Finding Forrester Page #3

Synopsis: Because of scoring exceptionally high on a statewide 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.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Gus Van Sant
Production: Columbia Pictures
  5 wins & 13 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Metacritic:
62
Rotten Tomatoes:
74%
PG-13
Year:
2000
136 min
$51,370,406
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Made this one engine before 1 920.

lt flew six miles up.

Well, Popp and his boys were

just getting started, man.

Made this one engine,

the 801 , World War ll...

...14 cylinders,

2300 horsepower, seven miles up.

With more time, they would have

bombed the sh*t out of England...

...and maybe even won the war.

That's where this comes from.

White propeller zipping

around a blue sky.

After the war, they couldn't

make plane engines anymore.

And that's when BMW gave some

serious thought to making cars.

Kind of like this one.

But you probably knew all that,

since you lease one.

Thanks for the history lesson.

No problem, man.

Messing with my stuff, man.

Hey....

The other night was--

lt was just this dare thing

me and my boys do.

Well, l was wondering maybe l could

bring you some more of my stuff...

...or maybe l could

write something else.

How about 5000 words on why you'll

stay the f*** out of my home?!

Come on, man, l know you in there.

Take your goddamn hand off my door!

l just came to drop off

that thing you asked me for.

What thing?

The 5000 words on why you wanted me

to stay out of your place.

That's kind of the way you said it.

Well, try remembering it

exactly as l said it.

Come on in, Jamal.

Hi, honey.

lt's okay.

Sit down.

Mrs. Wallace, Jamal. When we got

your recent test scores...

...we figured there may be some

interest from private schools.

Well, it turns out we were right.

Mr. Bradley.

Jamal, Mrs. Wallace,

my name's David Bradley.

l'm with the Mailor School

in Manhattan.

-Mailor? Mailor-Callow?

-That's right. You familiar with us?

Yeah.

Jamal, Mailor-Callow is not only

the best prep school in the city...

...it's one of the finest

private schools in the East.

Only the best go there.

You may know we're a few weeks

into our fall term...

...but every year

we hold some openings...

...while we wait

for test scores to come in.

Jamal, your test scores...

...to put it mildly,

caught our attention.

l'm here to see if you'd be

interested in attending our school.

Jamal, we know leaving

for another school...

...especially a private school,

is not gonna be easy.

But this isn't the right place

for you anymore.

Jamal, it's not a difficult choice.

Mr. Bradley...

...there's no way

that we could pay for this.

We're not asking you to.

When Dr. Simon said,

''Only the best go to Mailor''...

...he neglected to mention...

...that our excellence extends beyond

the classroom.

l figured that.

We thought you might.

Mrs. Wallace, about 40 of our students

have gone on to play college ball.

Three have made it

to the professional level.

We evaluated your play last year.

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Mike Rich

Michael A. "Mike" Rich (born 1959) is an American screenwriter best known for his writing on sports-related films. more…

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