slightlymad22 Continuing my plan to watch every Sean Connery movie in order, I come to the penultimate movie in his filmography Finding Forrester (2000)Plot In A Paragraph: A young writing protégé (Rob Brown), finds help with a reclusive author (Connery) The last REALLY good movie Connery made. It's a wonderful performance that was surprisingly snubbed come awards season. Rob Brown gives a really good performance, even more so when you consider it was his debut. F Murray Abraham is his usual great self!! Perfectly annoying!! Matt Damon pops up in a cameo as a lawyer too.It has a few pacing issues, a few unnecessary scenes and it's quite poorly lit at times too!! But those are minor gripes, and I for one love this movie. It would make my Top 100 of the decade. This is the movie I wished Connery ended his filmography on. But like with Clint Eastwood, he went one more after a great movie. Although Eastwood's last movie was not the disaster that Connery's was. Finding Forrester grossed $51 million st the domestic box office, to end 2000 as the 50th highest grossing movie of the year.

martinguggiaric It is a story between a old writer, William and a young talent writer, Jamal. The young man broke into the old man's apartment, then they meet each other. When he enters in a private school with his great basketball skills and writing skills, he finds the old man is one of the great writers. Jamal visits William's home and they start writing together every night. They share their story, too. William tell Jamal do not bring anything he wrote out of the apartment the professor helps Jamal improve a lot and tests him, Jamal shows some of his articles which he wrote in the apartment to his school and gets in trouble. Jamal thought it's William's fault because he didn't tell him. so they fought. Finally, William comes to an important meeting and helps Jamal explain Jamal 'COPIED' other articles because he promise do not tell anybody they write together every night. At that time William merely gave Jamal the first paragraph and let him keep writing. In the end both of them recognize that they are the family they are looking for

lisetgomez In most movies there are people characterized as villains and heroes, although the may not be wearing a cap or have super powers. Heroes are described as the people that help others while the villains are the ones that bring down people and maybe try to destroy them. In the Film "Finding Forrester" Directed by Gus van Sant and Written by Mike Rich, Williams apartment can be considered his tower in which he uses to get away from everyone due to the fact that he lets no one in and he lives by himself. His apartment is located on the top floor in the corner of a building in the middle of the Bronx, New York. Williams tower is the place where William ran to after his first book was a huge hit and he couldn't take in all the attention he was getting. Williams apartment was filled with books all over the place all of them being his although he only had one book published during his whole life span. The main character is a teenage black male named Jamal Wallace that loves to write and play basketball in which he is considered the hero of the movie due to the fact that he helps William Forrester his mentor who is/was a famous writer, realize that there is more to life than just staying in his apartment. Jamal first meet William when he snuck into his apartment at night due to a dare that his friends told him to do. Moreover that dare did not go as planned due to the fact that he left his backpack that had all his writing notebooks in his apartment; after a few day William threw Jamal's bag out of his window in which later Jamal found out that William had written inside all of his journals. Jamal also helps William get fully out of his apartment for the first time since he had moved in. After Jamal went back and complained to William about him writing in his journals he asked him that if he kept his mouth shut then he would have to help him on his writing. In which then William became the mentor of the movie because he gave Jamal some tips on how to win over a girl and he also taught him how to be a writer not a reader. Because "writers write thing to give readers something to read." Although a movie cannot be a movie if there isn't a villain. Professor Robert Crawford also known as the failed/ rejected writer believes and accuses Jamal of stealing someone else's work because he believes that Jamal couldn't have wrote that due to the fact that it was an excellent essay and because Jamal had not done so good in his previous school. In conclusion Jamal breaking into William's apartment and leaving his backpack was not a bad idea because he got so much out of it not just the ability to write better but he also learned new things about life from Forrester. Whereas William realized that there is no time to waste because eventually your time will be up so you have to make the best of it while you're here.

aimeelevesque Finding Forrester, starring Sean Connery and Rob Brow, tells the tale of a simple kid from the Bronx getting his second chance at a new school. On a dare from his friends he finds a new mentor that he hopes will help him to be an amazing writer one day. Little did he know that this new mentor of his was a man in hiding. When Jamal Wallace gets to his new school he instantly makes a new friend that will be the only one to believe him when his teacher accuses him of cheating because his writing is just too good. After a slip up at the big game Jamal's mentor has to make the choice of whether his reputation or his friend is more important to him. This movie is about a writer's journey that I feel many book lovers or aspiring writers would enjoy watching. With not too many edge of the seat moments is allows you to sit back and watch all the small details that Gus Van Sant throws your way. Towards the beginning of the movie, Jamal and his friends are playing basketball when they catch the mysterious window man watching them. Because it is so common for them to see him and no one actually has ever met him before Jamal's friends decided to dare him to go into the window mans house. Thus the initiation of when the two main characters will meet and the journey will start. The next archetype that we see is the window man's tower. Since no one knows who the strange man is and why he is there we conclude that he is living in isolation. The only person we know that visits him is the guy driving the BMW that takes the window man his groceries. Later on in the movie we find that the window man chooses to be in isolation. When Jamal Wallace goes to visit the new school he is considering to go to you will notice that the color green is in almost every frame. When he is standing outside of the school the school's flag is a green color which leads you to think that their school color is green. Also when Jamal goes to the office to talk to the consular the walls are green. The color green is an Archetype for a new life or a new beginning. Which Jamal is getting with this new school. Not only will this school help him with his writing but they want him to play basketball for them in hopes that he will not only help them win but it will help him get a scholarship for college. Towards the end of the movie the basketball team is at the championship games and Jamal must score the last two points in order for the team to win. This is the task that the hero must complete in order to win for his school and save himself. But because Jamal is under so much pressure from his teacher accusing him of cheating, and him not being able to clear his name because he can't spoil the window man's secret, the task proves to be too difficult for Jamal. Therefore the window man is forced to come to crossroad. He has to decided if saving his friend Jamal is more important than keeping who he is a secret for the rest of his life. These Archetypes that Mike Rich chose to put into the movie aren't always noticeable to all but it helps to give direction. The classic archetypes give the movie the plot but the small ones give it details that allow the watcher to know where the movie is heading without giving away too many details