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• Director: Gus Van Sant
• Release Date: 19 April 2001 (Hong Kong)
• Run Time: 136 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Drama  
• MPAA: Rated PG-13 for brief strong language and some sexual references.

Watch movie: Finding Forrester (2000)

Tagline: In an ordinary place, he found the one person to make his life extraordinary.

Trivia: The scenes in the Mailor-Callow School were actually filmed at Regis High School in Manhattan, an all-scholarship high school on the upper east side.  

Goofs: Continuity: In the basketball state championship, the opposing team scores, and then Mailer calls a time out. During the time out, the coach says "if we get a stop here, they'll have to put us on the line", yet Mailer should have had possession, thereby not necessitating a "stop".  

"Because of scoring exceptionaly high on a state wide standardized exam and being an exceptionally good basketball player Jamal Wallace is sent to a prestigious prep school in Manhattan. He soon befriends the reclusive writer, William Forrester. The friendship leads to William to overcome his reclusivness and for Jamal to overcome the racial prejudices and pursue his true dream - writing"