SYNOPSIS

“For if we wait too long, we risk learning that life is not a game that is won… or lost… it is a game that, too often, simply isn’t played.” 

He was a vibrant personality who wrote a Pulitzer Prize-winning classic novel four decades ago. And that’s the last the world heard of William Forrester. 

That is until Jamal Wallace, a brash 16-year-old with writing aspirations of his own, cracks the veneer of Forrester’s sheltered existence and re-ignites the dreams of this literary legend in the winter of his life.

Known as the neighborhood recluse, silver-haired Forrester is a man whose mystery and eccentricity border on the mythical. When Jamal – a talented African-American scholar-athlete who is recruited by an elite Manhattan prep school for his brilliance on and off the basketball court— sneaks into his apartment and accidentally leaves behind his backpack full of writings, they both get something unexpected in return. Compelled to look past skin color and suppositions, Jamal encounters not only his first fan, but a mentor who will challenge and change him forever, and Forrester has his first reason in years to emerge from his self-imposed solitude.


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RELEASE DATE

February 23, 2001

DIRECTOR

Gus Van Sant

WRITER

Mike Rich

COMPANY

Columbia Pictures

GENRE

Drama

CERT

12

RUNTIME

136 minutes

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