| Pay It Forward | 
 enlarge | Director: Mimi Leder
Actors: Kevin Spacey, Haley Joel Osment, Helen Hunt, Jay Mohr, James Caviezel
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  293 reviews
Sales Rank: 616
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 123
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.6 x 0.6
MPN: WARD18877D
ISBN: 0790756803
UPC: 085391887720
EAN: 9780790756806
ASIN: B00005B4BI
Theatrical Release Date: October 20, 2000
Release Date: May 15, 2001
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Condition: FACTORY SEALED.IN STOCK AND READY TO SHIP.
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Amazon.com
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 cliche 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
Product Description
How much impact can one heartfelt idea have? a junior-high students class project idea ignites a chain reaction of goodness and consequences. The boys idea: when someone does you a favor dont pay it back pay it forward. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 11/11/2008 Starring: Kevin Spacey Haley Joel Osment Run time: 123 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Mimi Leder
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 Great movie November 25, 2008
I don't know how I missed this one for so many years. Great movie. I love Kevin Spacey so I expected to like this movie. This is just a fantastic, inspiring story. The whole "pay it forward" idea is something that everyone should think about in their lives. If every time someone does something for you, you can turn around and do something for someone else, wow, what a different world we'd all live in.
Favorite Movie October 30, 2008
This is an amazing movie. The theme is that we are all connected in ways that we often don't even imagine. Recommend it highly.
Pay it forward. October 19, 2008
The movie was good, but I am not rating the movie, but the seller. The movie was delivered in excellent conditions, fast, and there were not problems. What could we need, beyond this? Fast, convenient, well priced. This seller I recommend.
Pay It Forward October 7, 2008
This is a fantastic movie. My Granddaughter just loves it and that is
why I bought it. It is a Christmas Present for her.
 If you could get past the swearing the concept is wonderful. September 27, 2008
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
If you could get past the swearing and the constant taking the Lord's name in vain the concept of Paying It Forward is wonderful. We do practice that in our home and Family. Every American citizen Paying It Forward would change the face/course of this Great Nation of ours. This is NOT a Family friendly movie at all because of the language and two bad scenes ... one in the beginning with dancers on poles in a bar setting and a bedroom scene. Shame on Amazon for billing this as a Family movie.
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