Little Man Tate - Trailer

Year Published: 1991

Country of Origin: United States

Description: 16mm Film - Little Man Tate - Trailer - USA 1991 Directed by: Jodie Foster Written by: Scott Frank Cinematography by: Mike Southon Music by: Mark Isham Starring: Jodie Foster, Dianne Wiest, Adam Hann-Byrd, Harry Connick Jr., David Hyde Pierce, Debi Mazar, P.J. Ochlan, Alex Lee, Michael Shulman, Nathan Lee, Celia Weston, Danitra Vance, Richard Fredette, George Plimpton, Jennifer Trier, John Bell, Ishe Costa, Chucky Ocampo, Mark Lienhart, Richard Hanson, Mar Ya Zuke, Lauren Ashley Stacey, Josh Mostel, Michael Mantell, Erica Staton, Michael Keavy, Carolyn Lawrence, George Kaufman, Gordon Greene, Barry J. Williams, Alexandra Auder, Sam Womelsdorf, Ellen McElduff, Adam Midkiff, Sheadrick Richards, Elizabeth Frietsch, Bob Balaban, Michael Newman Dede Tate is a young working-class woman of average intelligence raising her seven-year-old son, Fred. Fred shows every indication of being a genius. Fred's reading and mathematics abilities are remarkable, and he plays the piano "at competition level," but his intellect has isolated him from his public school classmates. Fred's abilities come to the attention of Jane Grierson, a former music prodigy and now a psychologist running a school for gifted children. She asks permission from Dede to admit Fred to the school, in order to develop his intellectual gifts in ways that a public school cannot. Dede is reluctant, preferring that Fred have a more normal upbringing, but when no friends come to Fred's seventh birthday party, Dede consents. Fred joins other brilliant young people, and participates in Jane's Odyssey of the Mind event for part of the spring. There he meets one of his heroes, who is one of Jane's prized pupils, the brilliant but slightly bizarre "Mathemagician" Damon Wells, a whiz at math who wears a black cape wherever he goes. After Fred unintentionally upstages Damon at one of the competitions at Odyssey of the Mind, Damon is upset with Fred. Damon however warms up to Fred when out horseback riding on Jane's ranch, and is Fred's first insight to a world outside academia. Damon tells him, "it's not the size of a man's IQ that matters; it's how he uses it". Jane attempts to become more nurturing, but is unable to relate to Fred as anything other than a case study. Fred is later enrolled at a university, where he studies quantum physics while his mother, aunt and cousins travel to Florida for the summer. An adult student named Eddie accidentally hits Fred with a globe when goofing around. To make it up to Fred, Eddie takes him out for a ride on his moped and shows him things such as how to shoot pool; it is good for Fred to spend time with someone who is not a genius. However, when Fred walks into Eddie's room while Eddie is in bed with a coed, Fred runs out and Eddie chases after him. Eddie explains that he cannot be a babysitter for Fred; although he enjoys Fred's company, Fred needs to find friends closer to his own age. The return to isolation takes its toll on Fred, as he suffers from nightmares in which he is treated as a freak and an outsider. Jane is asked to bring Fred onto a TV panel discussion show on the topic of gifted children. Fred attends but breaks down. He claims his mother is dead, and recites a childish poem (a word-for-word repetition of a poem by one of his former grade school classmates) before taking off his microphone and walking out of the studio. Dede witnesses some of this as it is being broadcast, and flies back to New York. Jane is unable to find Fred, but Dede discovers him back at their apartment, and embraces him. One year later, Fred has adjusted to the pressures of being a child genius, particularly after an even younger student is admitted to Jane's school. Dede hosts a well-attended birthday party for Fred, reconciling Fred's emotional development with his intellect. Der siebenjährige Fred Tate (Adam Hann-Byrd) ist überdurchschnittlich begabt. Aufgrund seiner Frühreife kann er unter Gleichaltrigen keine Freundschaften aufbauen. Eine Kinderpsychologin will den kleinen Jungen seinen Fähigkeiten entsprechend fördern. Über die dafür geeigneten Maßnahmen kommt es zu harten Auseinandersetzungen. Wird es einen Kompromiss geben?

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