Little Man Tate

• Dianne Wiest: Jane Grierson
• Harry Connick, Jr.: Eddie
• Michael Shulman: Matt Montini

Little Man Tate ( Original title: Little Man Tate ) is an American film released in 1991 It is the first feature film in which Jodie Foster was involved as a director..

Part of the filming took place in Oxford, Ohio, on the campus of Miami University.

Action

Dede Tate ( Jodie Foster ) is a waitress and single mother. When her boy is just beginning to talk, he grabs a plate and says "suitcase ". The mother shakes her head and says: "No, silly, this is a plates! " But when she looks at the back of the plate, solidifies her look: The manufacturer is called " suitcase ". Therefore, your son Fred applies since early childhood as very talented, but neither in school nor in the home environment may be intellect be promoted. After initial hesitation, Dede passes her son in the care of the scientist Jane Grierson ( Dianne Wiest ), organized a program for gifted children. Fred feels abandoned by the mother, especially in the strictly organized world of Jane Grierson. In a television program, he says that his mother had died.

Dede considered temporarily Jane Grierson as a rival for the attention of her son, but later she realizes that only women can both Fred provide an optimal education together.

Reviews

The lexicon of international film wrote that the film set to " gripping and very sensitive with childlike loneliness apart ".

Epd Film 2/1992 wrote that it was " a quiet, modest film ( ... ) come out so far from the pomp and pageantry of Hollywood, as the Foster it has always been ."