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Finding Forrester (2000)
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Reviews Counted: 121
Fresh: 90
Rotten:31
Average Rating: 6.5/10
Consensus: Despite the predictability of its plot and its similarity to Good Will Hunting, Finding Forrester has an honest, solid feel to it and good rapport between Connery and Brown.
Theatrical Release: Dec 20, 2000 Limited
Box Office: $51,370,406
Synopsis: Director Gus Van Sant brings to the screen this moving story of a grizzled recluse and an inner-city teenager brought together by their shared passion for writing. Like Van Sant's Oscar-nominated GOOD WILL HUNTING, FINDING FORRESTER... [More]
Starring: Sean Connery, Rob Brown, Anna Paquin, F. Murray Abraham
Director: Gus Van Sant
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If director Gus Van Sant had always been a hack it wouldn't matter so much, but personally I find this form of licking the audience's cheeks like an obsequious puppy deeply offensive.
03/25/08
Top Critic Finding Forrester is almost worth seeing for Connery and Brown, but it's a lot to ask for people to sit through 136 minutes when only about a third of it is any good.
05/26/06
The leaden screenplay can be fingered for many of the film's faults. But what happened to the off-kilter film-maker last seen at work in To Die For?
01/26/06
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Finding Forrester is not the fastest-paced film in the world, nor the most stirring. It is however the most complete portrait of what it means to be a writer that I've seen in a long time.
12/06/05
La cinta es disfrutable aunque uno no sea de color, buen tirador de tiros libres, o buen escritor.
07/25/04
All signs of intelligent life are sacrificed to Hollywood formula and liberal wish-fulfilment.
12/15/03
The relationship between Connery and Brown is powerful enough to sustain the story.
06/17/03
It is a film about intelligence in unlikely places that, paradoxically, requires you to check your brain at the door.
05/22/03
A nice-looking, nice-feeling exercise in conventionalism that sure could use a couple of transvestites and maybe a house falling from the sky.
03/10/03
Finding Forrester is Gus Van Sant treading water in Hollywood, but he's making a beautiful pattern.
03/04/03
The most complete portrait of what it means to be a writer that I've seen in a long time.
12/08/02
Over-long and underwritten drama with too many shades of Good Will Hunting.
10/30/02
There's nothing particularly original about this story, but within its limitations it's done quite well.
10/21/02
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