Jody Foster not only stars in "Little Man Tate," she also directed it and managed to create a brilliant film from a rather mundane premise: ordinary single mom trying to understand how to raise her brilliant, sensitive son. Foster is so good in the role that one imagines she must have drawn on her own memories of being a child actor thrown into an adult world. She wants her son to have a normal childhood but gradually realizes that he is a genius and begins to understand the special things life has to offer to such a gifted child. The film is as brilliant as the child it portrays.
Review of Little Man Tate
