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Finding Forrester
MEANRANK
73/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1818
- IMDb #1516
- Google retired #48
- Rotten Tomatoes #1930
- Metacritic #2276
- Letterboxd #1945
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2483
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1747
- Metacritic Critics #2257
- Metacritic Audience #2385
- Criticker #1725
- Kinopoisk #534
- AlloCiné #1843
- Trakt #1355
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Lowest is Criticker on 49, highest is Google on 98.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A reclusive, Pulitzer Prize-winning author lives in isolation. He forms an unlikely friendship with a talented young basketball player from the Bronx who has a hidden gift for writing. The author becomes his mentor, encouraging him to pursue his intellectual talents and confront the racial prejudices he faces at a prestigious private school, while the young man helps the writer reconnect with the world.
Details
- Director
- Gus Van Sant
- Writer
- Mike Rich
- Studio
- Laurence Mark Productions, Fountainbridge Films, Columbia Pictures, Finding Forrester Productions
- Released
- 21 December 2000
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English, German
- Runtime
- 136 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $43.0M
- Box office
- $80.1M
- Awards
- 1 win, 1 nomination
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Awards & nominations
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| Satellite Award 2001 | Best Actor – Motion Picture | Nominee | |
| Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize 2001 | Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize | Winner |
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