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 ...

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.

And thus it is that Gus Van Sant's latest film, Finding Forrester, is one of a rare Hollywood breed: the inaction movie. Nothing wrong with that per se. But if you're going to show two people in a ...