Il mio piccolo genio

Jodie Foster directs this portrait of giftedness. A single mother struggles to raise her child prodigy, balancing his intellectual needs with his emotional development. It's a movie that perhaps mistakes precocity for depth.

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Jodie Foster directed Il mio piccolo genio in 1991. See Jodie Foster's full filmography, where to start with Jodie Foster, or where to go after you've seen everything by Jodie Foster.

Il mio piccolo genio was released in 1991 (EN original-language production), with a runtime of 99 minutes.