After the disasterous reception to his shot-for-shot remake of Psycho, Gus Van Sant returned to territory closer to his previous Oscar success with 2000′s Finding Forrester. Another tale of a prodigy in academia, the film follows newcomer Rob Brown as a young writer who stumbles into the guidance of a famed recluse writer William Forrester, played by a late career Sean Connery.
Told in tropes made very familiar by the likes of Dead Poets Society and Scent of a Woman, Finding Forrester is ultimately a very dull version of a mentor/pupil story. And while the film’s moderate box office success made for a small comeback for Van Sant, stiff competition and a late release kept Sean Connery out of the Best Actor race. Now the film is most remembered for its catchphrase, crowed into consciousness in Connery’s brogue: “You’re the man now, dog!”
This episode, we also discuss Connery’s string of post-Oscar hits throughout the 90s and Van Sant’s tough-to-pin-down filmography. Topics also include Oscar presenters who make the envelope reveal more about themselves than the winner, Busta Rhymes, and our favorite pottymouth Shohreh Aghdashloo.
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