Вспомнила про Гаса Ван Санта ... захотелось посмотреть что-нибудь вдохновляющее, вроде "Уилла Хантинга".
Нашла этот чудесный фильм! Ком в горле и глаза в слезах.



In addition to being based on J.D. Salinger, William Forrester is also heavily inspired by John Kennedy Toole.
Toole wrote the book "A Confederacy of Dunces", a mysteriously autobiographical book, but when no one would publish it, he gassed himself to death in his car. Years later, the book was published and won the Pulitzer Prize.

Star Rob Brown got the role after initially auditioning as an extra. Brown had no aspirations of being an actor and was only hoping to make some money to pay his $300 cell phone bill. But Gus Van Sant invited him to audition for the role of Jamal and liked his natural ability.

When Jamal checks out the data on Forrester with the school's computer, the facts he discovers are actually Sean Connery's real life data.

The character of Robert Crawford is based on a real life Robert Crawford, who teaches history at Phillips Academy Andover, a private school outside of Boston.

In the scene where Busta Rhymes is eating dinner with his mother, he is wearing a Bushi T-shirt. Bushi is Busta's new clothing line.

During filming, it was discovered that Sean Connery could not type. When you see Forrester's hands on the keys, they are the hands of someone else.