Mill Creek Entertainment will be celebrating the film career of the late Sean Connery on Apr. 13 with the Blu-ray release of director Gus Van Sant’s 2000 critically-acclaimed film, Finding Forrester, co-starring F. Murray Abraham, Anna Paquin, Busta Rhymes and Rob Brown (as Edgar Reade in the Blindspot television series, plus such films as Coach Carter, Stop-Loss, The Express, The Dark Knight Rises, etc.) in his film debut.
This, ironically, would turn out to be one of Connery’s final two feature film appearances (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen would be his last in 2003 … after much talk in the trade press about his frustration with this film he decided to retire) and Finding Forrester would be one of the final two commercial successes for auteur filmmaker Gus Van Sant as well, who shot to rock-star status with Drugstore Cowboy, My Own Private Idaho and Good Will Hunting.
The other success for Van Sant was Milk in 2008, starring Sean Penn. It would earn Van Sant his second Oscar-nomination for Best Director (Good Will Hunting in 1997 was his first) and be his last real commercial film … a string of “small” arthouse films have been his output during this past decade, with a re-teaming in 2012 with Matt Damon for Promised Land being something of a disappointment.
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