Finding Forrester

Pros: Finding Forrester is one of the best films I've watched in a long time.
Cons: None noted.

Although I've read a lot of wonderful reviews on Finding Forrester; it has taken me a while before finally sitting down to watch this movie for several reasons. First I thought it was another unrealistic feel good tearjerker. Second, since its ...

Pros: great acting, touching story, comeing of age film
Cons: can seem slow in some parts

Finding Forrester is the latest film starring the great Sean Connery. I went to see this film, because I think that Connery is a very good actor, and because I was drawn in simply by the preview. Never having heard of the movie, I was sitting in the ...

Pros: the cast
Cons: slow movie, a big cliché, predictable

It was about two years ago that I finally got around to watching part of Finding Forrester. Unfortunately, I never watched the whole thing. So when I got a chance to watch it again a short while ago, I took it and don’t regret doing so. I only ...

Pros: Great script,strong dialogue. Connery and Brown should have won Oscars
Cons: Drags in places.

Pros: Astounding performances by Sean Connery and Robert Brown.
Cons: Maybe more character development of some of the other roles.

This movie is NOT "Good Will Hunting" or "Dead Poets Society". A lot of people said this before I went to see it, but this is a very good movie that stands on it's own. As a matter of fact, there was a cameo by Matt Damon AND a character by the name...

Pros: Well written, acted, directed and great music score
Cons: The character Jamal Wallace is almost too perfect

It is almost funny that the star of this movie is not even listed as an actor in the summary information by Epinions. I suppose this can be excused as this film introduces Rob Brown but he plays the main character, Jamal Wallace, who is the finder of...

Pros: Connery, Brown, Abraham, Paquin, insightful look at writers
Cons: Reminiscent of "Good Will Hunting"

In every city, genius lives quietly, showing a spark of that brilliance from time to time. In author William Forrester's case, he lives quietly and reclusively in an apartment in the Bronx. He is so reclusive, he has withdrawn himself from most human...

Pros: Sean Connery
Cons: A little slow in the beginning

My husband and I decided to take in a movie on our recent anniversary weekend over the Christmas holidays. We were in Miami and entered the 14-theater metro-plex not knowing which movie we were going to see. It was our turn in line and we needed to...

Pros: intelligent dialogue, excellent relationship development, Superb performances
Cons: swearing seemed out of place

It is really too bad that our society has become so skeptical. Whenever anything good or decent comes out, there always seems to be a host of vultures waiting for the wild and negative critics to weaken and disable it.

If they succeed, then...

Pros: Understated eloquence and power that avoids treacherous maudlin stereotypes.
Cons: One slightly over-the-top performance.

Near the very end of director Gus Van Sant’s recent film “Finding Forrester,” superstar actor Matt Damon makes a tiny, unannounced cameo appearance.

From an actor’s perspective the role is absolutely insignificant even if...

Pros: Moving and inspirational
Cons: A bit too trite and predictable

“Yo, you ever see him? The window?”
“Nah.”
“But he see us, man.”

“The window” is an unnerving phantom figure regularly seen gazing though a pair of binoculars at the world outside his frozen-in-time apartment in the South...

Pros: Touching tale, real characters, defies stereotypes
Cons: Could have explored the Claire/Jamal relationship more, a few loose ends

Amidst all of the holiday glitter and buzz, Finding Forrester slips in and gives us a little more to think about. This is a tale of friendship, of dreams, and of overcoming obstacles that shouldn’t be missed.

Sean Connery stars as...

Pros: Powerful entertainment.
Cons: Nada.

Sean Connery has given us at least two great and distinct bodies of work in his films. One might choose to see them as two divisions in one body of work, but I view it as two incarnations. Whatever the case, he successfully did what not many actors can ...

Pros: incredible soundtrack, good acting
Cons: F. Murray Abraham's role

Gus Van Sant realizes something that many filmmakers seem not to understand--the sounds that accompany your images may end up as important as the images themselves.

How do I know he knows this? About halfway through "Finding Forrester," Jamal...

Pros: Van Sant's Direction, Story, Cinematography, Editing, Music, & Cast.
Cons: Abraham's Under-Written Character & Familiar Story Templates to Other Films.

After achieving commercial success and critical acclaim with 1997's Good Will Hunting that nabbed 3 Oscars for Best Supporting Actor to Robin Williams and a Best Original Screenplay Oscar to Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. Director Gus Van Sant ...