Feel-good pabulum about the unlikely friendship between an African-American
high-school student from the Bronx and the aging, reclusive novelist who
recognizes and helps nurture the young man's potential. Jamal Wallace (Rob
Brown) lives in the projects with his mother; his older brother (Busta Rhymes)
works in the Yankee Stadium parking lot and dreams of becoming a rapper. Jamal
loves reading and keeps copious journals, but downplays his intelligence to
fit in with his friends, whose interests run more to basketball and girls. The
kids also gossip about the neighborhood eccentric they call "The Window" and
"The Ghost," who never leaves his a...
Released:
2000
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
136 mins