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Little Man Tate
Little Man Tate is a 1991 American family drama film directed by Jodie Foster 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 contexts that are largely incompatible with his mind. his intelligence. The film also has the participation of Foster, Dianne Wiest, Harry Connick Jr...
Dede Tate is a young working-class woman of average intelligence raising her seven-year-old son, Fred. Fred shows every sign of being a genius. Fred's reading and math abilities were respectable, and he played the piano "at a competitive level," but his intellect set him apart from his public school classmates. Fred's abilities caught the attention of Jane Grierson, a former musical prodigy and now a psychologist who runs a school for gifted children. She asks Dede's permission to admit Fred to the school to develop his mind in ways that a public school cannot. Dede is reluctant, wanting Fred to have a more normal life, but when no friends come to Fred's seventh birthday party, Dede agrees.