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Jodie Foster’s acting career has been steady and strong since she began her career as a child, but her attempts at directing and producing seem to be thwarted at every turn. She can push our buttons with a glance, whether as Iris the 12-year-old prostitute in Taxi Driver,](Taxi Driver (1976) - Movie | Moviefone) Sarah the gang rape survivor who challenges the “she asked for it” defense in The Accused,](The Accused (1988) - Movie | Moviefone) or, of course, the seemingly unshakable Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs.](The Silence of the Lambs (1991) - Movie | Moviefone) However, things have been a bit quiet on the Foster front lately. The Brave One,](The Brave One (2007) - Movie | Moviefone) a revenge thriller that she starred in and executive produced, didn’t wow audiences or critics, and neither did the family friendly 2008 film she co-starred in, Nim’s Island.](Nim's Island (2008) - Movie | Moviefone)
1991’s Little Man Tate,](Little Man Tate (1991) - Movie | Moviefone) which she also starred in, was a promising directorial debut, and Home for the Holidays](Home for the Holidays (1995) - Movie | Moviefone) was fair to middling, but since then she hasn’t stepped behind the camera. As she told Entertainment Weekly in 2007,](http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20054140,00.html) another movie she was set to direct, Sugarland starring Robert De Niro,](http://www.cinematical.com/2005/07/26/jodie-foster-picke-next-project/) “just fell apart again… That’s the story in Hollywood. You make personal movies and they’re really hard to get off the ground. S— happens.” Another passion project of hers, *Flora Plum, *was being shopped around to international distributors as early as 2000 by Good Machine, the company now known as Focus Features.
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