Little Man Tate

Watching this didn't make my son any smarter. Jodie Foster has failed as the father I should have been.

#90s(e)#, story, Jodie F.

If Foster's performance overdoes the street, it would seem less reinless rookie indulgence than understandably naïve fidelity to the script's thematic structure of binaries, balance for Weist's cold kid-clueless shrink. She, Foster, co-rewrote after the film was abandoned as a more PROBLEM CHILDish comedy for Joe Dante (!) and it's almost more impressive for what it avoids: big act 2 competition is all character, no competition; hunky new-to-film Connick isn't capitalized on as a love interest.

Forceful, nuanced work by everyone involved with this criminally underrated directorial debut from Jodie Foster.

Score based on distant memory.

An interesting dilemma... Kids should be kids, but some kids are different. I liked it but on the same time I was really bored. *Okay

God, how I loathe children. I mean, movies about children.

Good film.

good movie

Perfunctory, and not quite finished, but not without redeeming qualities.

Little Man Tate is a decent look at the personal story of what it might be like to be a child genius, but doesn't go deep enough.

Foster attests to the pay-off of a seasoned actor moving to the director's seat. One way this is seen is in the humble human scale of the story, and another way is in how we forget that we're watching acting, especially from the most challenging source of that achievement, the little boy playing the pint-sized poet, pianist, artist, and math wizard whose ulcers attest to his anxieties about the environmental destruction of the planet and the fact that he has no friends.

It could've been a memorable movie but Foster's debut as director was premature.

Decent, but really, REALLY schmaltzy. If you like smart kids, watch Searching for Bobby Fischer instead.

Adam Hann-Byrd gives an outstanding performance in this film, Jodie Foster is also good and she does a good job with the direction of this movie. The script is straight forward but it works. Overall I would recommend this film.