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Oct 20, 2000 · Pay It Forward: Directed by Mimi Leder. With Kevin Spacey, Helen Hunt, Haley Joel Osment, Jay Mohr. A young boy attempts to make the world a better place after his teacher gives him that chance.
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- Drama
- Mimi Leder
- 2000-10-20
Pay It Forward is a 2000 American romantic drama film directed by Mimi Leder. The film is based loosely on the novel of the same name by Catherine Ryan Hyde. It is set in Las Vegas, and it chronicles 11- to 12-year-old Trevor McKinney's launch of a goodwill movement known as "pay it forward".
Pay it forward is an expression for describing the beneficiary of a good deed repaying the kindness to others rather than paying it back to the original benefactor. It is also called serial reciprocity .
A young boy attempts to make the world a better place after his teacher gives him that chance. Young Trevor McKinney, troubled by his mother's alcoholism and fears of his abusive but absent father, is caught up by an intriguing assignment from his new social studies teacher, Mr. Simonet.
The story of a social studies teacher who gives an assignment to his junior high school class to think of an idea to change the world for the better, then put...
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- Mimi Leder
- PG-13
- Kevin Spacey
Oct 20, 2000 · Haley Joel Osment, the gifted young actor from " The Sixth Sense ," stars as Trevor, a resourceful latchkey kid whose father has disappeared and whose mother, Arlene ( Helen Hunt ), works two jobs as a Vegas cocktail waitress. She's a recovering alcoholic with a few relapses still to go.
Mar 19, 2018 · What does pay it forward mean? Pay it forward is an expression for when the recipient of an act of kindness does something kind for someone else rather than simply accepting or repaying the original good deed.
