Littie Man Tate

Little Man Tate *** (Orion) Rated Mature (at the Park & Til
Granville, Oakridge and Station Square cinemas)

all those fun learning activities like Cat in the Hat.

R EMEMBER BEING seven years old? Sure you do —

How about advanced quantum physics? If you were
an all-around renaissance kid like second-grader Fred Tate
{Adam Hann-Byrd), you can skip Dr. Seuss.

Ah, but the gift of genius carries
a stiff price tag. Every headline
about war or the evironment ag-
gravates his ulcer.

He has nightmares about waking
up in a Van Gogh painting or sud-
denly aging from a defective gland
secretion. And only Fred and his
mother Dede (Jodie Foster) witness
the dismal attendance at his birth-
day party.

As a single parent, she tries hard,
making up for the meagre finances
with lavish attention. Still, as lov-
ing as she is, Mom can’t provide
the mental stimulation he craves.

That’s where Dr. Jane Grierson
(Dianne Wiest) and her institute
for child prodigies comes in. And
where Dede reluctantly steps out.

Fortunately for us that allows
Jodie Foster to slip behind the
camera and demonstrate her con-
siderable directing skills. It’s a
Hollywood axiom that you never
work with kids, but the natural
performance she coaxes out of
newcomer Hann-Byrd is richly
textured and emotionally honest.

Two of the most interesting
characters make brief appear-

Subjects have
expectations

From page 22

and Koster had to see the whole
show by candlelight,’’ laughs Smi-
ly.

Dietrich complained that Smily
had painted her nose too short.

“Marlene said she knew her
nose really well because she had
been painting her face (with
makeup) all her life.’’

That's the challenge about por-
trait-painting: capturing a person’s
essence only to have your subject
complain it doesn’t look like them.
There are far greater expectations
than, say, landscape painting —
haystacks, after all, don’t quibble.

And that’s partly why Smily says
she’s going to be much more
selective about future commis-
sions.

“It’s very stressful because,for
one thing, | have to keep talking to
my subjects in order to keep tham
looking alive. If you have someone
just sitting there for an extended
period of time, their face falls and
it doesn’t look like them anymore.

“At this stage of my life | want
to get what I’m worth. I'd rather
be poorer than take work | don’t
really want to do.”

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Tim Bell
FILM REVIEW

ances. A caustic, caped math whiz
(P.J. Ochlan) whose genius with
numbers exceeds his social skills,
is literally knocked out of the
movie, while singer Harry Conick

ford,

jr. displays an easy charm taking
freshman Fred under his wing at
college before beating a hasty
retreat.

Writer Scott Frank has a solid
knack for creating characters that
breathe.

But the real star is Jodie Foster.
She not only executes the difficult
task of directing herself, but she
tackles a fascinating subject with
brisk economy, humor and sensi-
tivity, Little Man Tate is a terrific
debut.

Dracula: A Cinematic Scrap-
book/Frankenstein: A Cinematic
Scrapbook **% (Rhino Video)
Unrated

just in time for Halloween, here
are two ghoulish offerings compil-
ed frorn old coming attractions,
with commentary on the movie
history of the titans or horrordom.
Both feature the classic black and
white Universal trailers and the
color Hammer remakes with a few
oddities thrown in for good
measure, It’s fow budget fun for
the fans.

Wednesday, October 30, 1991 - North Shore News - 23

NEWCOMER Adam Hann-Byrd stars with Jodie Foster in her
directorial debut ‘‘Little Man Tate."’

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