Review by Bill Galloway
You're the man now, dog!
One of very few movies where one line of dialogue inspired countless websites.
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| Title Statement | Finding Forrester [DVD] / Columbia Pictures in association with Fountainbridge films ; produced by Laurence Mark, Sean Connery and Rhonda Tollefson ; directed by Gus Van Sant ; written by Mike Rich. |
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| Additional Contributors | Van Sant, Gus |
| Connery, Sean | |
| Abraham, F. Murray | |
| Paquin, Anna | |
| Publication | Culver City, Calif.: Columbia Tristar Home Video, c2001. |
| Extent of Item | 1 videodisc (ca. 136 min.) |
| ISBN | 0767861434 (v.r.) |
| Standard Number (UPC, etc.) | 043396059894 |
| Other Number | 713885 |
| General Notes | Digital video disc (DVD) Disc label title. Original copyright 2000, Columbia Pictures. Special features: digitally mastered audio and anamorphic video, HBO making-of Finding Forrester, found: Rob Brown featurette, deleted choir scenes, theatrical trailers, talent files, interactive menus, production notes, scene selections. Widescreen presentation. Scene selection list inserted in container. |
| Performance Credits | Sean Connery, F. Murray Abraham, Anna Paquin, Busta Rhymes and Rob Brown. |
| Audience & Ratings | CHV rating: PG. MPAA rating: PG-13. |
| Languages | English and French language tracks.English and French language subtitles.Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired. |
| System Details | NTSC 1. |
| Terms of Use | For home use only. |
| Summary | Story about Jamal Brown, a 16-year-old basketball player in New York City whose secret passion is writing and William Forrester, a reclusive Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who never gave the world a second novel. After an accidental meeting, Forrester becomes Jamal's unlikely mentor and both men learn lessons from each other about life and the importance of friendship. |
| Subjects & Genres | |
| By Topic | Male friendship--Fiction |
| Authors--Fiction | |
| Basketball players--Fiction | |
| Mentoring--Fiction | |
| Feature films | |
| Video recordings for the hearing impaired | |
| By Location | New York (N.Y.)--Fiction |
