Finding Forester : Finding an Ending
Finding Forester concerns Jamal Wallace (Rob Brown), a young writer, who lives in the inner city Bronx "hood." The film opens almost like as if it is a horror film, where four friends dare one another to go and visit the neighborhood creepy-old-man's house. Jamal, curious as all great writers must be, takes the dare, and walks into the old man's apartment, has quite a scare and accidentally leaves his backpack behind. He returns the following day to retrieve it. Through the little peakhole in the door, the old man (Sean Connery) orders him to never return again. Jamal goes home to find the old man has read his stories and even commented the margins. Intrigued, Jamal returns to get more feedback from this ragged old hermit. The old man, William Forrester, suggests he write a 5,000 word essay on why he should "stay the hell away from my apartmen
t." Not one to turn down a challenge, Jamal returns the next day with the essay, and there begins an unlikely friendship between the two. Jamal also deals with problems at school. His teachers and faculty see him as an enigma. He tests well, but his grades have been low. He plays basketball with the grace and wisdom of Michael Jordan, and he writes like Hemingway, but he also has limited income and little opportunity. An upscale Academy wants him to join their school, all expenses paid. There, he befriends a young girl, Claire (Anna Paquin), and catches the skeptical eye of Professor Crawford (F. Murray Abraham). Meanwhile, Jamal receives writing lessons of life from Forrester, who has only written one book, but it has been studied in high school and colleges for the past 50 years. In turn for the writing lessons, Jamal teaches Forrester to step out of the apartme
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Approximate Word count = 584
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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