Popcorn and Inspiration: ‘Little Man Tate’: Knowing Enough Is Something, Understanding What Is Right Is Everything Else

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PG | 1h 39 min | Drama, Family | 1991

A sense of magic tinges most prodigies, yet Jodie Foster’s movie about a prodigy dwells on the mundane instead. How do parents, siblings, and friends relate to such children? How do such children relate to others? If they’re always made to feel abnormal, can they ever feel normal? If they behave adultlike at a tender age, can they ever enjoy childhood as the rest of us do?

Rudolph Lambert Fernandez
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Rudolph Lambert Fernandez is an independent writer who writes on pop culture.
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