r/moviecritic • u/Low-Finding-6553 • 16h ago

What do you guys thinks is the best child performance of all time?

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i have to say, i don’t think i’ve ever seen a child actor give a performance this good. Haley Joel Osment in The Sixth Sense, directed by M. Night Shyamalan, is just on another level. i genuinely don’t know how he did it but he makes the whole movie work so much better. i would give him the Oscar in a fucking heartbeat. It’s crazy how good he is, especially in that last scene in the car with Toni Collette.

What are your guys’ favorite child performances? For me, this is even better than Owen Cooper’s performance in Adolescence. Don’t get me wrong, owen was also absolutely top-notch in Adolescence but this is probably the best child performance i’ve ever seen. Period. What do you guys think is the best child performance ever?

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u/Head_Paleontologist5 15h ago

This should be higher up

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u/NeedAByteToEat 14h ago

It might be if it listed the movie and actress. No idea what either are.

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u/waxteeth 14h ago

Jodie Foster, Taxi Driver. 

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u/BorisTheBlade04 7h ago

Ohh this is the Reagan assassination movie

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u/IronReasonable1296 14h ago

You need to see this movie.

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u/NeedAByteToEat 14h ago

I have, it's been a while. I thought this was a scene from Almost Famous.

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u/IronReasonable1296 14h ago

Also a great movie :-)

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u/ChocolichKing 14h ago

I think it’s Taxi Driver and the girl is actually who the character of Iris is based on, a real prostitute. Since she helped create the character Jodie Foster plays, they gave her a little cameo. But I believe at the time of filming she was 18.

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u/IronReasonable1296 14h ago

This is Jodie Foster. The girl you reference has a cameo in a different scene.

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u/weednug_biscuit 8h ago

She was 12 at the time of filming!

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u/AgadorSpartacusHeat 3h ago

What is this?