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Released in 2000 and running a little long at 123 minutes, this is the sort of film you see and are glad it was made but disappointed that you wanted so much more.Sadly only 12 years later you cannot re-make this film because we are at war and "Trust"and "Kindness"are always casualties in conflict.This film is NOT about was but rather a idealism that you lose today.Anyway,I took 1 star off for the length and wanting more.
I loved all the cast but thought Jay Mohr as the reporter Chris Chandler,a major character that follows the story and ties it all together,was in over his head, with the rest of the cast. However Jon Bon Jovi as typical white trash loser Ricky McKinney,proved he is more than a pretty boy rocker.A+ for him.However the real 3 stars are Kevin Spacey as a disfigured teacher,Eugene Simonet,Helen Hunt as a low class but good at heart mother,Arlene McKinney and Haley Joel Osment as her idealist son Trevor McKinney.
Honorable mention to Jim Caviezel as Jerry ,a troubled junkie.The story gets muddled at times but basically young Trevor believes you can change the world one person at a time and to do this three times change will come IF those three "pay it forward"three at a time.Sort of a GOOD top down "Ponzi"helping hand.Sadley the film is set in the outskirts of Las Vegas and well you just know bad things happens with losers in this sort of dead end environment.It does and the ending rivals Brians song as a tear jerker.Poor Trevor is stabbed and dies trying to help another kid,his third pay it forward,by a bully.That IS timely today even if the idea of paying it forward only lives in insurance TV commercials.
Trailer follows the pix and a IMDB summary is below.A must see for your humanity.
Young Trevor McKinney, troubled by his mother's alcoholism and fears of his abusive but absent father, is caught up by an intriguing assignment from his new social studies teacher, Mr. Simonet. The assignment: think of something to change the world and put it into action. Trevor conjures the notion of paying a favor not back, but forward--repaying good deeds not with payback, but with new good deeds done to three new people. Trevor's efforts to make good on his idea bring a revolution not only in the lives of himself, his mother and his physically and emotionally scarred teacher, but in those of an ever-widening circle of people completely unknown to him. Written by Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pCtXRP1edo
I loved all the cast but thought Jay Mohr as the reporter Chris Chandler,a major character that follows the story and ties it all together,was in over his head, with the rest of the cast. However Jon Bon Jovi as typical white trash loser Ricky McKinney,proved he is more than a pretty boy rocker.A+ for him.However the real 3 stars are Kevin Spacey as a disfigured teacher,Eugene Simonet,Helen Hunt as a low class but good at heart mother,Arlene McKinney and Haley Joel Osment as her idealist son Trevor McKinney.
Honorable mention to Jim Caviezel as Jerry ,a troubled junkie.The story gets muddled at times but basically young Trevor believes you can change the world one person at a time and to do this three times change will come IF those three "pay it forward"three at a time.Sort of a GOOD top down "Ponzi"helping hand.Sadley the film is set in the outskirts of Las Vegas and well you just know bad things happens with losers in this sort of dead end environment.It does and the ending rivals Brians song as a tear jerker.Poor Trevor is stabbed and dies trying to help another kid,his third pay it forward,by a bully.That IS timely today even if the idea of paying it forward only lives in insurance TV commercials.
Trailer follows the pix and a IMDB summary is below.A must see for your humanity.
Young Trevor McKinney, troubled by his mother's alcoholism and fears of his abusive but absent father, is caught up by an intriguing assignment from his new social studies teacher, Mr. Simonet. The assignment: think of something to change the world and put it into action. Trevor conjures the notion of paying a favor not back, but forward--repaying good deeds not with payback, but with new good deeds done to three new people. Trevor's efforts to make good on his idea bring a revolution not only in the lives of himself, his mother and his physically and emotionally scarred teacher, but in those of an ever-widening circle of people completely unknown to him. Written by Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
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