Finding Forrester
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Universal acclaim- based on 35 Ratings
- Starring: Rob Brown, Sean Connery
- Summary: An uplifting story about the unusual dynamic between an isolated author (Connery) and the confident teenager (Brown) who changes his life. (Sony Pictures Entertainment)
- Director: Gus Van Sant
- Genre(s): Drama
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Positive: 18 out of 27
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Mixed: 8 out of 27
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Negative: 1 out of 27
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91Finding Forrester achieves a distinct success few Hollywood movies can even dream of: It overwhelms and inspires with understatement.
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80The ending leans to soap opera, but Van Sant, revisiting the closet-genius theme of "Good Will Hunting" is too keen an observer of character to let this funny and touching film go soft.
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60At times you can feel Van Sant trying to loosen the movie's windpipe-folding collar, but he doesn't get far, except with Busta Rhymes, as Jamal's gone-nowhere big brother.
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10Not even D.W. Griffith, Steven Spielberg, and Stanley Kubrick working together could succeed in making this pandering piece of nonsense work dramatically on any level except the most egregiously phony.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 17 out of 18
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Mixed: 0 out of 18
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Negative: 1 out of 18
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CaroleE.10
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SteveS.7Very pleseant light weight movie. Solid acting butthe plot lacked real grit.
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