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MPAA Rating: PG-13 Content Advisory: Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Adult Language Movie Release: 2002 DVD Release: 01/21/2003 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV - Closed Captioned Audio Tracks: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 18 mins Studio: Miramax Total Copies: 11 Genres: Comedy, Romance, Sophisticated Comedy, Sex Comedy, Coming-of-Age

Most 15-year-old boys are obsessed with the opposite sex, but this may be the only area in which Oscar Grubman (Aaron Stanford) could be called typical. An honor student at an exclusive prep school, Oscar is confident, keenly intelligent, speaks fluent French, and is well versed in the work of a number of French authors, particularly his favorite, Voltaire. Oscar seems to have gotten his fascination with French culture from his mother, who several years ago divorced his father Stanley (John Ritter), a college professor, and moved to Paris. Stanley has recently remarried, taking an attractive woman in her mid-forties, Eve (Sigourney Weaver), as his new wife. Oscar, however, senses that Eve isn't happy in their marriage; certain he can give Eve the affection (both physical and emotional) that she needs, Oscar begins waging a low-key but ardent campaign to seduce his step-mother over the course of Thanksgiving weekend, despite the fact a number of Oscar's female classmates have made no secret of their attraction to him. Oscar's efforts to bed Eve attract the attention of one of her close friends, Diane (Bebe Neuwirth), a smart and sexy chiropractor who also becomes the not-entirely-unwelcome focus of Oscar's romantic attentions. Shot using digital video equipment, Tadpole was enthusiastically received at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival, where the film's director, Gary Winick, received the Director's Award. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Sigourney Weaver - Eve
Aaron Stanford - Oscar Grubman
John Ritter - Stanley Grubman
Bebe Neuwirth - Diane
Robert Iler - Charlie

The coming-of-age comedy Tadpole comes to DVD from Miramax. The image is presented in a widescreen anamorphic transfer, but keep in mind the film was originally shot on digital video. The audio is offered in Dolby Digital 5.1 with optional closed captioning. Bonus material is limited to a feature-length commentary with director Gary Winick. This disc offers a fairly reasonable presentation for a film that only received a limited theatrical release. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide