Finding Forrester - a good movie?

[Mr Flibble]

Mrs Flibbles friend at work is the german account manager for her company - she's just got a DVD player and gets the majority of her R2 DVD's from back home in Berlin.

Anyway, she's leant us her copy of 'Finding Forrester', but the packaging is all in German - I haven't got a clue what the story is about, me and Mrs Flibble tried to make up our own story about what it could possibly be about just by looking at the photos on the cover.

So, am I right in thinking that Sean Connery is an ex-basketball star who either suffers from amnesia or gets lost really easilly - and there's some young lad who is his day-carer?

Or am I wide of the mark - either way it's getting watched some time this week.

So, a good movie? I'd never heard of it until last night :eek:

[Michael Brooke]

Sean Connery is a novelist, and the young boy is a black kid from the wrong side of the tracks who apparently has amazing writing potential.

That's what I gleaned from the trailer, anyway, but wild horses would have to be <U>very</U> persuasive in order to get me to sit through this! Whatever happened to Gus Van Sant?

[Mr Flibble]

Thanks Michael - I think our version sounded better :(

Ah well - at least we didn't buy it, I'll do the usual 'yeah, thanks it was really good' speech when I return the DVD. ;)

[Ol' Blue Eyes]

I thought it was quite poor, I have to say. Stick with Good Will Hunting or Dead Poets Society. For a film about great writing, the script is pretty weak. At one point, when a character reads out a supposedly Pulitzer-quality essay, the music swells so you can't hear the words!

Since this, Gus Van Sant has supposedly made a very strange art movie that played at Cannes, called Gerry, which consists of Matt Damon and Casey Affleck wandering around the desert talking!

I'd love to see Connery as an amnesiac basketball player though. From Shcotland of courshe.

[Mr Flibble]

I'm going more and more off watching this :(

Perhaps I'd never heard of it for a good reason!

[the_edge30]

I saw this at the piccies a d thought it was a good film. Nothing special though, i wouldnt get it on dvd.

Good acting from connery and a good script!

Oh well, each to there own!

CHRIS!

[charlie angel]

I thought it was quite good, if somewhat overlong - I can always watch Connery & the youngster is fine.

As for sticking with Good Will Hunting, I'd rather stick forks into my legs ;)

[Noel M]

Wild horses dragged me to this one at the cinema (my girlfriend likes Sean Connery). I was pleasantly surprised. It's not a great film by any means - the plot is quite daft and unlikely and the characters cardboard thin, but the performances are likeable and it passes the time pleasantly. I'd give half an hour and if you like that, you'll stick with it.

[Mr Flibble]

Fair do's - I'll give it a watch and let you all know what I think of it :)

Just need to find time to watch it now :(

[Mike]

I thought it was predictable and mediocre. Having quite enjoyed Van Sant's "Psycho" remake I don't think he's done anything much since.

More to the point, when is Connery going to give a good performance again ? By my reckoning, it was 1991 in "The Russia House" that he actually did anything out of the ordinary.