It's mildly amusing at best and filmed on a low-grade digital camera that gives it an amateurish feel despite the presence of several well-known actors. I wonder if you rewatched it, if you would still give it 4 stars. Patrick, your enthusiastic endorsement certainly had me expecting more from it than this film delivered. Anyone interested in an intelligent and witty alternative to big budget summer spectacles need look no farther. In the end Oscar learns a valuable life lesson while providing many laughs along the way.
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The delicate plot is balanced with pathos and never allowed full exploitation. Not only does this movie have a finely written script, on top of that the performances, most notably in the facial expressions of the cast as they react to the situations around them, are dead-on hilarious.
When he announces that the score is 15-40 she says "That's a ratio you seem particularly fond of." When his father and stepmother discover his affair with their forty-year-old friend his father says it sounds very 'The Graduate' to which his stepmother retorts, "Yes, except that Oscar hasn't graduated yet." In another scene Oscar plays tennis with his stepmother. When Oscar's father asks him if he was hanging out last night in the village with all the hippies, Oscar replies there aren't any hippies in the village anymore, only bankers. Tadpole has a grainy and low-budget look but this doesn't keep it from being one of the freshest and tightly paced comedies to come along in quite a while. This relative newcomer is so good that for his performance as Oscar he deserves one. He also has a one-night fling with her best friend (a scene stealing Bebe Neuwirth).Īaron Stanford, although in his early twenties, passes credibly as a high school sophomore. In fact Oscar is in love with his stepmother (Sigourney Weaver). He finds girls his own age to be too inexperienced in life to be attractive. He reads Voltaire and speaks a fluent French. Oscar, the son of a Columbia professor (John Ritter) is sophisticated and cultured (albeit very pretentious) far beyond his fifteen years. Tadpole is a funny, quirky coming of age comedy set on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Bebe Neuwirth and Aaron Stanford in Tadpole.
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