482: Finding Forrester

I Hate It But I Love It

Kat Angus and Jocelyn Geddie

Comedy, Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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This week, we're talking about Gus Van Sant's Finding Forrester! We discuss a great cast, a paint by numbers plot, and of course, YTMND.

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0:00.0	I hate it!
0:02.0	I hate it! but I love it.
0:26.2	I hi-bi-la, everybody.
0:27.5	Hi-hi-Bail, what an all welcome to I hate it, but I love it.
0:29.9	I'm Jocelyn Getty.
0:30.8	I'm Kat Angus, and this is the podcast about all the pop culture you love and hate simultaneously.
0:34.9	This week we are talking about 2000s Finding Forrester. Yes, man,
0:39.4	I have to confess, when you put this on the schedule, I was like, whoa, I haven't thought
0:43.2	about this movie in 26 years. Why is this a love by hate for you? This is a movie that I remember
0:50.8	enjoying. Like, I don't think it was incredible, but I thought it was quite moving.
0:55.3	I thought it had some good performances and the chemistry between Connery and
1:00.0	Rob Brown is very good.
1:03.5	And, like, directed by Gus Van Sands and this, like, follow-up to Goodwill Hunting, like,
1:07.8	that's very exciting.
1:09.3	Watching it this time, I kind of had a much more cynical read of this whole movie.
1:13.5	Did you?
1:14.1	This movie, to me, really feels like a defense of the status quo to me.
1:19.3	Interesting.
1:21.0	And, honestly, it comes across as, like, a movie about racism written by a white person
1:27.2	who doesn't really want to talk about
1:28.5	racism.
1:29.4	Yeah, who wrote this movie?
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