Trivia for Finding Forrester
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- Star Rob Brown auditioned as an extra for this movie. Citing he needed the money to pay for his $300 mobile phone bill. Gus Van Sant got to look at him and invited him to play the role of Jamal and eventually handed the role to him having seen his natural ability in acting.
- The character of Robert Crawford is actually based on a real life Robert Crawford. He teaches history at a private school outside Boston.
- The movie that Forrester was watching when Jamal came to the apartment was The Big Heat, a film in 1953, starring Glenn Ford.
- While Jamal was checking out Forrester’s data at a school’s computer, the data he was actually reading was Sean Connery’s real life data.
- Cameo: Matt Damon appears as a lawyer. He starred Gus Van Sant’s hit film, Good Will Hunting in 1997.