# Tadpole (2002)

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**Runtime**: 79 min
**Genres**: Comedy, Drama, Romance
**Directed by**: Gary Winick
**Written by**: Gary Winick, Niels Mueller, Heather McGowan
**Starring**: Aaron Stanford, Sigourney Weaver, John Ritter, Bebe Neuwirth, Robert Iler, Adam LeFevre

> *Everyone says he should date girls his own age. Oscar respectfully disagrees.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Unrequited crushes are always romantic until they’re slightly horrifying. A precocious Manhattan teen fixes on his stepmother instead of countless swans. The film settles for wisecracks without quite earning the cringe.

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