Pay It Forward | 
 enlarge | Director: Mimi Leder
Actors: Kevin Spacey, Helen Hunt, Haley Joel Osment, Jay Mohr, James Caviezel
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  264 reviews
Sales Rank: 1046
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): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.6 x 0.6
MPN: 085391887720
ISBN: 0790756803
UPC: 085391887720
EAN: 9780790756806
ASIN: B00005B4BI
Theatrical Release Date: October 20, 2000
Release Date: May 15, 2001
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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
Inspired by an assignment from his teacher, a young boy attempts to make the world a better place by doing good deeds for three strangers, paying them \""forward\"" instead of paying someone back.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 3-FEB-2004
Media Type: DVD
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 Good Watch June 13, 2008
A very heart warming movie. A good watch for the whole family. My 9 year old boy had a few tears in his eyes. Not to many movies that you can sit with the family and watch.
GREQAT movie!! June 12, 2008
I saw this movie and decided to get one for each one of my family members. It is a GREAT movie with an awesome lesson. The seller had the items packed very well and they were shipped fast. TY
Pay It Forward June 7, 2008
This film is a must to see. I have seen it over and over again and I cry everytime, but it makes me feel good at the same time.
I can understand why a mouvement was started from this movie, and is still going on today. It also makes us, those who can, realise that we can sometimes do a little more to help someone without expecting to be paid back.
Pay It Forward June 4, 2008
I loved this movie! It shows how one act of kindness can turn into many great things to brighten a person's day. Yet there were parts that were a little hokey but overall it is a family friendly movie with many good points. I recommend this to all.
A "Must See" DVD! June 2, 2008
Many of us often wonder if we, as a single person, can change the world. This movie seeks to answer that question through the eyes of a pre-teen boy.
You will be brought to great highs and lows throughout this film, as it touches upon what it really means to be family, to break destructive habits, and how to make a difference in this world, regardless of how difficult that may seem.
This movie reminds us that that we are all one, no matter how different we may believe ourselves to be.
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