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Child Prodigies
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    Akeelah and the Bee (2006)

    Akeelah (Keke Palmer), an 11-year-old girl living in South Los Angeles, discovers she has a talent...

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    Vitus (2007)

    A piano prodigy (Teo Gheorghiu) rebels against the demands placed on him by pretending to lose his...

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    Little Man Tate (1991)

    A single mother (Jodie Foster) lets her boy-genius son (Adam Hann-Byrd) move in with a rich woman...

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    The Last Mimzy (2007)

    The parents and teacher of a pair of siblings notice the children are developing amazing mental...

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    Finding Forrester (2000)

    While studying at a prep school, an aspiring writer (Rob Brown) befriends a reclusive author (Sean...

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    Bee Season (2005)

    A professor's (Richard Gere) obsession with his daughter's (Flora Cross) gift for spelling becomes...

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    Almost Famous (2000)

    An aspiring teenage rock journalist gets his big break when he follows an up-and-coming band on its...

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    Amadeus (1984)

    Antonio Salieri (F. Murray Abraham), court composer in Vienna, confesses in old age to his sins...

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    The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)

    An errant father (Gene Hackman) tries to reconcile with his eccentric and underachieving family...

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    Shine (1996)

    A domineering father (Geoffrey Rush), then a supportive wife profoundly shape Australian prodigy...

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    Joshua (2007)

    A Wall Street broker (Sam Rockwell) and his wife (Vera Farmiga) fall victim to a series of sinister...

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    Magnolia (1999)

    Coincidence, divine intervention and fate link several people (Jason Robards, Julianne Moore, Tom...

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    Good Will Hunting (1997)

    A therapist (Robin Williams), a mathematician and working-class roughs vie for the soul of a janitor...

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    Rushmore (1998)

    A precocious teenager (Jason Schwartzman) and a jaded tycoon (Bill Murray) become bitter romantic...

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    Wonder Boys (2000)

    Terrified his second novel won't live up to the first and stumbling over his personal life, a writer...

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    My Kid Could Paint That (2007)

    Filmmaker Amir Bar-Lev examines the talents of a 4-year-old girl whose paintings sell for big money...

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    Bruno

    A curmudgeonly woman (Shirley MacLaine) wonders why her genius 8-year-old grandson (Alex D. Linz)...

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    Madame Sousatzka (1988)

    A cultured Russian (Shirley MacLaine) teaches piano to a gifted Indian teenager (Navin Chowdhry) in...

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    Contact (1997)

    A scientist (Jodie Foster) seeks alien beings after receiving mysterious messages from deep space...

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    The 4th Dimension

    A meditative examination into the mind of an introverted genius who obsesses to solve the complexity...

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    Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001)

    A smart child (Debi Derryberry) and his mechanical dog blast into outer space after aliens kidnap...

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    Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)

    A boy (Max Pomeranc) and his parents (Joe Mantegna, Joan Allen) must decide what to do about his...

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    Matilda (1996)

    A little girl (Mara Wilson) develops extraordinary mental abilities, despite neglectful parents...

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    Antonia (2007)

    Friends since childhood, Preta, Barbarah, Mayah and Lena are backup singers in a rap group fronted...

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    A Reflection of Fear (1973)

    In A Reflection of Fear a young woman, Marguerite (Sondra Locke), cloistered in a...

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    Ted (1999)

    A mock documentary about the infamous "Unabomber," Ted Kaczynski, following Ted from his...

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    Where's Willie?

    In this comedy, young Willie alarms the members of his small town when he shows off his...

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    Movies

    The Prodigy (1999)

    On a trip to a college campus, inner-city teen Nathan Jones decides to stay there rather than...

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    Movies

    Spellbound (2003)

    Filmmaker Jeff Blitz follows eight diverse children to the finals of a spelling bee in Washington,...

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    Dangerous Holiday

    Hoping to ape the success of Sol Lesser's Bobby Breen musicals, Republic Pictures fashioned...