Synopsis
Beautiful, sophisticated women are all over Oscar Grubman. He is sensitive and compassionate, speaks French fluently, is passionate about Voltaire, and thinks the feature that tells the most about a woman is her hands. On the train home from Chauncey Academy for the Thanksgiving weekend, Oscar confides in his best friend that he has plans for this vacation--he will win the heart of his true love. But there is one major problem--Oscar's true love is his stepmother Eve.
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Cast
- Aaron StanfordOscar Grubman
- Sigourney WeaverEve Grubman
- John RitterStanley Grubman
- Bebe NeuwirthDiane Lodder
- Robert IlerCharlie
- Adam LeFevrePhil
- Peter AppelJimmy - Doorman
- Alicia Van CouveringDaphne Tisch
- Kate MaraMiranda Spear
- Ron RifkinProfessor Tisch
Recommendations
- 100
Washington Post
It's a funny, fearless, poignant, spectacular performance. Come to think of it, those words could well apply to the entirety of Tadpole. - 90
Variety
A smart sex comedy that successfully swims upstream to spawn and score. - 88
USA Today
An irreverent and witty comedy in which the events aren't predictable but are well paced. - 75
San Francisco Chronicle
Witty, adult treatment of an offbeat subject: a pubescent boy's infatuation with an older woman. - 70
Film Threat
Not a film that will change your life. It instead proves that shooting your movie with cheap technology doesn't mean it can't be fun or entertaining. In the end, that's enough. - 70
The A.V. Club
Though sloppily structured and sometimes dangerously flimsy (not to mention truncated at a mere 78 minutes), Tadpole has an unforced charm that compensates for the absence of more traditional cinematic virtues. - 50
Boston Globe
Written in wisps and watery double-entendres by Heather McGowan and Niels Mueller, and the movie is so benign that its proceedings are beside the point. - 50
Chicago Sun-Times
I praised "Lovely & Amazing," which also features a romance between an adult woman and a teenage boy. But "Lovely & Amazing" is about events that happen in a plausible world (the adult is actually arrested). Tadpole wants only to be a low-rent "Graduate" clone.
