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Finding Forrester Starring: Sean Connery, Robert Brown Director: Gus Van Sant Opens: Dec. 19 in N.Y. and L.A.; wide...
...mentoring relationship develops between the cranky old writer and the very bright teenager. The film's twists and turns are as predictable as the patronizing racism at the private school that grants the boy a scholarship. Something more surprising might have been made of this odd couple, but Van Sant, emptily employing the realist manner of his early films, is goodwill hunting in all the wrong places...
...parallel universe, where for years he's been married to Kate (Leoni), the sweetheart he left behind to be a zillionaire. In this nightmare world he has two squalling kids, a cruddy job selling tires in his father-in-law's store, a bunch of bowling buddies, an old van, and - can it get worse for this chic Manhattanite? - he lives in New Jersey. These days, the only way Hollywood can tell a story of ordinary people struggling with the awesome challenges and compromises of family life is to reduce them to sugarific fantasy. And, further, to view life...
...emerge from underneath an avalanche of work this week like Rip Van Winkle awakening to find his world spun topsy-turvy, I stand marveling at at the headlines. The man who undisputably lost the popular vote--and most likely the Florida vote once all the ballots are counted by the irrespressible medi--has won the Presidency.What the hell just happened...
...learn anything from Finding Forrester that can’t be gleaned from the broad outlines of a schmaltzy CBS movie-of-the-week. I went into the film anticipating a thematic brother to the observant Good Will Hunting, which lifted Finding Forrester’s director, Gus Van Sant, to fame. Observant, however, is a poor word to describe Finding Forrester, a film deathly afraid of being overly cerebral in word or action. Instead, the film’s creators continue Hollywood’s long trend of patronizing the general public, making unhealthy use of a popular mainstream...