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Finding Forrester

starring: Sean Connery, Rob Brown, F. Murray Abraham, Anna Paquin, Matt Damon
directed by: Gus Van Sant

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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 9780767861434
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0767861434
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: April 24, 2001
Running Time: 136 minutes
Sales Rank: 3299
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: December 19, 2000



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Product Description:
Jamal wallas is a 16-year-old basketball star with a secret passion for writing. William forrester is a famous reclusive novelist who is angry at the world. After an unexpected meeting forrester becomes jamals unlikely mentor and both men learn lessons from each other about the importance of friendship Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 01/22/2008 Starring: Sean Connery Anna Paquin Run time: 136 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Gus Van Sant

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Finding Forrester could have been a shallow variant of The Karate Kid, congratulating itself for featuring a 16-year-old black kid from the South Bronx who's a brilliant scholar-athlete. Instead, director Gus Van Sant plays it matter-of-fact and totally real, casting a nonactor (Rob Brown) as Jamal, a basketball player and gifted student whose writing talent is nurtured by a famously reclusive author. William Forrester (Sean Connery) became a literary icon four decades earlier with a Pulitzer-winning novel, then disappeared (like J.D. Salinger) into his dark, book-filled apartment, agoraphobic and withdrawn from publishing, but as passionate as ever about writing. On a dare, Jamal sneaks into Forrester's musty sanctuary, and what might have been a condescending cliché--homeboy rescued by wiser white mentor--turns into an inspiring meeting of minds, with mutual respect and intelligence erasing boundaries of culture and generation.

Comparisons to Van Sant's Good Will Hunting are inevitable, but Finding Forrester is more honest and less prone to touchy-feely sentiment, as in the way Jamal and a private-school classmate (Anna Paquin) develop a mutual attraction that remains almost entirely unspoken. The film takes a conventional turn when Jamal must defend his integrity (with Forrester's help) in a writing contest judged by a skeptical teacher (F. Murray Abraham), but this ethical subplot is a credible catalyst for Forrester's most dramatic display of friendship. It's one of many fine moments for Connery and Brown (a screen natural), in a memorable film that transcends issues of race to embrace the joy of learning. --Jeff Shannon



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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - educational standpoint
As a high-school teacher for English foundations, I use this movie as a motivational tool to help ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - AWWESOMNE
DUDE LIKE TOTALLY TUBULAR MOVIE... YOUSE GOTTA GET A GOOOD BAKED ON BUZZ FIRST BUT THEN THIS MOVIE ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Sometimes You Can't Find the Forrester for the Trees
Finding Forrester (2000)

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Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Great Message
Liked the message in the movie. Bought it as an inspirational piece for my younger family members.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - You're the man now, dog!
Honestly, does it get any funnier than Sean Connery yelling out, "You're the man now, dog!" That's priceless. ... Read More

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