Finding Forrester Movie Review

Finding Forrester is a movie that is a drama. It is a great movie. The director of the movie is Gus Van Sant, and the producers of the movie are Johnathon King, Dany Wolf, Thomas Sean Connery, Rhonda Tollefson and Laurence Mark. The main actors in this movie Finding Forrester are Sean Connery as William Forrester, Rob Brown as Jamal Wallace, Anna Paquin as Claire Spence, and Busta Rhymes as Terrell Wallace.

Finding Forrester is a movie that catches your attention right off the bat. When the directors made this film they knew what they were doing. Here is a little summery of the movie.

A boy named Jamal Wallace who lives in the Bronx with his mother and his brother Terrell Wallace is getting bad grades in school. Jamal is great at basketball so he spends most of his time playing that with his friends instead of paying attention to his school work. When it comes time for an I.Q. test Jamal scores really high grades on this and then a private prep school catches wind of this and asks him to go to their school and they will not charge him to get the education. Jamal accepts the invitation from the school and gets on a basketball team.

Jamal Wallace makes a new friend and his name is William Forrester a famous author and Jamal does not know this. Latter on in the movie Forrester shows up at Jamal's school to read a piece of writing that Jamal wrote and the teacher Professor Crawford asks Forrester if he would take up a position in the teachers board, then Forrester tells them that the piece of writing he had just read was the writing of Jamal Wallace.

William Forrester leaves to go back to his homeland in Scotland after reading Jamal's writing to the class. About two days after Forrester leaves his lawyer comes to the school to speak with Jamal and tells him that William Forrester has passed away and Forrester wanted his friend Jamal Wallace to have everything he owned. William Forrester died of cancer and he never told Jamal about this because he didn't want to get him upset.

This film is an extraordinary film. When you watch this you get a sense that you are actually in the Bronx watching it as it happens. This film was a very successful film it has 4 wins and 8 nominations. This film was a great success just like these movies directed by Gus Van Sant: Drugstore Cowboy, My Own Private Idaho, To Die For, Psycho, Last Days. These movies were all a great success partially because they were high budget films, but I think it is more to do with who the director.

The quality of the movie Finding Forrester is really good. For the setting I find that it actually sounds and looks just like the Bronx, bad and dirty. I'm not trying to stereotype, but it's the the truth. The quality of the acting in this film is just about perfect the actors are great in this movie nobody else could have done it better. The quality of the conflict is clear what i think that the conflict is man versus himself. The quality of the music in Finding Forrester is good also every bit of music fits every part of the movie perfectly.

I find that the movie does get the point across to the audience effectivley without a problem. The message of the film is to do the best you can in every aspect of life because you never know what lies around the next turn.