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'''Finding Forrester''' is a 2000 movie, written by Mike Rich and directed by Gus Van Sant, about a teenager, Jamal Wallace, played by Rob Brown, who is accepted into a prestigious private high school. He also befriends a reclusive writer, William Forrester, played by Sean Connery.
Anna Paquin, F. Murray Abraham and Busta Rhymes also star in supporting roles. Joey Buttafuoco and Matt Damon make brief cameo appearances. Principal photography was shot entirely in Manhattan , the Bronx, and Brooklyn (many Mailor Academy scenes were filmed at Regis High School on the Upper East Side of Manhattan), with some scenery and pick-up shots made in suburban Toronto, Ontario, during post-production.

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Connections to Salinger

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Connections to Salinger

There are some noticeable parallels between the lives of the American author J. D. Salinger and the Forrester movie character.

★ Both Forrester and Salinger are notoriously reclusive authors.

★ In the movie Forrester had at least one story published in The New Yorker. Salinger had several published.

★ In the movie Forrester has many unpublished works. Salinger is believed to have several novels and stories that are unpublished.

★ In the movie Forrester blocked a biography of himself that the character Prof. Robert Crawford was going to have published. Salinger did the same thing through a lawsuit against Ian Hamilton.

★ Screenwriter Mike Rich mentions that it was the apparently unsociable traits common to some revered American authors (including Salinger and Thomas Pynchon) which inspired the story [1]

★ Both also only wrote one book that is wildly popular Salinger's Catcher In the Rye and Forrester's Avalon Landing

See also

★ YTMND - A user generated content website. The letters are an acronym for "You're the man now, dog," a line stated by William Forrester in the film.

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★ Finding Forrester mistakes, goofs and bloopers

★ Regis High School

★ Finding Forrester - Photos