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Pay It Forward is a 2000 American romantic drama film directed by Mimi Leder. The film is based loosely on the novel of the same name by Catherine Ryan Hyde. It is set in Las Vegas, and it chronicles 11- to 12-year-old Trevor McKinney's launch of a goodwill movement known as "pay it forward".
Oct 20, 2000 · Pay It Forward: Directed by Mimi Leder. With Kevin Spacey, Helen Hunt, Haley Joel Osment, Jay Mohr. A young boy attempts to make the world a better place after his teacher gives him that chance.
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- Drama
- Mimi Leder
- 2000-10-20
pay it forward. idiom. Add to word list. to do something kind or useful for someone because someone else has done something kind or useful for you : We are so thankful for their kindness and generosity and we promise to pay it forward.
Pay it forward is an expression for describing the beneficiary of a good deed repaying the kindness to others rather than paying it back to the original benefactor. It is also called serial reciprocity . The concept is old, but the particular phrase may have been coined by Lily Hardy Hammond in her 1916 book In the Garden of Delight. [1] .
The story of a social studies teacher who gives an assignment to his junior high school class to think of an idea to change the world for the...
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- Mimi Leder
- PG-13
- Kevin Spacey
Young Trevor McKinney, troubled by his mother's alcoholism and fears of his abusive but absent father, is caught up by an intriguing assignment from his new social studies teacher, Mr. Simonet. The assignment: think of something to change the world and put it into action.
Academy Award winners Helen Hunt and Kevin Spacey star with Haley Joel Osment as a struggling single mother, a social studies teacher whose placid life is in...
