![]() ![]() ![]() Granted, after the liaison is uncovered during a drunken dinner, Eve gives her longtime best friend a stern talking-to. Diane feels so little guilt about her tryst that she boasts of it to her women friends, and encourages one to give Oscar her phone number. Nor do the characters in the movie confront the statutory rape issue head-on, as the moviemakers claim. It's like putting a bantamweight in the ring with a heavyweight. It's simply not a fair contest the odds (and the power) are too skewed in favor of the older partner. Only, no one in a 15-year-old body has the life experience that real 40-year-olds rely on to navigate sexual skirmishes. It wouldn't come so perilously close to advocating romances between kids and adults.ĭirector Gary Winick and the actors have said in published interviews that they were aware of this pitfall, but surmounted it by making Oscar wiser than his years - "a 40-year-old inside a 15-year-old body" - and by confronting the issue head-on. It still would be a coming-of-age tale, and, yes, the affair between a 17-year-old and a woman more than twice his age still would be sleazy. ![]() Making Oscar a mere two years older wouldn't have changed the plot or tone. Part of what is so disturbing about Tadpole is that it seems to be trying to flout the law. ![]()
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