May 23, 2009
Cheese as heck, but has a good meaning.
Angie Dickinson, Haley Joel Osment, Helen Hunt
Eugene Simonet, an emotionally and physically scarred social studies teacher, challenges his young students to devise some type of philanthropic plan and put it into effect. A young boy, whose own lif...( read more
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DVD Release Date: May 15, 2001
Stats: 10,476 reviews
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Flixster Reviews (10,476)
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February 22, 2009This is an excellent peice of film right here! A movie that shows how to make a better world and how to make a better society! This movie was absolutley amazing and i recomend it to everyone!
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September 5, 2008a very very sweet film, you do just love the way this child acts, and how he affects so many people's lives.
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August 16, 2008The message of this movie is so beautiful, and I wish more people applied it to their every day lives. It still makes me cry whenever I watch it, even though I've seen it numerous times.
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May 17, 2008I read the book, which was AMAZING, and ever since then, seeing the movie has been on my "Wish List".
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November 7, 2009all of us are mix of bad and good. it's amazing how u can get the good out of people.
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November 2, 2009it is a bad premise which translates into a worse movie. Don't pay forward for this movie
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October 25, 2009Sometimes The Simplest Idea Can Make The Biggest Difference.
Awesome Movie, though very sad ending for my test. And something else, Liev Schreiber? Can someone tell me where Liev Schreiber appeared in this Movie?
Critic Reviews
June 4, 2001
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
January 1, 2000
A.O. Scott, The New York Times
So enamored of its own upbeat view of human nature that it expects you to overlook its stick-figure characters, its creaky plot machinery and its remorseless assault on your tear ducts. full review
January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
It tells a story that audience members will want to like, but it doesn't tell it strongly and cleanly enough; it puts too many loops into the plot, and its ending is shamelessly soapy for the material. full review
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August 31, 2008this movie was SO inspiring! i was didging it and feelin' the whole posative vibe and then the END happened and it was so sad that I don't want to pay it forward that much any more... it was so beautiful but really un-necissarily sad at the end. eh :p
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March 17, 2008not sure if this has been posted previously, but Liev Schreiber was not in this film, Flixster!
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August 6, 2007This is in my lifetime top 5 movies. The portrayal of all the lives entwined to come full circle was deeply heartfelt. I will forever Pay It Forward. I would like to distribute hundreds of copies to hundreds of people. eMpTy should not be a way of life.
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August 5, 2007This is the official “Pay It Forward” Web site
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March 13, 2007Wow. This movie was just gorgeous. I don't like Helen Hunt, but in this movie she was great. This was the first live action movie that I've ever cried in. (The very first movie being The Rugrats Movie, but we won't talk about that.) It was amazing. I still can't bring myself to think about it without tearing up. I thought of it recently because of something my dad found. It's called the Kindness Project. It's not exactly the same as Pay It Forward, but go to kindnessproject.com and you'll probably see some similarities. :) Great, great movie.
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December 19, 2006this is one of the greatest movies with the greatest idea...imagine if everybody in the world paid it forward it would be like heavan
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September 24, 2006Great Movie...Haley Joel Osment is one of the best actors of all time and acts exceptionally in this movie along with Helen Hunt and Kevin Spacey. A must See...
Add it to your "to see beofre your die" list...
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