Finding Forrester gives director Gus Van Sant the ... Because he's in a feel-good movie, Jamal does exactly that, and after much huffing, puffing and sibilant s's from Connery, the pair hit ...

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.

Finding Forrester is a bewilderingly blatant attempt by director Gus van Sant to plagiarise his own movie, Good Will Hunting. This time, the boy genius is not a white mathematician but a black ...