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Little Man Tate is a 1991 American drama film directed by Jodie Foster (in her directorial debut) from a screenplay written by Scott Frank. The film stars Adam Hann-Byrd as Fred Tate, a seven-year-old child prodigy who struggles to self-actualize in social and psychological settings that largely fail to accommodate his intelligence .
- The producer of the film actually got so frustrated that they broke a car windshield. Things were getting off to such a rocky start that the producer threw a mobile phone in frustration and broke a windshield.
- The reason that Foster became the director was that the original director left. Creative differences caused the original director to up and leave the set.
- The film Blue Sky was set to be released around the same time as this film but was instead released three years later. Orion Pictures had to make a choice about which film would come out first and they went with Little Man Tate.
- Foster asked David Hyde Pierce to be in the film. He and Foster were both graduates of Yale and she really tried to get him to come board with the film.
Oct 18, 1991 · Foster, as the mother, may not know much about the theory of child geniuses, but she knows her little boy and is fiercely protective of him, and although sparks fly between the two women eventually there is a rapprochement based on their mutual love of Fred.
Little Man Tate: Directed by Jodie Foster. With Jodie Foster, Alex Lee, Adam Hann-Byrd, Michael Shulman. A single mother raises a child prodigy on her own, struggling to give him every opportunity he needs to express his gift.
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Apr 24, 1992 · The story is disarmingly straightforward: Fred Tate (Adam Hann-Byrd) is a mentally gifted 7-year-old boy torn between a working-class mother (Foster) who ignores his brains and a cold,...
Nov 3, 2023 · The movie “Little Man Tate” was directed by Jodie Foster, who also starred in the film as the mother of the child prodigy, Fred Tate. Was the character of Fred Tate inspired by a real-life child prodigy? Yes, the character of Fred Tate was loosely inspired by the experiences of Fred Savage, known for his role in the television series “The ...
The story of the intellectually-gifted eight-year-old Fred Tate, his mother Dede and the director of a program for gifted children, Dr Jane Grierson. It explores the tension between Fred's emotional and intellectual needs and between his mother and Dr Grierson.
