Call me old-fashioned on most things and I'm offended. However, there are some things I consider taboo and sexual relationships between adults pushing 40 with teens not old enough to get a driver's license is one of them. This film is not abusive like the allegations regarding R. Kelley or the pedophilia in last year's L.I.E, but it's also something that I find hard for any caring parent to approve of.

Oscar (Aaron Stanford) is a high school sophomore with a 40-year-old soul trapped in a 15-year-old body. He speaks fluent French, quotes Voltaire and sees no value in girls his own age, like schoolmate Miranda (Kate Mara) or neighbor Daphne (Alicia Van). Oscar's eye is on his stepmother Eve (Sigourney Weaver), who he plans on declaring his amorous intentions to during his visit from boarding school over the Thanksgiving holiday. His father Stanley (John Ritter) is an open minded soul, whose response to Oscar not coming home one night after leaving to walk Daphne home is that it's OK because he had sex with Miranda and not a prostitute. Boys will be boys but when you are 15 you are a boy and not a man so neither behavior would be acceptable to me-sorry for the tangent, back to the plot of the movie.

On the way home, after putting Daphne in a cab, Oscar meets Eve's best friend Diane (Bebe Neuwirth). They go to her house, one thing leads to another and he wakes up in her bed. Oscar still desires Eve and wants Diane to keep their one night stand a secret from his parents (no kidding Sherlock!). At a restaurant where his dad is treating the family - and Diane - to dinner, Oscar meets Miranda and her parents. The threat of the secret coming out increases when loose lips Diane first passes on the wine and then starts to swallow it in gulps.

There are plenty of cute and funny moments in the film, which I enjoyed. I tried to think back to my attraction to "older" women when I was a teenager and while the college and 20 something set may have been desirable, people my parents age…NOT. Crossing a line is one thing and robbing the cradle, whether you are looking up or down, is another. That said, Diane is the type of woman that could make you think about crossing the line so far you forget that it ever existed, at least for a few hours.

Better movies, which deal with controversial teenage sexuality and show where hip, well to do kids might transgress, are "Bully" and "Lost and Delirious." On the surface, "Tadpole" is not objectionable, but like the movie "Sugar and Spice," what comes across as enlightened entertainment may send the wrong message to young teens.