PRESS LINKS and FUN QUOTES

Catherine Ryan Hyde website:

http://www.catherineryanhyde.com

SCREENIT.COM Entertainment Reviews for Parents.

http://www.screenit.com/movies/2000/pay_it_forward.html

Salon.com:By David Thomson  
(A review of Arlene and Eugene's love scene.)

http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2000/10/13/thomson_pay_it_forward/index.html

Washington Post review by Rita Kempley

http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43878-2000Oct19.html

Washington Post review by Desson Howe

http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44512-2000Oct19.html

Washington Post review by Jane Horwitz

http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44516-2000Oct19.html

The Sun review by Chris Kaltenbach
Sun Film Critic

http://citysearch.sunspot.net/E/M/BALMD/0000/12/06/cs1.html

Interesting editorial in Washington Post (scroll down)

http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11538-2000Nov3.html

Interview with Kevin

http://www.darkhorizons.com/news8/spacey.htm

Points of Light Foundation press release 

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/001016/dc_points_.html

www.pointsoflight.org

"I don't want to spend another second of wasted air, you beautiful, lovely, difficult, hilarious woman. Please don't let me stay trapped in here forever. I'm so exhausted from being so afraid." ~ Kevin Spacey*

*(Deleted PIF ad-lib as quoted in the Wall Street Journal. Maybe it was bad for the movie, but he can say it to me anytime.)

Quote of the day: November 17, 2000 Entertainment Weekly, critics' response to letters to the editor about her PIF review:  

Our Critic Responds Calling critics with whom one disagrees names is a time-honored activity for passionate filmgoers; now let's broaden the conversation. Topic A: The tearjerker or feel-good "message" movie that jerks out tears by rubbing onions in our eyes - then lectures us about how we ought to feel grateful because there are poor people in the world who can't afford onions so let's all start planting gardens - is the movie that covertly thinks we're all too dumb to feel grateful otherwise. Topic B: Like people who, despite reasonable warnings, break their necks by recklessly speeding down mountainsides because the activity looked cool on a TV car commercial, folks who ignore spoiler warnings and then complain that the ending is spoiled are ... just naturally injury prone. Discuss. - Lisa Schwarzbaum 

Quote of the day: Actress Helen Hunt pours cold water on reports linking her to Kevin Spacey, her co-star in this picture Pay It Forward: "I don't think so. And I should know. ... But (we're) good friends though." - Montreal Gazette gossip page

Entertainment Weekly home video review

PAY IT FORWARD - Haley Joel Osment, Kevin Spacey (2000, Warner, 123 minutes, PG-13, alson DVD)With its A-list cast (two Oscar winners and a nominee) and New Agey concept, this romantic drama about an altruistic seventh grader, his floozy mom (Helen Hunt), and his scarred teacher stirred up several hives' worth of prerelease buzz - then got stung by critics and audiences.  But on the boob tube, land of the TV movie, its melodramatic lapses seem less glaring; instead, the actors shine, and you get a glimpse of the small, affecting movie this would-be hit could have been.
Grade: B

Entertainment Weekly, May 18 issue, page 62.

THE NEW YORK TIMES Video Review

May 18, 2001
by Peter M. Nichols

Pay It Forward

Young Trevor (Haley Joel Osment) has the idea: do a good turn for three people, who will do one for three others, and so on. When a cynical reporter (Jay Mohr) profits from such a favor — a stranger suddenly gives him a brand new automobile — he tracks the notion back to Trevor, the boy's harried mother (Helen Hunt) and the troubled junior high school teacher (Kevin Spacey), a terse man with a burn-scarred face, who helped Trevor nourish the idea at the start. Unfortunately, plausibility vanishes in a film "so enamored of its own upbeat view of human nature that it expects you to overlook its stick-figure characters, its creaky plot machinery and its remorseless assault on your tear ducts" (A. O. Scott). 2000. Warner. $107.37; DVD, $26.98. 122 minutes. Closed captioned. PG-13.

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/18/arts/18VIDA.html?searchpv=nytToday

http://www.nytimes.com

Copyright 2001 The New York Times Company

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