- Directed : Gus Van Sant
- Produced : Sean Connery, Laurence Mark
- Written : Mike Rich
- Starring : Sean Connery, Rob Brown, F. Murray Abraham, Anna Paquin
- Released : December 19, 2000
- Distributed :Columbia Pictures
- Running Time : 136 minutes
Finding Forrester is film about Jamal Wallace (Rob Brown), a black American teenager lives in a poor neighborhood who is very gifted in writing and good at playing basketball. By chance, Jamal becomes a friend of a writer, William Forrester (Sean Connery), besides that Forrester was also interested by Jamal’s talent in writing but Jamal still had to be corrected.
As the time goes by, Jamal had been invited to join into a prestigious private high school, Mailor-Callow, because the result of his SAT test which has scored unusually high has caught thats school attention. Because of the assignment, Jamal asked Forrester to keep helping him for his writing. Forrester accepted it, consider there is something that he can trust Jamal on for not to say anything to anybody about the real he is.
Something unexpected happened. Jamal tells Forrester what he has done and asks him to defend him, but Forrester is angry at Jamal for breaking his promise and refuses. But then this thing can be fixed. And for some reasons, Forrester thanks Jamal for all his help and letting him experience life again.
