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22nd February 2001
Finding Forrester 12 cert camera


Dir: Gus Van Sant
Cast:
Sean Connery, Rob Brown, F Murray Abraham, Anna Paquin, Busta Rhymes
Length: 137 minutes
Release:
23rd February 2001

Finding Forrester
entertainment block
You're joking. You once played James Bond!
Youth meets age, black meets white. Each has negative views of the other but a love of writing brings Sean Connery and newcomer Rob Brown together.

It's a long way from 007 but then again Sean Connery has successfully managed to put James Bond behind him (after all it has been twenty odd years since he last played the secret agent in Never Say Never Again).

Having said that, when you think of Connery's acting range you're pretty sure of what you are going to get. Finding Forrester is the perfect Connery movie.

Finding Forrester
Once a secret agent, always a secret agent

He plays William Forrester, a one time Pulitzer Prize-winning author who shut himself off from the world after winning the honour some forty years ago.

He's become a hermit - gruff and eccentric - think Highlander (or any recent Connery film!).

However, his life changes when his Bronx neighbour Jamal (Brown) sneaks into his apartment.

Jamal is a talented black teenager. Not only a gifted basketball player, he has a passion for writing.

Finding Forrester
Come on then Mr. 007 - let's see you do this

When he leaves his rucksack in Forrester's apartment his work is discovered. Forrester is suitably impressed to correct the prose before shoving it back under his neighbour's door.

A friendship develops with ageist and racist barriers being broken down.

But when Jamal is accused of plagiarism by Professor Crawford (F Murray Abraham) Forrester is faced with abandoning his protégé or giving up his hermit existence.

It's a powerful film with demands on the two central characters. Both pull off the job. While that's expected of Connery special mention must go to Rob Brown.

This is his first film appearance. He was only sixteen when shooting began and his debut is exceptional.

Director Gus Van Saint scored a major hit with Good Will Hunting. This will attract a similar audience (plus Connery lovers) and should prove just as successful at the box office.

4/5

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