Movie Reviews for Writers: Finding Forrester (part 1)

Fantastic cast. Fantastic script. Fantastic filming. It’s easy to fall in love with this amazing flick. 

It’s Cinderella for the art set. A young guy who’d never get invited to the ball gets his face time with the Prince of Words and learns that he’s better than the folks whose approval he was originally seeking, better than he thought he was or could be. 

Let’s start with Jamal. When he breaks into William Forrester’s apartment, he flees startled, only to find Forrester has edited and critiqued his work. For Jamal, that’s the beginning, his origin story, his triggering moment. Someone believed in him and convinced him to believe in himself. We all have them. For me it was a combination of my wife believing in me and an English professor (who also taught writing classes) who saw in me something I didn’t think I could do. Based on their confidence in my work, I entered a college short story contest and won first place — the first time I’d ever thought of entering such a contest. Needless to say, the trigger worked. My origin story was begun.

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