Pay It Forward Mimi Leder Digital Life VHS

Pay It Forward
starring: Kevin Spacey, Helen Hunt, Haley Joel Osment, Jay Mohr, James Caviezel
directed by: Mimi Leder

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Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780790756790
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 079075679X
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: October 23, 2001
Running Time: 123 minutes
Sales Rank: 7023
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: October 20, 2000

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Social studies teacher Eugene Simonet (Kevin Spacey) gives his class an assignment: look at the world around you and fix what you don't like. One student comes up with an idea: #1 it is something that really helps people; #2 something they can't do it by themselves; and #3 do it for them, then do it for three other people.

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Pay It Forward is a multi-level marketing scheme of the heart. Beginning as a seventh-grade class assignment to put into action an idea that could change the world, young Trevor McKinney (Haley Joel Osment) comes up with a plan to do good deeds for three people who then by way of payment each must do good turns for three other people. These nine people also must pay it forward and so on, ad infinitum. If successful, the resulting network of do-gooders ought to comprise the entire world. Trevor's attempts to get the ball rolling include befriending a junkie (James Caviezel) and trying to set up his recovering-alcoholic mother (Helen Hunt) with his burn-victim teacher (Kevin Spacey), who posed the assignment.

While this could have turned into unmitigated schmaltz, the acting elevates this film to mitigated schmaltz. By turns powerful and measured, the performances of Spacey, Hunt, and Osment can't make up for the many missteps in a screenplay that sanitizes the look of the lower-middle class and expects us to believe that homeless alcoholics and junkies speak in the elevated manner of grad students. (Can that really be Angie Dickinson as Hunt's dispossessed mother? Yes, it is!) The germ of the story is a good one, though, and one may wonder how it would have been handled by the likes of Frank Capra, who could balance sentiment with humor. But clearly Capra would never have let the ending of his version to take the nosedive into cliché and pathos that director Mimi Leder has allowed in this film. More than a few viewers will also recognize that Leder has blatantly borrowed her final image from Field of Dreams, where its intended effect was more keenly and honestly felt. --Jim Gay

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- If Only!!!
This is one of the best movies and picniples of all time. If only 10% of people in the world followed it the impact would be incredible. Granparents,Parents Chidren anyone but several copies and send them on to others.

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- A Movie That Will Inspire You to do Good to Others
Oh man! This is a such a powerful movie. Starring Kevin Spacey, Helen Hunt, Haley Joel Osment (AI, Sixth Sense), and James Caviezel. To have the noble idea started by a little kid makes it more compelling. He came from a broken family with only her mom to support him. Reminds me of the song "You And Me Against The World" by Paul Williams. Her mom (Helen Hunt) struggles everyday between alcoholism and survival for herself and her family. When the teacher (Spacey) gave an assignment to his students, Trevor came up with a simple idea. Paying a favor not back, but forward, and not to one person but to three. Not only he gained the attention of his teacher, but also his mother who is the most important person in his life. Initially he thought it was a failure. But soon, the idea spread from city to city and then the whole nation. It became a crusade and changed the world around him. It is very inspiring that ... Read More

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- Good Watch
A very heart warming movie. A good watch for the whole family. My 9 year old boy had a few tears in his eyes. Not to many movies that you can sit with the family and watch.

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- GREQAT movie!!
I saw this movie and decided to get one for each one of my family members. It is a GREAT movie with an awesome lesson. The seller had the items packed very well and they were shipped fast. TY

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