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Message: [QUOTE="HuskyHawk, post: 3753272, member: 1414"] [B]Finding Forrester[/B]. (2000). Directed by Gus Van Sant and bearing substantial similarities to his [I]Good Will Hunting.[/I] Stars include Sean Connery and F. Murray Abraham. Rob Brown is excellent in the lead role, but was a relative unknown at the time. I’m not sure how I missed this movie the first time around. My daughter was asked to watch it for school and so we did as a family. Jamal Wallace is a High School basketball player in the Bronx. He is a middling student, but a teacher believes he is very talented and is essentially hiding it to fit in. He seems to do C work on purpose. I don’t want to spoil the plot but circumstances lead him to meet an older man who watches him and his friends play basketball from an apartment window. You can expect a Good Will Hunting style mentor relationship and progression. But it is really well done. Connery is a truly interesting character and the importance of the relationship goes both ways. [/QUOTE]