Finding Forrester (2000)
Average Rating: 6.5/10
Reviews Counted: 124
Fresh: 91 | Rotten: 33
Despite the predictability of its plot and its similarity to Good Will Hunting, Finding Forrester has an honest, solid feel to it and good rapport between Connery and Brown.
Average Rating: 6.2/10
Critic Reviews: 33
Fresh: 23 | Rotten: 10
Despite the predictability of its plot and its similarity to Good Will Hunting, Finding Forrester has an honest, solid feel to it and good rapport between Connery and Brown.
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In the spirit of his Oscar-winning Good Will Hunting, Gus Van Sant directs this tale of the unlikely bond that develops between an aging, reclusive novelist named Forrester (Sean Connery) -- who hasn't written anything since winning a Pulitzer Prize decades earlier -- and Jamal (Rob Brown), a 16-year-old with a hidden desire to be a writer. When Jamal is cited for his athleticism in basketball by an elite Manhattan prep school, he is forced to adapt to an environment far from his South Bronx
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Sean Connery
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Rob Brown (VI)
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F Murray Abraham
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Anna Paquin
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Busta Rhymes
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April Grace
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Michael Nouri
Dr. Spence
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All Critics (130) | Top Critics (35) | Fresh (92) | Rotten (35) | DVD (17)
If director Gus Van Sant had always been a hack it wouldn't matter so much, but personally I find this form of licking the audience's cheeks like an obsequious puppy deeply offensive.
The leaden screenplay can be fingered for many of the film's faults. But what happened to the off-kilter film-maker last seen at work in To Die For?
Top CriticAn anti-intellectual film about the intellectual life.
Funny and touching.
A rare find.
A rewarding exploration of the knotty and often contentious relationship between teacher and protege. Its chief pleasure is the master class in the art of acting delivered by Sean Connery.
predictable formula film that is quickly forgotten
Quality characters, solid film; OK for ages 14+.
Lost in "Forrester's" dismissal is appreciation for its relatively piss-and-vinegar approach to the act of creating fiction. Jazzy, classicist and a bit meta, the film's unexpectedly urbane quirks resemble Jonathan Demme films at their mainstream best.
Brown, in his acting debut, displays the balance of book smarts, street smarts, and vulnerability that is crucial to the part.
Rather hollow effort.
Finding Forrester is almost worth seeing for Connery and Brown, but it's a lot to ask for people to sit through 136 minutes when only about a third of it is any good.
Finding Forrester is not the fastest-paced film in the world, nor the most stirring. It is however the most complete portrait of what it means to be a writer that I've seen in a long time.
It's a really good movie.
La cinta es disfrutable aunque uno no sea de color, buen tirador de tiros libres, o buen escritor.
All signs of intelligent life are sacrificed to Hollywood formula and liberal wish-fulfilment.
The relationship between Connery and Brown is powerful enough to sustain the story.
It is a film about intelligence in unlikely places that, paradoxically, requires you to check your brain at the door.
A pleasant movie we've all seen before.
Audience Reviews for Finding Forrester
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- William Forrester: The Times is dinner, The National Enquirer is dessert.
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- William Forrester: You're the man now, dog!
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- William Forrester: We walk away from our dreams afraid that we may fail, or worse yet, afeaid we may succeed.
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- William Forrester: The key to a woman's heart is an unexpected gift at an unexpected time.
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- William Forrester: You must write your first draft with your heart. You rewrite with your head. The first key to writing is... to write, not to think.
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Foreign Titles
- A la rencontre de Forrester (FR)
- Descubriendo a Forrester (ES)
