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Finding Forrester (2000)
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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a Pulitzer-winning novel, then disappeared (like J.D. Salinger) into his dark, book-filled apartment, agoraphobic and withdrawn from publishing,...
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I just finished watching Gus Van Sant's Paranoid Park, and I wanted to revisit this film, which like Paranoid Park is focused on teens, an apparent theme of Van Sants.
Jamal (Rob Brown - Stop-Loss) is a typical black teen that plays down his intelligence and love of reading and writing and focuses on basketball to fit in...
(complete Finding Forrester review by Movie Addict)
| Finding Forrester Movie Review by Bryne (4/18/2008) |
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This is a nice inspirational movie about a talented young man happening to come across an inspiring mentor at just the right time in his life, and each learning something from the other. It's been done many times before and since but the combined talent of Sean Connery and Rob Brown overcome any drudge that might have...
(complete Finding Forrester review by Bryne)
| Finding Forrester Movie Review by Jesse (12/14/2006) |
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When movies come around like this, mentor movies, they make me happy. Not only are they inspirational but they can brighten someone's life. For me, movies like these are rare things. I know many of them have been made [like The Karate Kid and Good Will Hunting], but they are all unique in their own way. This movie was...
(complete Finding Forrester review by Jesse)
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