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I was suprised to find there wasn't a category for films about or with child prodigies. Hmm. In any case, it's been a while since I saw this flick (on TV), but I seem to recall that a major theme was the difficulty of balancing the mental needs of a child prodigy with his or her emotional needs as a child, and the lonliness of genius. I have no idea how to work this in though, especially without it seeming ORish, since I have not looked the film up anywhere else and thus have no idea if it's stated anywhere. Hmm. Runa27 04:25, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
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- OR is one of the reasons I'm turned off from making unnecessarily accurate but personal changes to
- Wiki articles. However for this situation I think you can get away with linking several critics'
- reactions and opinions. That should start you off. 17:18, 19 December 2006 (UTC)Piepants
I think this article has a lot of potential. It's an important film due to the fact that it was Foster's first time directing. I'm going to work on it some more, and I do think that the themes, while open to debate (like many movies!), are definable in an encyclopedic context. Jake 04:43, 15 April 2007 (UTC)