Finding Forrester is a bewilderingly blatant attempt by director Gus van Sant to plagiarise his own movie, Good Will Hunting. This time, the boy genius is not a white mathematician but a black ...

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.

Sad, isn't it? In Finding Forrester, Sean Connery plays a reclusive old writer who takes a brilliant black teenager under his wing. Connery and a cool Miles Davis soundtrack are strong plus points ...