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Critical Consensus

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starstarstarstar Michael O’Sullivan - Washington Post
starstarstar Wesley Morris - SF Chronicle
starstarstar Roger Ebert – Chicago Sun-Times
starstarstar Robert Horton - Film.com
starstarstar Mike Clark - USA Today
starstarstar Mark   Caro - Chicago Tribune
starstarstar Kenneth Turan - LA Times
starstarstar Joe Baltake - Sacramento Bee
starstarstar Jeff Vice - Deseret News
starstarstar James Berardinelli - ReelViews
starstarstar Rob Blackwelder - SPLICEDwire
starstarstar Berge Garabedian - JoBlo.com
starstarstar Jonathan Foreman - NY Post
starstar Arthur Lazere - culturevulture.net
starstar Stephen Holden - NY Times

“[M]anages to take the cerebral act of literary creation and make it exciting, sexy even. . . .[S]hould make any lover of the written word take heart”

- Michael O'Sullivan

“100 percent bogus, from its high-concept characters whose resemblance to real human beings is distant at best, to the 'lessons' it imparts on everything from courtship to writing”

- Stephen Holden

Finding Forrester
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A reclusive writer (Sean Connery) befriends an inner city high school basketball star (Robert Brown) in this drama about the power of words and friendship. F. Murray Abraham, Michael Pitt, Anna Paquin, Matt Damon, Joey Buttafuoco, April Grace, Busta Rhymes. Director: Gus Van Sant (2000, PG-13)
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