Finding Forrester

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(2000)

Sean Connery, Rob Brown, F. Murray Abraham, Anna Paquin, Busta Rhymes, April Grace, Michael Pitt, Michael Nouri, Richard Easton. Jamal Wallace, an excellent basketball player with exceptional writing talent, is sent to a prestigious prep school in Manhattan to play ball. He befriends a reclusive old writer, William Forrester, which helps both realize their dreams.