The child prodigy Tate
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The child prodigy Tate |
| Original title | Little Man Tate |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1991 |
| length | 99 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jodie Foster |
| script | Scott Frank |
| production | Peggy Rajski , Scott Rudin |
| music | Mark Isham |
| camera | Mike Southon |
| cut | Lynzee Klingman |
| occupation | |
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The child prodigy Tate (Original title: Little Man Tate ) is an American film from 1991. It is the first feature film in which Jodie Foster was involved as a director .
Some of the filming took place on the Miami University campus in Oxford , Ohio .
action
Dede Tate ( Jodie Foster ) is a waitress and single mother. When her boy is just starting to speak, he grabs a plate and says “suitcase!”. The mother shakes her head and says: “No, stupid, this is a plate!” But when she looks at the back of the plate, her gaze freezes: the manufacturer is called “suitcase”. Her son Fred has therefore been considered very talented from an early age, but neither in school nor in the home environment can his intellect be promoted accordingly. After initial hesitation, Dede hands her son over to the care of the scientist Jane Grierson ( Dianne Wiest ), who organized a support program for gifted children. Fred feels abandoned by his mother, especially in the strictly organized world of Jane Grierson. On a TV show, he says that his mother died.
At times Dede sees Jane Grierson as a competitor for her son's attention, but later she realizes that only both women together can give Fred an optimal upbringing.
Reviews
“Jodie Foster, who was kind of a child prodigy herself, made a very human film. - "A small miracle: gentle, touching" "
The lexicon of international films wrote that the film “grippingly and very sensitively deals with the subject of childlike loneliness” .
epd Film 2/1992 wrote that “a quiet, modest film (...) came out, as far away from the pomp and pomp of Hollywood as Foster has always been”.
literature
- Buddy Foster, "Jodie Foster: A Biography" , ECON Verlag, Düsseldorf and Munich 1997, ISBN 3-430-12882-X , pp. 245-250
Web links
- Little Man Tate in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The child prodigy Tate in the German dubbing file
supporting documents
- ↑ The child prodigy Tate - film review on TV Spielfilm's website , accessed on June 10, 2014
- ↑ Tate the child prodigy. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 21, 2016 .