person has, even if there are no geniuses in your family. It is a thoroughly engaging, heart-tugging, and often very funny movie.
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