Pay It Forward

Pay It Forward
by Mimi Leder

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Actor: Haley Joel Osment, Helen Hunt, James Caviezel, Jay Mohr, Kevin Spacey
Director: Mimi Leder
Brand: SPACEY,KEVIN
Producer: Jonathan Treisman
Producer: Mary McLaglen
Producer: Paddy Carson
Producer: Peter Abrams
Producer: Robert L. Levy
Writer: Catherine Ryan Hyde
Writer: Leslie Dixon
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 123 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-05-15
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Warner Home Video

DVD Reviews of Pay It Forward

DVD Review: Pay It Forward...enjoyable movie!
Summary: 5 Stars

I thought this was an enjoyable movie about how we can improve the lives of people we don't even know. Kevin Spacey,Helen Hunt and Haley Joel Osmont did a super job in this movie. Look for James Caviezel in this movie as Jerry prior to his role in the Passion of the Christ.Even Jon Bon Jovi is a part of the contest. This movies may not be for everyone with scenes of alcohol and violence but I thought it was a movie with a positive message. I enjoyed it!

DVD Review: Play it forward many times
Summary: 5 Stars

If you view this movie, you will want to go back and play it forward many times as time goes by, it is that good.

DVD Review: Pay It Forward
Summary: 5 Stars

Thisis one of the most heart felt movies I've ever seen. What the boy was trying to to change the world. It's just to bad he looses his life trying to help someone

DVD Review: Very moving and motivational
Summary: 5 Stars

This book has had a big impact of those of us who have read it. It is a wonderful story with a premise that would change the world for the better if everyone lived by it. Of course, I didn't like the ending; too heartbreaking. But, the story is wonderful and I have many stories where I have seen examples of "Paying it Forward". That means that this book is compelling and is worth the read. Everyone could learn from this story.

DVD Review: Great motivation and inspiration.
Summary: 5 Stars

After seeing this movie, I have tried to model my life after the philosophy of "paying it forward." This movie, for the kind hearted, will remind you of the great impact that just one good thing you can do for another can have. I think of this philosophy daily and try to do something for someone, anyone, almost everyday. This is a sensational movie and if more people imitated this movie our world would be a much better place to live in.

Description of Pay It Forward

Inspired by an assignment from his teacher, a young boy attempts to make the world a better place by doing good deeds for three strangers, paying them \""forward\"" instead of paying someone back.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 3-FEB-2004
Media Type: DVD

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 clich? 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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