Feel-good movies - don't you love 'em ... to bond emotionally with the wise old master). Sad, isn't it? In Finding Forrester, Sean Connery plays a reclusive old writer who takes a brilliant ...

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 ...