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Little Man Tate

1991

Jodie Foster

Jodie Foster, Adam Hann-Byrd, Dianne Wiest, Harry Connick Jr. ...

6.0

3,290

Drama Seven-year-old genius Fred is desperate to fit in with other kids. Recognizing his talents, his mom (and best friend) Dede enrolls him in a school for gifted children, where Fred befriends a teacher who offers him opportunities his mother cannot. Dede must choose between possibly losing her son or compromising his education.

	Media	Author	Review
		Time Out	"Tackling a difficult project, Foster draws good performances from her cast, but could have done with a better script."
		Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	Little Man Tate” is the kind of movie you enjoy watching; it's about interesting people finding out about themselves (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"
		Angie Errigo Empire	"All those years observing on sets through her own unusual childhood were not wasted on Foster, who handles the child with great sympathy, but also shows assurance with the film as a whole (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"Little Man Tate, the first film directed by Jodie Foster, sounds touching and clever, like a pint-size Rain Man (...) Foster, though, is working with a weirdly half-baked script"
		Variety Staff Variety	"Jodie Foster makes an appealing, if modest, directorial debut"
		Steve Davis Austin Chronicle	"A little but affecting movie about a gifted seven-year-old child caught between the emotional needs of a youngster and the intellectual needs of a genius"

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