Finding Forrester (2000)

Gus van Sant tells the story of a young African American man named Jamal who confronts his talents while living on the streets of the Bronx. He accidentally runs into an old writer named Forrester who discovers his passion for writing. With help from his new mentor Jamal receives a scholarship to a private school.

• based on novel
• becoming an adult
• dying and death
• father figure
• friendship
• high school
• idol
• intellectually gifted
• literature
• literature competition
• manuscript
• mentor
• plagiarism
• poetry
• private school
• professor
• pulitzer prize
• scholarship
• scotland
• seclusion
• sibling relationship
• unsociability
• upper class