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Finding Forrester is a 2000 American drama film written by Mike Rich and directed by Gus Van Sant. In the film, a black teenager, Jamal Wallace , is invited to attend a prestigious private high school.
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Jan 12, 2001 · Finding Forrester: Directed by Gus Van Sant. With Sean Connery, Rob Brown, F. Murray Abraham, Anna Paquin. Forrester, the author of a famous book, decides to help Jamal, a 16-year-old student, discover his writing prowess by mentoring him and enrolling him into a prestigious private school.
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- Drama
- Gus Van Sant
- 2001-01-12
Dec 22, 2000 · Movies about writers are notoriously hard to do, since writing by its nature is not cinematic. "Finding Forrester" evades that problem by giving us a man who wrote one good novel a long time ago, and now writes no more: He has turned into a recluse afraid to leave his own apartment.
Befriended by fellow student Claire and helped along by Pulitzer Prize winning author and recluse William Forrester, Jamal pursues his dreams on and off the court while overcoming obstacles placed by his bitter literature teacher.
A unique relationship develops between an eccentric, reclusive novelist and a young, amazingly gifted scholar-athlete. After the novelist discovers that the young athlete is also an excellent ...
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- Gus Van Sant
- PG-13
- Sean Connery
Dec 22, 2000 · Jamal Wallace (Rob Brown) is a 16-year-old African-American boy living in the Bronx. He’s a voracious reader in private and writes constantly in his notebooks. But in his inner-city school, he...
Mar 12, 2019 · Film and Plot Synopsis. When a high school basketball player named Jamal Wallace scores exceptionally high on a statewide standardized exam, a prestigious prep school in Manhattan accepts him to attend their school. Eventually, this lead him to befriend a reclusive writer named William Forrester.
