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PAY IT FORWARD
Everything in social studies teacher Eugene Simonet's life is in order--every shirt, every pencil, every person in its proper place. To keep the surface placid means never having to go deeper. And no one and nothing in his life has ever asked him to. Arlene McKinney is a single mother hanging on by her fingertips, working two jobs, and struggling to raise her son, Trevor. She is trying to give him a new life, but in her absence she is losing him. Eugene gives Trevor's class an assignment: look at the world around you and fix what you don't like... to think of a way to change our world and put it into action. But can you fix people? Eugene does not expect this year's seventh grade class to be different from last year's. He hopes, but doesn't anticipate, that his students will take it seriously. One young student, Trevor McKinney, takes the assignment to heart. He inspires Trevor to come up with 'pay it forward.' It's something Trevor, a child often left to take care of himself because his mother is often working for the survival of her and her son, can finally believe in, something he thinks will make his own life better. Osment explains Trevor's idea of "pay it forward," as "doing something for somebody that they can't do for themselves. You just have to do that three times and the people you help each do it three times, then it gets bigger. It goes from three to nine to 27 and on and on and on." As Trevor struggles with his plan, ripples begin to be felt by others in his life. Trevor gives a young homeless man a place to sleep and take a shower. It touches an older homeless woman, Grace. It even reaches a young reporter, who tries to track down what he believes to be the story of the century. - payitforward.warnerbros.com |
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