Finding Forrester
original film poster
Directed by	Gus Van Sant
Produced by	Sean Connery Laurence Mark Rhonda Tollefson
Written by	Mike Rich
Starring	Sean Connery Rob Brown F. Murray Abraham Anna Paquin
Cinematography	Harris Savides
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date(s)	2000
Running time	136 min.
IMDb profile

Finding Forrester is a 2000 movie, written by Mike Rich and directed by Gus Van Sant, about a teenager, Jamal Wallace, played by Rob Brown, who is accepted into a prestigious private high school. He also befriends a reclusive writer, William Forrester, played by Sean Connery. Image File history File links Finding_forrester. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Laurence Mark (born in New York City) is an American film producer. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born 25 August 1930) is an Academy Award-winning Scottish actor and producer who is perhaps best known as the first actor to portray James Bond in cinema, starring in seven Bond films. ... Rob Brown was born in Harlem and raised in Brooklyn, New York, where he graduated from Poly Prep in 2002. ... Fahrid Murray Abraham[1] (born October 24, 1939) is an American actor. ... Anna Helene Paquin (born July 24, 1982) is an Academy Award-winning and Golden Globe Award-nominated New Zealand actress who was born in Canada. ... Harris Savides is a contemporary American cinematographer. ... The Columbia Pictures logo from 1993 to the present Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. ... This is a list of film-related events in 2000. ... This is a list of film-related events in 2000. ... “Moving picture” redirects here. ... Sample from a screenplay, showing dialogue and action descriptions. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Rob Brown was born in Harlem and raised in Brooklyn, New York, where he graduated from Poly Prep in 2002. ... Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born 25 August 1930) is an Academy Award-winning Scottish actor and producer who is perhaps best known as the first actor to portray James Bond in cinema, starring in seven Bond films. ...

Anna Paquin, F. Murray Abraham and Busta Rhymes also star in supporting roles. Joey Buttafuoco and Matt Damon make brief cameo appearances. Principal photography was shot entirely in Manhattan , the Bronx, and Brooklyn (many Mailor Academy scenes were filmed at Regis High School on the Upper East Side of Manhattan), with some scenery and pick-up shots made in suburban Toronto, Ontario, during post-production. Anna Helene Paquin (born July 24, 1982) is an Academy Award-winning and Golden Globe Award-nominated New Zealand actress who was born in Canada. ... Fahrid Murray Abraham[1] (born October 24, 1939) is an American actor. ... Trevor Tahiem Smith, Jr. ... Joseph Joey Buttafuoco (born March 11, 1956) made headlines in 1992 for his affair with a then underage Amy Fisher, who subsequently shot Joeys wife, Mary Jo Buttafuoco, in the face. ... Matthew Paige Matt Damon (born October 8, 1970) is an American screenwriter and actor. ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the state of New York and the entire United States. ... The Bronx is one of the five boroughs of United States. ... For other meanings, see Brooklyn (disambiguation). ... Regis High School is an all-scholarship, Jesuit, college preparatory school for young Catholic men. ... The Upper East Side at Sunset The Upper East Side is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, between Central Park and the East River. ... Template:Hide = Motto: Template:Unhide = Diversity Our Strength Image:Toronto, Ontario Location. ...

Connections to Salinger

There are some noticeable parallels between the lives of the American author J. D. Salinger and the Forrester movie character. Jerome David Salinger (born January 1, 1919) is an American author best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye, as well as his reclusive nature; he has not published any new work since 1965 and has not granted a formal interview since 1980. ...

• Both Forrester and Salinger are notoriously reclusive authors.
• In the movie Forrester had at least one story published in The New Yorker. Salinger had several published.
• In the movie Forrester has many unpublished works. Salinger is believed to have several novels and stories that are unpublished.
• In the movie Forrester blocked a biography of himself that the character Prof. Robert Crawford was going to have published. Salinger did the same thing through a lawsuit against Ian Hamilton.
• Screenwriter Mike Rich mentions that it was the apparently unsociable traits common to some revered American authors (including Salinger and Thomas Pynchon) which inspired the story [1]
• Both also only wrote one book that is wildly popular Salinger's Catcher In the Rye and Forrester's Avalon Landing

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See also

• YTMND - A user generated content website. The letters are an acronym for "You're the man now, dog," a line stated by William Forrester in the film.

YTMND, an initialism for Youre The Man Now Dog, is an online community centered around the creation of hosted web pages (known within the community as YTMNDs) featuring a juxtaposition of a single image or a simple slideshow, which may be animated and/or tiled along with optional large...

External links

• Finding Forrester at the Internet Movie Database
• Finding Forrester mistakes, goofs and bloopers
• Regis High School
• Finding Forrester - Photos