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 * Film: Finding Forrester (2000)**
 * Director: Gus Van Sant**
 * Genre: Drama/coming of age film**

Robert Brown .... Jamal Wallace F. Murray Abraham .... Professor Henry Crawford Anna Paquin .... Claire Spence Busta Rhymes .... Terrell April Grace .... Ms. Joyce Michael Pitt .... Coleridge
 * Actors:** Sean Connery .... William Forrester


 * Cinematography: Harris Savides**
 * Music: Bill Brown**
 * Tagline:** In an ordinary place, he found the one person to make his life extraordinary.
 * Plot Outline:** An afro-american teen writing prodigy finds a mentor in a reclusive author.

"Finding Forrester" is a movie about a most unusual and unlikely friendship between two people coming from two very different worlds. William Forrester (Sean Connery), a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, has been holed up in a Bronx apartment for several decades. Jamal Wallace (Rob Brown), a talented but under-challenged teenager, is an extraordinarily gifted writer and a star basketball player. They reluctantly hook up, deal with some beef they have got with each other, then battle thru some deeper social and personal issues out in the world. Near the end, Jamal manfully overcomes an attack on his integrity, (he is accused of plagiarism) and finds his personal convictions, conduct and character vindicated. The experience readies him for the next set of demands he?ll face in the larger, longer and grander game called life'.
 * __Plot Summary:__**

The film deals with a wide range of black/white relational issues (prejudicial stereotypes, interracial dating, exploitation of athletic ability, etc.), but never in a preachy heavy-handed way -- but you do get the film's point. Rob Brown brings a credible and palpable sense of what young black men go through every day and he wins viewers over to the rightness of Jamal's cause as he goes about curiously handling the accusation brought against him. His character wins the battle with the help of Forrester, and the unrighteous motives of those who accuse him get exposed. The movie won't do much to change the troubled state of race relations here in America, but it will hopefully at least change some people's minds about those too often overlooked (or wrongly looked at) to be able to perceive them as veritable "treasures ... riches stored in secret places." (Isaiah 45:3 NIV).