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starring: F. Murray Abraham, Charles Bernstein (III), Stephanie Berry, Rob Brown (VI), Sean Connery
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780767866484
Format: Color, Dolby, NTSC
ISBN: 0767866487
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Release Date: August 28, 2001
Running Time: 136 minutes
Sales Rank: 78746
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: December 19, 2000
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Finding Forrester could have been a shallow variant of The Karate Kid, congratulating itself for featuring a 16-year-old black kid from the South Bronx who's a brilliant scholar-athlete. Instead, director Gus Van Sant plays it matter-of-fact and totally real, casting a nonactor (Rob Brown) as Jamal, a basketball player and gifted student whose writing talent is nurtured by a famously reclusive author. William Forrester (Sean Connery) became a literary icon four decades earlier with a Pulitzer-winning novel, then disappeared (like J.D. Salinger) into his dark, book-filled apartment, agoraphobic and withdrawn from publishing, but as passionate as ever about writing. On a dare, Jamal sneaks into Forrester's musty sanctuary, and what might have been a condescending cliché--homeboy rescued by wiser white mentor--turns into an inspiring meeting of minds, with mutual respect and intelligence erasing boundaries of culture and generation.
Comparisons to Van Sant's Good Will Hunting are inevitable, but Finding Forrester is more honest and less prone to touchy-feely sentiment, as in the way Jamal and a private-school classmate (Anna Paquin) develop a mutual attraction that remains almost entirely unspoken. The film takes a conventional turn when Jamal must defend his integrity (with Forrester's help) in a writing contest judged by a skeptical teacher (F. Murray Abraham), but this ethical subplot is a credible catalyst for Forrester's most dramatic display of friendship. It's one of many fine moments for Connery and Brown (a screen natural), in a memorable film that transcends issues of race to embrace the joy of learning. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - educational standpoint
As a high-school teacher for English foundations, I use this movie as a motivational tool to help prepare them for standarized writing assessments. I strongly recommend using this dvd to support your curriculum to teach on all levels of student learning (auditory, kinesthetic, visual).
Rating: - AWWESOMNE
DUDE LIKE TOTALLY TUBULAR MOVIE... YOUSE GOTTA GET A GOOOD BAKED ON BUZZ FIRST BUT THEN THIS MOVIE ROCKS LIKE TOTALLY.
LIKE WOW MAN I LOVED DID MOVIE.
Rating: - Sometimes You Can't Find the Forrester for the Trees
Finding Forrester (2000)
Sean Connery is William Forrester, a brilliant novelist who published one book and then stopped publishing. Newcomer Rob Brown is Jamal Wallace. He is a black kid, or man of 16 years, living in the Bronx. He lives for basketball, but is a voracious reader, and he writes in journals. He keeps them in his backpack. He thinks he is a basketball player, but he was born to be a writer.
On a dare, he is supposed to sneak into some old man's apartment, ... Read More
Rating: - Great Message
Liked the message in the movie. Bought it as an inspirational piece for my younger family members.
Rating: - You're the man now, dog!
Honestly, does it get any funnier than Sean Connery yelling out, "You're the man now, dog!" That's priceless. Not only is it funny because it's Connery using modern day slang, it's also because the usage of the word "dog" went out of style faster than...well, it never was cool to say. The saying, however, is as timeless as "more cowbell" and "My name is Inigo Montoya..." - it just gets better each time it's heard.
Another classic line is when Connery belts out, "PUNCH the keys for ... Read More
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