Alas, when the young man wakes up the next morning he doesn't quite appreciate his good luck. People will walk out of 'Tadpole' talking especially about Neuwirth, who is mischievous and funny as a sexy chiropractor who starts off giving Oscar a back rub and ends up taking him to bed. It's not the farthest thing from her friend Diane's mind, however. The idea of his being attracted is the farthest thing from her mind. When Oscar (Aaron Stanford) speaks to Eve, we sense the charge in the air and notice his strained effort to be erudite and clever, but we can also tell that Eve would not pick up on it. No surprise then that his longing leads him in the direction of his stepmother, who is kind and accomplished, values learning and appreciates Oscar's mind.Д«etween moments of ribald comedy, 'Tadpole' demonstrates the filmmakers' sensitive understanding of the subtleties of human emotion.

He doesn't want to give up valuing books and great music to conform to the teen norm. Oscar wants to go from the safety of childhood to the coziness of middle age without having to muddle through the chaos of his teen years. The Eve fixation, then, can be seen not as merely some random odd attraction but as a manifestation of an unexpressed anxiety. Navigating 15, 16 and 17 - that's the hard part. As a friend tells him, 'You're like a 40-year-old trapped in a 15-year-old's body.' Acting 40 is easy. But the movie also has value for the way it explores a particular kind of boy's apprehension at the gates of adolescence. 'Tadpole' will delight audiences for its comedy - especially in the scenes between Oscar and Eve's randy best friend, Diane (Bebe Neuwirth). On a train going home to Manhattan for Thanksgiving, he gives the cold shoulder to one of his female classmates, telling a friend that he doesn't like the girl's hands. Something of an aesthete, Oscar speaks French, reads Voltaire and just isn't interested in girls his own age. Young Oscar, known as 'Tadpole' when he was a little boy, is obsessed with his stepmother, Eve (Sigourney Weaver). Shot on digital video, it looks grainy and fuzzy at times, but it compensates for its technical flaws with a witty, adult treatment of an offbeat subject: a pubescent boy's infatuation with an older woman.ДЄnd not just any older woman. 'Tadpole' was a big hit at this year's Sundance Film Festival, and it's easy to see why.

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