Finding Forrester (2000)
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Reviews Counted:121
Fresh:89
Rotten:32
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
Genre: Dramas
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... [More]
Starring: Sean Connery, Rob Brown, Anna Paquin, F. Murray Abraham
Director: Gus Van Sant
Reviews for Finding Forrester
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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? Full Review |
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All signs of intelligent life are sacrificed to Hollywood formula and liberal wish-fulfilment. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Over-long and underwritten drama with too many shades of Good Will Hunting. Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
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. Full Review |
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Finding Forrester is an easy watch with just enough of a feeling of prestige and respectability about it to please serious moviegoers. Full Review |
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4/5 |
An intelligent, subtle, in short remarkable take on growing up, being true to yourself and fighting the odds. Full Review |
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3/5 |
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. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
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. Full Review |
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4/5 |
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. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
It's a really good movie. Full Review |
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La cinta es disfrutable aunque uno no sea de color, buen tirador de tiros libres, o buen escritor. Full Review |
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3/4 |
The relationship between Connery and Brown is powerful enough to sustain the story. Full Review |
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It is a film about intelligence in unlikely places that, paradoxically, requires you to check your brain at the door. Full Review |
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2/4 |
A pleasant movie we've all seen before. Full Review |
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