Pay It Forward

Pay It Forward

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Pay It Forward

Angie Dickinson, Haley Joel Osment, Helen Hunt, James Caviezel, Jay Mohr

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  read more... )e is far from rosy, takes the assignment to heart and invents the "pay-it-forward" philosophy, which encourages paying back favors in advance. The whole town embraces the boy's concept, and random acts of kindness become a community pastime. Though celebrated by acquaintances and the media, the boy struggles at home with his alcoholic mother, and the only one who recognizes his lonely fight is Eugene Simonet.

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  • May 23, 2009
    Cheese as heck, but has a good meaning.
  • February 22, 2009
    This 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!
  • September 5, 2008
    a very very sweet film, you do just love the way this child acts, and how he affects so many people's lives.
  • August 16, 2008
    The 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.
  • May 17, 2008
    I read the book, which was AMAZING, and ever since then, seeing the movie has been on my "Wish List".

    Yes, the book is way better, of course, but the movie is surprisingly good.
  • January 6, 2010
    Kicks it off well, but the ending of this movie feels like it was written to squeak those soggy little tears out of the viewers' eyes. Regardless, Haley Joel Osment gives a wonderful performance as well as Kevin Spacey and Helen Hunt. Despite it's ending, I enjoyed the first half...( read more) of this melodrama enough to say that this movie passes in my books.
  • January 1, 2010
    was really good, and had a sad ending. I liked his idea though
  • December 24, 2009
    I like the whole movie but the end was a coward attemp to gain sympathy.
  • December 20, 2009
    this one i can't get enough of.... all charactor in this movie is brilliant...
  • December 19, 2009
    This is a grat movie, it realy touches your soul

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