Finding Forrester
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- Synopsis
- Sent to an all-white prep school on an athletic scholarship, the brash African-American teenager Jamal Wallace's true aspiration is to be a writer. After accidentally meeting the eccentric, reclusive novelist William Forrester (Sean Connery), the ......
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- Starring
- Sean Connery, Rob Brown, F. Murray Abraham, Anna Paquin, Busta Rhymes
- Director(s)
- Gus Van Sant
- Distributor(s)
- Sony
- MPAA Rating
- PG-13
- Runtime
- 136 min.
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Variety | Emanuel LevyAdd Critic to Favorites
Provides a platform for Sean Connery to deliver a definitive, career-summation performance.Read the full review
Rolling Stone | Peter TraversAdd Critic to Favorites
The ending leans to soap opera, but Van Sant, revisiting the closet-genius theme of "Good Will Hunting" is too keen an observer of character to let this funny and touching film go soft.Read the full review
Washington Post | Michael O'SullivanAdd Critic to Favorites
Manages to take the cerebral act of literary creation and make it exciting, sexy even.Read the full review
