Finding Forrester

A Film Review by Paul Perkins

A Uplifting Film

Finding Forrester
Rating: ****
Directed By: Gus Van Sant
Starring:

Sean Connery
Anna Paquin
Busta Rhymes
F. Murray Abraham
Joey Buttafuoco
Written By: Mike Rich
Rated PG-13 
Running Time 2:20
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Family and friends should be the most sacred thing in your life. Family isn’t always what you’re born with sometimes it’s the people you find sometimes it’s the people who find you.

Four decades ago a writer William Forrester (Sean Connery) won the Pulitzer Prize for a classic novel after that was the last the world heard of him. That is until Jamal Wallace (Rob Brown) a talented scholar athlete which also a great upcoming writer who get dared by his friends to brake into the house of William and take something to they knew he was in there.

But instead he gets caught and accidentally leaves his backpack full of writing. Williams’s beings to read he writing and start to reignits the dreams he had and suppositions. So Jamal find a mentor who will challenge and change him forever. As William has his first reason in years to emerge from his self-imposed solitude.

Finding Forrester is directed by Gus Van Sant who also directed Good Will Hunting, which this film has a bit of it. Finding Forrester was a good film here are some good and bad points.

Good

  1. The story was uplifting.
  2. The acting was good. Sean Connery did a good job and Rob Brown did an good job as well. This is Rob first film.
  3. The supporting cast was also good.
  4. The was a cameo in the film who surprise everyone but of course the person would be in this film.
  5. The trailer did a good job of selling the film. It’s doesn’t give away too much.
  6. It’s a good family movie to see.

 

Bad

  1. It had a little bit of Good Will Hunting in it.
  2. It drags a little.
  3. The film was 2 hr 20 mins long. They could have cut about 30 mins. And still shown the point of the film.

 

Overall Finding Forrest was a good uplifting film. Not one to be misses.

© 2000 Paul Perkins