Finding Forrester
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Movie Reviews of Finding Forrester
Movie Review: Finding Forrester -- One of the Best Movies this Year
Summary: 5 Stars
From the director who brought us Good Will Hunting, director Gus Van Sant brings us another captivating motion picture, Finding Forrester, that will tug at your heartstrings. As an aspiring writer, I felt an immediate attraction for this film. And as a result, there may be some bias in this review; so please don't hold that against the movie. Sean Connery's performance in this film could earn him a best actor award by year's end. His character, William Forrester, is a recluse who had withdrew from society after writing a Pulitzer winning novel. He shut himself in his Bronx apartment for forty years. It takes a talented sixteen year old black kid named Jamal (Rob Brown, a virtual unknown) to free Forrester from his self-imposed imprisonment.
Although Jamal is intelligent and well read and has the potential to be a great writer, it takes the elder Forrester to smooth out the young writer's rough edges. The friendship formed between the two is self-serving for both, filling a void both had gained after losing a loved one. Forrester teaches Jamal the art of writing and passes on to him a torch he knew he could no longer carry.
Movie Review: A warm and inviting story of the power of friendship.
Summary: 5 Stars
In this brilliantly crafted and extraordinary story of an old man and a young black boy cast into an unusual alliance, the power of friendship is revealed. Alone for most of his life, William Forrester has written one book, and that book became a phenomenal bestseller, capable of lasting through generations, and of supporting Mr. Forrester his whole life. Jamal Wallace is a young black boy living in the Bronx. Jamal loves to write, and it is through his writing that William and Jamal meet, and form a most unlikely team. Neither character believes their time spent together will be anything more than lessons learned from an old pro to a neophyte writer, but what evolves between them is a friendship so strong and so powerful, it will change each of them forever. William Forrester finds a very different definition of love than he ever thought possible, and Jamal Wallace is brought into a world that seems destined to break him, until William and Jamal together conquer seemingly insurmountable resistance to produce an individual meaning of love neither will ever forget. This movie will last a long, long time.Movie Review: Wonderful Movie
Summary: 5 Stars
Before I rented this movie, I was skeptical as to my interest level. But after a bit of coercion from my wife I consented an rented it. Half way through the movie I was captivated by the beautiful story line and the supurb acting. The movie is set in the Bronx, NY. The setting is typical New York urban developments; children playing, tall buildings and much traffic. The movie begins with a few young men playing basketball on an outside court. Their attention is diverted to a window at the top of a, moderately tall, apartment building. Here, William Forrester - Sean Connery, sits and watches the urbanesque view below. Through acts of inmature jesting, the paths of Jamal , Rob Brown, and Sean Connery meet. This meeting will invoke a symbiotic relationship where the two men discover their need for each other - filling an empty void within their souls. This movie has all of the emotions that humans can understand. You will remember this movie not just as an entertaining story, but also as a life lesson that we each can learn from.Movie Review: Paper Chase meets Good Will Hunting
Summary: 5 Stars
In an era of movies laden with heavy background music, violence, conflict . .where physical aggression triumphs over guile and intelligence, FINDING FORRESTER is truly a breath of fresh air. Sean Connery plays the aging academic/ writer recluse beautifully . .his achilles heel is dealing with today's changed world and society's aggressive "loudness" . .his young counterpart the opposite- uncomfortable with his academic and deeply insightful interpretive abilities of life- he retreats to the role of the rap listening, basketball junkie. Through a chance encounter, the two become friends- resspecting one and other and bringing each other out of their shells. Surprise twists and lots of "warm fuzzy" moments make this one of the decade's best feel good movies- a must see for children who feel akward about their God given academic abilities- almost a parenting aid that rivals positive reaffirmation of child therapists . . and just plain a nice feel good movie. Enjoy !!!Movie Review: Good Movie, excelent music!
Summary: 5 Stars
What a good movie... but the music is Excelent! i recomend everybody to buy the soundtrack of this movie, the amazing tune OVER THE RAINBOW/WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD is only one of a very fine selection of music! (reviews at the cd section). The history have a lots of cliches, but the cast is so perfect that you can forget/forgive those cliches easily. I like this kind of movies, I'm from Venezuela and my mother language is not the english (as you can guess!) but the idioms and particularly the english can have a rhythm that you can really enjoy like in this movie, from slang to the "educated english" the experience is enhaced thanks to this. In the same way the adventure of 'finding' the infinite posibilities of the human being is portrayed sincerely like Forrester said "...he only helped Jamal to find his own words" truely i think that to write builds a bridge between all kind of people. Perfect if after you watch it you write something and share it with a friend.