Tadpole (film)

Tadpole is an American comedy directed by Gary Winick. It was produced in 2002 with Aaron Stanford and Sigourney Weaver.

Action

The 15 -year-old Oscar Grubman is considered sensitive and intelligent, speaks French, and likes to read Voltaire visited the Chauncey Academy. However, he falls in love with his stepmother, Eve ( Sigourney Weaver), who has recently married his father. When he returns on the vacation for Thanksgiving into the home apartment, he decides to Eve to confess his love. However, after a dinner with friends and colleagues of his father, he shall bring Daphne table, the daughter of a colleague's home, she sits in a taxi and gets drunk in a bar on the way home he is drunk by Diane Lodder, the best friend of his stepmother, encountered that takes him home. There, there is a one- night stand. Oscar is afraid that his father and Diane Eve tells the story of the affair, what happens at a dinner. Oscar clarifies the situation, as he is after a tennis game with Eve alone, and also indicated his love to her. They kiss, then goes to bed Eve. After his father and Eve bring Oscar to train the next day, they say goodbye and Oscar flirts with a classmate of the same age.

Reviews

  • The lexicon of international film wrote that the film spot, humorous ' the social customs in question. He was the comedy The Graduate similar.
  • Desson Thomson wrote in The Washington Post, the film belongs to, shrewdest ' films of the year.

Awards

  • Gary Winick won the 2002 Best Director Award at the Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for another award.
  • Bebe Neuwirth won the 2002 Seattle Film Critics Award and was nominated in 2003 for the Chlotrudis Award.
  • Aaron Stanford and Bebe Neuwirth were nominated in 2003 for a Golden Satellite Award.

Comments

The film was shot in New York City within 14 days. Its production cost about $ 150,000. When he was introduced on 11 January 2002 at the Sundance Film Festival, the poor technical quality was criticized. The Germany premiere there on 25 September 2003 at Filmfest Hamburg.

The film earned nearly $ 2.9 million at the U.S. box office.

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