1926

A great film about a reluctant author who wants to be left alone.

Connery plays an author, William Forrester, who at one time won the Pulitzer. A young black high school teenager, Jamal Wallace, is pressured to break into Forrester's apartment which he succeeds in doing, but Forrester was there to keep him from stealing anything by shouting at the intruder. Wallace accidentally leaves his back pack full of his journals. Forrester, in response, "edits" all his journals.

Wallace was ashamed of what he did and attempts to apologize to Forrester. Forrester respond that Wallace should write about what Wallace had done. They develop a relationship concerning writing, ultimately leading to a confrontation with a lesser writer & instructor (Robert Crawford) at a local preparatory school.

In the end Forrester dies, thanking Wallace for his friendship which encouraged Forrester to see his home country of Scotland. ( )