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Tadpole [DVD] [2003]
 
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Tadpole [DVD] [2003]

DVD ~ Sigourney Weaver
3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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  • Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Aaron Stanford, Kate Mara, Robert Iler, Peter Appel
  • Directors: Gary Winick
  • Writers: Gary Winick, Heather McGowan, Niels Mueller
  • Producers: Alexis Alexanian, Caroline Kaplan, Celeste Peterka, Dolly Hall
  • Format: PAL
  • Language English, French
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm
  • DVD Release Date: 1 Aug 2005
  • Run Time: 75 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0000TZ7I6
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 98,489 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Tadpole is a clever tale of a young man infatuated with an older woman, featuring a brilliant comic performance by the wonderful Bebe Neuwirth. Tadpole is the childhood nickname of Oscar (Aaron Stanford), a precocious 15-year-old who disdains girls his own age and nurses an infatuation for his fortysomething stepmother, Eve (Sigourney Weaver). But while home from school for Thanksgiving, Oscar gets drunk and falls in bed with Eve's best friend, Diane (Neuwirth), leading to a series of painfully funny scenes in which Oscar fears revelation while trying, desperately, to woo Eve. The strong script is undercut by flat, unimaginative direction, but every scene with Neuwirth flares into high comedy. She doesn't even have to speak; a sardonic glance from Diane sends Oscar spinning into panic, and Neuwirth handles the part with delicious feline malice. It also features John Ritter as Oscar's academic father. --Bret Fetzer

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Sigourney Weaver (Heartbreakers, Galaxy Quest), John Ritter (TV’s Felicity, Three’s Company) and Bebe Neuwirth (Liberty Heights, The Faculty) lead an outstanding cast in a seductively irreverent coming-of-age comedy that critics absolutely adored! Oscar Grubman (Aaron Stanford - X2) is no ordinary 15-year-old. He’s suave, smart, cultured and has one thing on his mind: older women! But be careful what you wish for, Oscar! When a sexy 40-something friend of the family (Neuwirth) actually takes Oscar up on his infatuation, he suddenly finds himself in way over his head! Winner of the Director’s Award and nominated for the Grand Jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival – you won’t believe how the sophisticated fun takes off … as the romantic complications pile up!

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars enjoyable coming of age movie, 26 Feb 2004
By Stephen Newton "www.stephennewton.com" (Manchester, England) - See all my reviews
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At one point threatening to be a cinematic Catcher in the Rye, Tadpole was an enjoyable coming of age movie. The boy’s infatuation with his stepmother is a symptom of his wider feeling that he’s more mature than his peers; a feeling that eventually gives way to a coming of age in reverse.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Preppie scores with older chicks, 21 May 2004
By Joseph Haschka (Glendale, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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I attended a college prep school, but don't remember anything like what happens in the comedy TADPOLE. Perhaps I should have read more of the French philosophers.

Aaron Stanford has his debut acting role as Oscar Grubman, a 15-year-old boarding school student returning to his father's NYC home for the Thanksgiving holiday. Oscar's (divorced) mother is French, so he speaks the language and is heavily into French literature, especially Voltaire. Oscar isn't interested in girls his own age, and a peer remarks that Oscar is a 40-year-old trapped in a teenager's body. Oscar carries a heavy weight - he's got a serious crush on his 40-something stepmom, Eve (Sigourney Weaver). Though Oscar has eyes only for Mrs. Grubman, his mental maturity combined with boyish enthusiasm attracts Eve's female friends, who press their phone numbers on him - and more. Eve's best friend, Diane (Bebe Neuwirth), seduces him one evening after finding him wandering drunk and lovesick (for Eve) on the street. The morning after, Oscar is horrified.

This was Stanford's first role after graduating from Rutgers University where he studied theater. Simply put, he's terrific. Neuwirth is positively delicious as the mischievous Diane who toys with the lad as a cat with a mouse. (Any teenage boy should be so lucky!) There's one scene after Oscar's one-night tryst where Oscar, Diane, Eve, and Oscar's father Stanley (John Ritter) go out to a restaurant dinner, and which had the audience almost rolling in the aisles. It alone was worth the price of admission.

Sigourney Weaver is radiant as the unsuspecting Eve, and one can understand why Oscar is attracted. I know I was. John Ritter does well enough as Oscar's college professor father, though my opinion is undoubtedly unfairly skewed towards the negative by the fact that I've never gotten over the actor's relentlessly obnoxious character in television's THREE'S COMPANY.

TADPOLE is short at 77 minutes, and I was left slightly dissatisfied as the film rolled into the credits after what I thought was a too abrupt ending. Perhaps it's because the Diane/Oscar relationship was so richly humorous and fraught with awkward possibilities, and I wanted more of it. However, that said, this is a delightful worth seeing.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Just absolutely awful, 4 Nov 2004
Boring, tedious and pretentious, I could not watch more than half an hour of this film. It sickens me to my stomach to see good performances from good actors to be wasted in rubbish like this. To make matters worse this dull stinker of a movie was marketed as a comedy when there wasn't a funny moment within miles!!! Do yourself a favour, don't listen to the majority of the critics and stay far away from it.
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