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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".
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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.
- (125K)
- Drama
- Mimi Leder
- 2000-10-20
When one young student creates a plan for "paying forward" favors, he not only affects the life of his struggling single mother, but he sets in motion an unprecedented wave of human kindness...
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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.
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 assignment: think of something to change the world and put it into action.
Academy Award winners Helen Hunt and Kevin Spacey star with Haley Joel Osment as a struggling single mother, a social studies teacher whose placid life is in perfect order...
A young boy, whose own life is far from rosy, takes the assignment to heart and invents the "pay-it-forward" philosophy, which encourages paying back favors in advance. The whole town embraces the boy's concept, and random acts of kindness become a community pastime.
