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Dominican Rep. Pay It Forward
38,800
Drama
A young boy (Haley Joel Osment) is challenged by his teacher (Kevin Spacey) to make the world a better place. The boy comes up with the "pay it forward" concept, in which you do a good deed for someone, who then does a good deed for three other people, rather than "payback" the favor. The boy starts by taking in a homeless junkie, much to the surprise of his mother (Helen Hunt).
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"The kind of film you've got to admire simply for the way it squares its shoulders and plunges into a message of unfashionable idealism." | POS |
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"The combination of restrained writing and direction and top-of-the-line acting is enough to make even confirmed agnostics want to believe in this unashamed fairy tale" | POS |
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"Pushes and pushes and pushes the emotional throttle without respite" | NEG |
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"An unusual film that intelligently avoids numerous potential pitfalls even if its central earnestness is ultimately inescapable" | POS |
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"The truth is that this programmatic Christian parable is pretty unbearable--glib, often myopic, and reeking with sentimentality and self-pity." | NEG |
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"Had enough grit to scratch its way through my cynical defenses, at least until its grotesque ending. But that capper isn't an aberration -- it's the logical extension of the movie's grandiose ambitions" | NEU |
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