Finding Forrester
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Movie Reviews of Finding Forrester
Movie Review: Finding Forrester - Truly inspirational!
Summary: 5 Stars
In "Finding Forrester" you can find no better story! Finding Forrester is just a wonderful, melodramatic tale that is told from the heart and is quite uplifting. Sean Connery gives a stunning performance as an agoraphobic man devastated by personal loss. Newcomer Rob Brown's performance as an extremely intelligent, but held back by his surroundings youth is nothing less than outstanding and Anna Paquin whose performance is right on with her usual high standards.The premise: MINOR SPOILER
The main character played by Rob Brown is an extraordinarily intelligent sixteen year old living in the South Bronx. As a dare, he is challenged to sneak into "the man in the window's" home and bring something out. Connery scares him out of his home, causing him to leave behind his book bag with all of his stories in it. After critiquing all of his work, Connery drops his book bag down on the street for him to recover. What follows from this point is the development of an unlikely relationship between two people from entirely different worlds. As Connery's character mentors Brown's character in his writing and during the young mans transition from an inner city school to a private school and Brown's character helps to bring Forrester out of his agoraphobic shell. {ssintrepid}
Movie Review: FRIENDSHIP PERSONIFIED!
Summary: 5 Stars
An aging reclusive writer mentors a young, fearless, tough, athletic talented teenager who shows great promise as a writer, and is brilliant on the basketball court. The film is about friendship, jealousy, fear, pride, control, manipulation, the art of communication, the bitterness of failure, power, loyalty, and the beauty of mentorship; that is sharing ones wisdom with another person. Sean Connery, Rob Brown, Anna Paquin are a winning combination. Dialogue is crisp, honest, biting. An embittered professor who duels mercilessly with his students in class because of his own past failure as a writer is the protagonist. His character is harsh, cruel and fuels the explosive dynamics of a writing contest on which hinges the scholastic fate and future of the teenager. Powerful, searing scenes of life at both ends of the survival spectrum. I really liked this film. Exceptional acting, a fine script. Teach those who can learn, and let them, -no- help them to grow up intelligent, productive - whole and healthy beings. As the film demonstrates so well, "when people are afraid, they return to their assumptions, and limit themselves." The characters in this uplifting film confront their fears. Intense, taut, excellent!Movie Review: Suceeds On Many Levels
Summary: 5 Stars
Forrester is a reclusive genius writer. Jamal is a young black athlete who has a gift he cannot cope with. An unlikely relationship, to be sure, but they teach each other about life and soon become friends, with Forrester emerging from his shell and helping Jamal in his time of need. Finding Forrester has a lot of humor in it, and a lot of great drama. But the best part is the acting. It boasts three Academy Award-winners on its cast, along with a remarkable and heartfelt performance by newcomer Rob Brown, who does great in every scene. Connery is amazing, coming off performances in movies like The Rock and Entrapment, which were from okay to bad, he gives the best performance of his career. F. Murray Abraham has been great in everything he has ever been in (Last Action Hero pending), and this is no exception. This movie could have been perfect if maybe 15 or 20 minutes were trimmed, its a bit too long at nearly two and a half hours. However, it is an excellent movie and although the storyline is comprable to Good Will Hunting (it is impossible to write a review for this movie without mentioning GWH), its acting and humor are excellent, its writing and directing are great. Don't miss it. -m-Movie Review: Finding Forrester Fantastic
Summary: 5 Stars
Really great. Sean Connery plays an agoraphobic recluse-writer a la J.D. Salinger who has been holing up in his seventh-floor apartment in the Bronx and living off the royalties from his sole novel, a Pulitzer Prize-winner. This enables him to have a publisher lackey deliver food, Scotch and other items to his apartment. He is also an avid birdwatcher with binoculars, which he also uses to watch local youths playing basketball in front of their public housing apartment towers.
One of the kids, Jamal, sneaks into his apartment on a dare from the other guys and leaves behind his backpack, containing the journals in which he has secretly been writing. Connery dumps the backpack
out of the window, containing his red pencilled teacherly corrections
("Constipated writing!") and a mentoring relationship on both sides ensues.
If you haven't seen this 2000 movie, rent it and I think you'll enjoy it.
It's rated PG-13 for some bad language and two scenes where Jamal endures
loud lovemaking sounds from the neighbors through his paper-thin apartment walls, but otherwise a great family movie to watch with older kids.
Movie Review: Thank you Nick.
Summary: 5 Stars
You all are wearing me out with all these negative comments. This is our latest social code, it seems: to denote anyting attempting positive race relations as too much 'political correctness.' Have it your own way. The director of "Forrester" is the same director of "Good Will Hunting." Yes there are similarities. Your point? And while you're nitpicking about that, know that "Hunting" is also a variation of "The Karate Kid," "Scent of A Woman," "Dead Poets' Society," and a film from the 60's, "Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner." So film plots borrow from one another. Just watch the sublime, tender, witty, beauty of this movie and judge it on its own merits and for yourself. The 'conjunction' sequence between Connery and Brown debating proper grammar is special. Or the scene at Yankee Stadium where a broken Connery delivers a monologue to Brown (which I think should've garnered him an Oscar nomination). And the DVD has a nice appendix of the making of the film along with the original trailers. Isn't there room for appreciation of this movie along with all the others? After all, how different is THE WIZARD OF OZ from ALICE IN WONDERLAND?