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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 40-something 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. Tadpole isn't a great movie--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. Also featuring John Ritter as Oscar's academic father. --Bret Fetzer
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Fun & brief
It's worth a rental. Just over an hour, Bebe is way sexy in this btw. Fun and funny.
Rating: - Amusing Coming-of-Age Pre-"Graduate" Made on the Cheap
Shot in less than two weeks on digital video, this charming, lightweight 2002 comedy indeed has the murky look of a home movie complete with shaky camera shots and orange-tinted graininess. If you can overlook that, you will see some smart performances by an unusually high-profile cast and clever writing by Heather McGowan & Niels Mueller in this coming-of-age concoction from director Gary Winick. The plot focuses on Oscar Grubman, a Voltaire-quoting fifteen year old who overanalyzes the world ... Read More
Rating:  - Short and sweet!
At 77 minutes this film really packs a wallop---hilarious most of the way through, but also poignant and incisive at turns.
I rented this film mainly because I absolutely love both Sigourney Weaver and Bebe Neuwirth but I had low expectations, thinking it was probably going to be another "The Graduate" knockoff with the sort of pretentious deadness of "Rushmore."
Instead I was pleasantly surprised: while "Tadpole" does make a couple of self-conscious and coy allusions ... Read More
Rating: - Something a little different, but no great shakes
This independent film is about a fifteen year old boy who is in love with his 40 year old stepmother Eve, played by Weaver. Neuwirth plays Eve's sexually charged friend Diane, and Ritter is the boy's father. While home on school break, the boy plans to reveal his love to his stepmother. But before he can, he has a one night stand with Diane while drunk. She is very casual about the sex, but he is overwrought with the possibility that Eve might find out. In the best scene of the movie, Diane drops hints ... Read More
Rating: - Digital Video
Tadpole Was Shot On A Sony PD150(PAL) And Is A Great Film To Study If you are a filmmaker like me. because i own a pd150(NTSC) i saw that you can make funny and cinematic films in DV. I Love This Movie For DV Studying.
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