Rather hollow effort.
Comment
03/25/08
Finding Forrester (2000)
74 %
Reviews Counted: 120 Fresh: 89 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.
Runtime: 2 hrs 16 mins
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 earnestly explores the struggles of a youthful genius... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Sean Connery, Rob Brown, Anna Paquin, F. Murray Abraham, Busta Rhymes
Director: Gus Van Sant
Screenwriter: Mike Rich
Producer: Laurence Mark, Sean Connery, Rhonda Tollefson
Screenwriter: Mike Rich
Producer: Laurence Mark, Sean Connery, Rhonda Tollefson
Reviews
Top Critic
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
Top Critic
All signs of intelligent life are sacrificed to Hollywood formula and liberal wish-fulfilment.
12/15/03
Over-long and underwritten drama with too many shades of Good Will Hunting.
10/30/02
Hollywood films have a tendency to fall apart in the final reel (due to studio pressures and those notorious audience preview comments), but we hoped Van Sant would avoid this pitfall. Alas.
12/10/01
Finding Forrester is an easy watch with just enough of a feeling of prestige and respectability about it to please serious moviegoers.
05/07/01
An intelligent, subtle, in short remarkable take on growing up, being true to yourself and fighting the odds.
04/16/01
Top Critic
Although it's familiar territory, Van Sant gives the material a new spin and the result is off-beat, low-key and guaranteed to lift spirits with its easy charm.
02/23/01
Top Critic
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
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
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
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
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