Finding Forrester (2000)

Highly Overrated But Still Good

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

I like the most when it says that Jamal Wallace is playing basket ball for acceptance amidst the friends and that is not his passion... people do that a lot.. they do so many things for acceptance. Two equally passionate people from different world, colour, ages shares the love of passion makes millions of feelings inside.

I completely stole those words from reviewer: danhicks from Minnesota. (just wanted to create a one-liner) Oh its gotta be five lines minimum. One of the things in the movie I thought was under developed was the negative vibe between Jamal and the 'rich' black kid played by Matthew Noah Word. "You may think we're the same. We're not." Wow, that's such a horrible attitude.

Because of scoring exceptionally high on a statewide standardized exam and being an exceptionally good basketball player Jamal Wallace is sent to a prestigious prep school in Manhattan. He soon befriends the reclusive writer, William Forrester. The friendship leads William to overcome his reclusiveness and for Jamal to overcome the racial prejudices and pursue his true dream - writing. Finding Forrester is a 2000 Drama starring Sean Connery, Rob Brown, F. Murray Abraham, Anna Paquin and Michael Pitt and the film was directed by Gus Van Sant (Good Will Hunting). What i really liked about this film was the relationship between Jamal and William they had some sort of father and son relationship or whatever you wanna call it but both Brown and Connery are really great in this film and they have a pretty good chemistry plus i liked Abraham as Prof. Robert Crawford he was kinda of the main 'villain' of the Story because he didn't believe Jamal and he didn't believe that he would have a future besides Basketball of course Paquin is also really good. Overall i don't think that there's much more to say it was just a really good Drama with the main actors being really good in their roles and Gus Van Sant just knows how to direct a well made and well directed Drama plus Sean Connery is good in anything he stars.

"Finding Forrester"Finding Forrester, a movie directed and written by Gus Van Sant and Mike Rich in 2000 is about a young talented boy named Jamal Wallace who lives in the Bronx with his mother. However, the talent in his hands is what caught the attention of a prestigious private school called Mailor-Callow, and typically this school is for the smartest yet richest students. Jamal grew up in the Bronx, so it was going to take time for him to get used to going to a school so different than what he was used to. During the days that he would play basketball with his friends they would notice someone watching them from an apartment window. The mystery guy had stories behind why he never left that place, and that is why Jamal's friends dared him to break into the apartment one night to see what was actually in there. Jamal didn't realize that night would change his whole life. Turns out, the mystery man was William Forrester, an author that wrote a book many years ago and went missing soon after. He helped Jamal with his writing and taught him a few life lessons. When Jamal started at the new private school, he had a few ups and downs. His professor Robert Crawford didn't believe that a boy so young could write such amazing work, so he did everything in his power to try to make it to where Jamal didn't get to. When Jamal attended class on the day his essay was meant to be due, William Forrester showed up and read a paper that Jamal had written a while back about friendship. The film "Finding Forrester" to me was very touching. It started out with a different beginning, and the ending surprised me. There is a lot to this story that will move most people. Jamal was an African American boy that didn't grow up rich at all, attended a school mostly for rich kids because of how talented he was at writing, and got bashed on by one of his teammates off the basketball team, and his professor.Professor Robert Crawford would be considered the villain of the movie. He tried to write a book a long time ago but got turned down by the publishers, and after that he decided to become an English teacher for Mailor-Callow private school. William Forrester is the hero, he helped Jamal with his writing so that he could learn to get better and with that time they also became very close friends. Jamal Wallace is sort of like Cinderella, he came from pretty much nothing, and turned out to prove people wrong of what they thought of him and became a successful young man. Claire would be the princess, her father owns Mailor- Callow, and expects nothing but the best from her. She is very sweet and kind to anyone she talks with, and always has a bright attitude.The filmmakers most likely chose these archetypes to show the way they could act towards each other in the same film. The movie "Finding Forrester" is a very well written and brought out movie, you never know what will happen next and the surprises just keep coming. Although some of it can be emotional, but it actually touches the heart. I recommend this movie for anyone that needs to see just how much friendship can mean to someone.