Episode 90 - Finding Forrester

In 2000, Gus Van Sant released his second film about a sad older
man who mentors a promising young genius only to regain his zest
for life along the way, "Finding Forrester." They tried to
rekindle the magic from "Good Will Hunting," but they instead
ended up making a painfully uncomfortable white savior movie
strung together with every cornball trope known to man.


Sean Connery plays William Forrester, a reclusive writer who
authored a book that is now on the required reading list for
every high schooler (aka a J.D. Salinger stand-in). Forrester has
a habit of creepily monitoring the comings and goings of everyone
in his neighborhood through binoculars and has the ability to
read lips or something because he seems to know exactly what
everyone is up to. His peeping eventually manages to rouse some
local kids into breaking into his apartment to see what his deal
is.


Rob Brown plays Jamal Wallace, a 16-year-old genius from the
Bronx who started journaling regularly after his drug-addicted
dad walked out on his family. Jamal excels at basketball, but he
hides his intelligence and his ambitions to be writer from
everyone in his life until he accidentally drops the backpack
containing his journals while robbing the apartment of Connery's
character, the local ghostly hermit.


F. Murray Abraham plays Professor Robert Crawford, a bitter
teacher at a prestigious private school who has spent the past
several decades talking down to his students and viciously
punishing any dissenters. He is a crazy fanboy of Sean Connery's
character and, unbeknownst to him, Connery went out his way to
blackball him and prevent his book from being published which
made him into the monster that he has become.


Join us as we cringe our way though Sean Connery trying to win an
Oscar, debate whether or not Jamal is even good at basketball or
writing and unleash some of the worst Sean Connery impressions
every perpetrated on the general public.


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