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Oct 18, 1991 · Little Man Tate. Jodie Foster says there is an element of autobiography in “Little Man Tate,” the first film she chose to direct. It's the story of a 6-year-old who happens to be a genius, and also happens to be a little boy. Math problems solve themselves in his mind, and he plays piano at a concert level, and when he reads the paper he ...
Little Man Tate is a 1991 American drama film directed by Jodie Foster (in her directorial debut) from a screenplay written by Scott Frank. The film stars Adam Hann-Byrd as Fred Tate, a seven-year-old child prodigy who struggles to self-actualize in social and psychological settings that largely fail to accommodate his intelligence .
The story of the intellectually-gifted eight-year-old Fred Tate, his mother Dede and the director of a program for gifted children, Dr Jane Grierson. It explores the tension between Fred's emotional and intellectual needs and between his mother and Dr Grierson. — Mike McBain <mike@calcite.apana.org.au>.
Nov 1, 1991 · Little Man Tate: Directed by Jodie Foster. With Jodie Foster, Alex Lee, Adam Hann-Byrd, Michael Shulman. A single mother raises a child prodigy on her own, struggling to give him every opportunity he needs to express his gift.
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Fred Tate (Adam Hann-Byrd) is a 7-year-old with a genius IQ. Single mother Dede (Jodie Foster) worries Fred might have an easier time fitting in around other child prodigies. Despite reservations ...
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Description by Wikipedia. Little Man Tate is a 1991 drama film directed by and starring Jodie Foster. The film marked her directorial debut. It tells the story of a seven-year-old child prodigy, Fred Tate (Adam Hann-Byrd), who struggles to self-actualize in a social and psychological construct that largely fails to accommodate his intelligence.
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Apr 24, 1992 · The story is disarmingly straightforward: Fred Tate (Adam Hann-Byrd) is a mentally gifted 7-year-old boy torn between a working-class mother (Foster) who ignores his brains and a cold, uptight ...
