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Synopsis: Beautiful, sophisticated women are all over Oscar Grubman. He is sensitive and compassionate, speaks French fluently, is passionate about Voltaire, and thinks the feature that tells the most about a woman is her hands. On the train home from Chauncey Academy for the Thanksgiving weekend, Oscar confides in his best friend that he has plans for this vacation--he will win the heart of his true love. But there is one major problem--Oscar's true love is his stepmother Eve. Oscar is certain that he could be a better mate to Eve than his work-obsessed father. He fails to win Eve's heart and is consequently dejected. Oscar's path to his true love is further crossed by Diane, Eve's best friend who, one night while wearing Eve's borrowed perfumed scarf, offers him temporary comfort in an unconventional tryst. For Diane, Oscar fills a void in her life. For Oscar, Diane is somewhat of a distraction, as his continued pursuit of Eve leads to an unexpected resolution.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director(s): Gary Winick

Actors: Aaron Stanford, Kate Mara, Robert Iler, Peter Appel

Production: Miramax Films

3 wins & 4 nominations.


IMDB:: 6.2
Metacritic:: 71
Rotten Tomatoes:: 78%

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: PG-13
Year:: 2000
: 78 min
: $2,882,062
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They're quite aware
of what they're going through
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
Turn and face the strain
Ch-ch-changes
Don't tell them
to grow up and out of it
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
Turn and face the strain
Ch-ch-changes
Where's your shame?
You've left us
up to our necks in it
Time may change me
But you can't trace time
Strange fascination.
Fascinating me
Aw. Changes are taking
the pace I'm going through
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
Turn and face the strain
Ch-ch-changes
Ooh. Iook out
you rock 'n rollers
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
Turn and face the strain
Ch-ch-changes
Pretty soon now you're
gonna get a little older
Time may change me
But I can't trace time
I said that
time may change me
But I can't trace time

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Heather McGowan

Heather McGowan is an American writer. She is the author of the novels Schooling and Duchess of Nothing. Schooling was named a Best Book of the Year by Newsweek, The Detroit Free Press and The Hartford Courant. Schooling was included in the volume 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, edited by Peter Boxall. McGowan received an MFA from Brown University. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Heather McGowan’s original screenplay Tadpole was turned into a film directed by Gary Winick and starring Sigourney Weaver. The film won Best Director at Sundance in 2002 and was subsequently released by Miramax. In 2006 McGowan and British visual artist Liam Gillick collaborated to produce the limited edition book, Le Montrachet. McGowan won the Rome Prize in Literature in 2011. She was awarded the 2012 Mary Ellen von der Heyden Berlin Prize Fellowship for Fiction at the American Academy in Berlin. more…

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