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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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- 2000-10-20
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".
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 .
Mar 19, 2018 · Learn the definition and history of the phrase pay it forward, which means doing a good deed for someone else instead of repaying the original kindness. Find out how it is used in literature, film, and everyday life.
Oct 20, 2000 · Haley Joel Osment, the gifted young actor from " The Sixth Sense ," stars as Trevor, a resourceful latchkey kid whose father has disappeared and whose mother, Arlene ( Helen Hunt ), works two jobs as a Vegas cocktail waitress. She's a recovering alcoholic with a few relapses still to go.
Pay It Forward. 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...
A young boy tries to change the world by doing good deeds for three people who must pay it forward to three others. His plan affects the lives of his teacher, his mother, a homeless man, and many others in a chain reaction of kindness.
