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    Pay It Forward [Region 2]

    Director: Mimi Leder
    Actors: Kevin Spacey, Haley Joel Osment, Helen Hunt, Jay Mohr, James Caviezel
    Category: DVD

    Buy New: $6.20
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    New (3) Used (2) from $6.19

    Seller: pbshop
    Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars 329 reviews
    Sales Rank: 146307

    Format: PAL
    Languages: English (Subtitled), Arabic (Subtitled), Romanian (Subtitled), Bulgarian (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
    Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
    Region: 2
    Discs: 1
    Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
    Running Time: 123 Minutes
    Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
    Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6

    EAN: 7321900188777
    ASIN: B00005LDEM

    Theatrical Release Date: October 20, 2000
    Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

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    Editorial Reviews:

    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 cliché 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


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    5 out of 5 stars Wonderful movie, great message   January 30, 2010
    Rebecca L. Morse (Palm Springs, FL)
    I bought this movie to give as a gift. I own it and love it. I knew my friends and family who hadn't seen it would want to own it to watch again & again.


    5 out of 5 stars EVERYONE Needs to see   January 30, 2010
    S. Krammes (Tremont PA USA)
    This Movie is one of the Best Movies of All Time. I can watch it over and over again. Love It!!!


    5 out of 5 stars Pay It Forward   January 27, 2010
    M. Bredthauer (LOGAN, UT, US)
    This is such a spectacular movie! It arrived promptly and in the condition it was said to be in. I can trust this seller!


    3 out of 5 stars If you like this movie, try this...   January 14, 2010
    Hanley (Maryland)
    This story reminds me of Magnificent Obsession by Lloyd C Douglas.

    In that story, a young playboy, Merrick, while drinking too much, has an accident at a lake. The paramedics use the emergency equipment at the lakeside to save his life. Meanwhile, a famous neurosurgeon is at the same lake, but his life is not saved, since the equipment is already in use. When Merrick wakes up, he overhears the nurses saying what a shame that he survived and not the neurosurgeon Dr. Hudson, who has done so much for humanity. This makes him rethink his lifestyle, and do his best to replace the doctor that he deprived of life, and serve his fellow men in his place, partly because Dr. Hudson believed in anonymously helping others enriches and empowers the person who does so.

    It is an excellent and engrossing read. The book is better than the movie, which stars Rock Hudson and Jane Wyman, mostly because the couple is supposed to be college-age, and Hudson & Wyman are too old.



    1 out of 5 stars stupid   December 16, 2009
    D. Fraser
    1 out of 3 found this review helpful

    Sorry, I can only muster one word for my overall summation of this movie - STUPID.

    Beyond that, when the director TRIES to make the audience cry, most of the time the movie ends up being over the top and campy- I guess those two apply to this movie as well. Okay, it was stupid, campy, and over the top.

    Rent "Old Yeller" if you want to cry...


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