Finding Forrester |  | Director: Gus Van Sant
Actors: Sean Connery, Rob Brown, F. Murray Abraham, Anna Paquin, Matt Damon
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
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Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), English (Unknown), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language), French (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 99
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Running Time: 136 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: COLD05989D
ISBN: 0767861434
UPC: 043396059894
EAN: 9780767861434
Release Date: April 24, 2001
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Product Description
Sean Connery is William Forrester, an author unseen in public since penning an acclaimed first novel, who discovers his Bronx apartment has been broken into on a dare by prep school prodigy Rob Brown. Brown agrees to keep Connery's whereabouts secret if Forrester helps him develop his writing skills, resulting in an unlikely friendship that changes both men's lives in this moving drama. F. Murray Abraham, Anna Paquin also star; directed by Gus Van Zant. 136 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital stereo, French Dolby Digital stereo; Subtitles: English, French; "making of" featurette; deleted scenes; theatrical trailers.
Finding Forrester could have been a shallow variant of The Karate Kid, congratulating itself for featuring a 16-year-old black kid from the South Bronx who's a brilliant scholar-athlete. Instead, director Gus Van Sant plays it matter-of-fact and totally real, casting a nonactor (Rob Brown) as Jamal, a basketball player and gifted student whose writing talent is nurtured by a famously reclusive author. William Forrester (Sean Connery) became a literary icon four decades earlier with a Pulitzer-winning novel, then disappeared (like J.D. Salinger) into his dark, book-filled apartment, agoraphobic and withdrawn from publishing, but as passionate as ever about writing. On a dare, Jamal sneaks into Forrester's musty sanctuary, and what might have been a condescending cliché--homeboy rescued by wiser white mentor--turns into an inspiring meeting of minds, with mutual respect and intelligence erasing boundaries of culture and generation. Comparisons to Van Sant's Good Will Hunting are inevitable, but Finding Forrester is more honest and less prone to touchy-feely sentiment, as in the way Jamal and a private-school classmate (Anna Paquin) develop a mutual attraction that remains almost entirely unspoken. The film takes a conventional turn when Jamal must defend his integrity (with Forrester's help) in a writing contest judged by a skeptical teacher (F. Murray Abraham), but this ethical subplot is a credible catalyst for Forrester's most dramatic display of friendship. It's one of many fine moments for Connery and Brown (a screen natural), in a memorable film that transcends issues of race to embrace the joy of learning. --Jeff Shannon
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