"Tadpole" was picked up at Sundance by Miramax, who couldn't market this thing to anyone but the most rabid Sigourney Weaver fans. Aaron Stanford plays Oscar, who is described for us as a "40-year-old living inside a 15-year-old's body" he quotes Voltaire, reveals a fetish for great hands, and harbors a crush on his stepmother, a medical scientist who apparently doesn't notice the moony-eyed look on her stepson's adoring face. Title (Brazil): "Um Jovem Sedutor" ("A Young Seducer")īebe Neuwirth's performance as a 40-ish chiropractor in New York City who has an affair with a high school sophomore holds the only interest in this ridiculous, inexplicably celebrated independent film shot on digital video. In summary, "Tadpole" is a forgettable entertainment, recommended for killing time. The best parts of the story belong to Bebe Neuwirth, who is amazingly funny and makes the film worth, together with its soundtrack.
Robinson" nor an example of a faithful wife. Sigourney Weaver is lost, in a character who is neither "Mrs. John Ritter is a reasonable actor, but looks very snob in the role of a history professor of Columbia. Further, he is not charismatic as his character would require. Therefore, he was completely miscast, being twenty-five years old and pretending he is fifteen. When the viewer finishes watching the film, he will certainly ask: -What is the point? Further, in accordance with the information in IMDb, Aaron Stanford was born in 1977. "Tadpole" is a reasonable comedy only, having some funny situations, but never reaching a target, having a terrible conclusion. However, her forty and something years best friend Diane Lodder (Bebe Neuwirth) has an affair with Oscar, and he becomes quite confused with this new situation. Oscar is very precocious, cultured, polyglot and loves poetry, and he finds the girls of his age very silly, feeling a great attraction for older women. His mother is French and lives in France. Moreover, the fuzzy digital video film employed here really doesn't suit the tone or material, meaning that Tadpole often looks like a rough cut.Oscar Grubman (Aaron Stanford) is a fifteen years old French student, who lives in USA, and spends the Thanksgiving with his father Stanley Grubman (John Ritter) and his stepmother Eve (Sigourney Weaver) in their apartment in New York. Sadly the film runs out of ideas in the final minutes, and the conclusion is a trite one, something that you'd associate with bigger budgeted, more conventional fare. The narrative may be as slight as the running time, but Tadpole whistles along in a good humoured fashion, with some amusing moments and a slew of good performances. Also like Igby Goes Down, Tadpole is constructed like a play or a short story - it's static in terms of locations yet alive with wit and humour. Like another recent release, Igby Goes Down, Tadpole owes a hefty debt of gratitude to JD Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye. His constant rejection of females his own age inadvertently leads him into the arms of his Eve's best friend, the caustic but beautiful Diana (Neuwirth), who regards Oscar with equal measures of amusement and lust. A deeply precocious sort, Oscar has fallen head-over-heels in love with his new(ish) step mother Eve (Weaver) and plans to woo her away from his father, or at least have an affair with her.
Breezy low budget Graduate-esque comedy which follows Oscar Grubman (Standford), an articulate, urbane 16-year-old boy returning to his father's (Ritter) Manhattan apartment for the Thanksgiving break.