The Forger (2012) 5.4
A teenager wanders into Carmel, California, where he is soon introduced to the art-forgery community. Director:Lawrence Roeck |
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The Forger (2012) 5.4
A teenager wanders into Carmel, California, where he is soon introduced to the art-forgery community. Director:Lawrence Roeck |
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Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Lauren Bacall | ... | ||
Josh Hutcherson | ... | ||
Alfred Molina | ... | ||
Billy Boyd | ... | ||
Dina Eastwood | ... | ||
Adam Godley | ... | ||
Scott Eastwood | ... | ||
Alexandra Carl | ... | ||
Hayden Panettiere | ... | ||
Tricia Helfer | ... |
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Kim Myers | ... | ||
Jansen Panettiere | ... | ||
José Zúñiga | ... | ||
Zuhair Haddad | ... | ||
Robert Harvey | ... |
Joshua, a teenager with a drugged-out mother on the run, wanders into the affluent community of Carmel, California. After getting himself into trouble, the authorities try to track down his mother. But in the meantime, a successful artist/businessman offers to take in Joshua and let him have a chance at a good life. His motives are questionable considering his line of business and how he plans to use Joshua's artistic talents, but Joshua has met a girl and he's not sure if the money is worth selling off his morals. Written by napierslogs
This movie does for forgers what the movie Hackers did for hackers, which is attempt to make them look like the mainstream folks in the audience. Oh, sure, they had silly clothes and some goofy quirks but the bottom line was that they were like everyone else, only more so. And just as Hackers was nonsense, so is Forgers. Real hackers didn't sit around bragging about their computers' specs like a bunch of boy-racers talking about their engines.
In fact the Forgers characters are even worse, depicted as talentless con-men or child prodigies who can pick up a brush and dash off a flawless imitation of an old master in a few hours in a gloomy basement.
For a real insight to the persona of an art forger look up the career of Eric Hebborn, who really did paint stuff that was often mistaken for very valuable pictures. But he never became wealthy as a result of his work and he was not 15 years old at his peak.
Since the story is rather thin, the producers have made it more relevant to the intended audience by adding a drippy love story and a maudlin tale of parental abandonment, made even sillier by casting a 20 year old man for the part of a young boy. He is supposedly a high school freshman and at one point a character states that he thought the boy was "maybe 12 years old". There is no way Mr. Hutcherson would be mistaken for a 12 year old child.
One wonders why the writers didn't simply make the character a college dropout. The story would have been just as effective and the romantic dialog would have been more believable. The screenplay has all the traits of a work by a committee. Adults will probably find this movie tedious and rather predictable.Younger viewers may enjoy the romantic aspects of the story.