“Tadpole” plays like a witty, well-told short story, sly and delightful. It unfolds neatly over Thanksgiving vacation for a precocious 15-year-old, Oscar Grubman (Aaron Stanford), home from prep ...

Bebe Neuwirth gives a deliciously insinuating performance as the older woman, and Sigourney Weaver brings a stately beauty to the dream step-mother, but “Tadpole” suffers from low-budget production ...

Tadpole, now in its seventh week at area movie theaters, is a charming, unpretentious comedy about love, longing and statutory rape. The film is set in New York over a particularly turbulent ...

2002-01-19 04:00:00 PDT Park City, Utah-- "When you've got a good script and great actors, you can make your movie on toilet paper and it won't matter," says filmmaker Gary Winick. Winick can afford ...

NEW YORK — When Gary Winick took Sigourney Weaver to lunch at the Payard Bistro here, he simply wanted her to star in his new film, “Tadpole.” But he did even better. The actress not only agreed to ...

Movies developed from the inside out can reawaken memories as private and intimate as those usually jogged by poetry or fiction. That happened when I was watching Tadpole. Gary Winick’s movie stars ...

PARK CITY — The dealmaking at Sundance has heated up, with Miramax closing a $5 million deal for audience fave “Tadpole” and Lions Gate shelling out just under $1 million for worldwide rights to ...