Sean Connery sat down with WFAA to talk about taking on the role of William Forrester in the 2000 film Finding Forrester. American school teacher Marc Fogel released from prison in Russia I had 22 ...

This time, the boy genius is not a white mathematician but a black writer (Rob Brown), and his out-of-school mentor is not a psychoanalyst but an older author, William Forrester (Sean Connery).

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.