Wonderful character development!

What makes it different from others?

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

If you like family values in your movies, you could do much worse than this. And while you might not agree with Travoltas politics or his firm believe in Scientology, this shouldn't matter watching a movie like this. He has fallen, but he can still act. Even if he projects more into some things than necessary.Still this is a decent, if predictable effort into the Heist foray. We know where it is heading and while only in movies people behave certain ways, there is a bit of switch with the story of a son who has been neglected and has to be won over again. Maybe this will warm your heart (not being sarcastic) to a degree that you'll give this a higher rating

"The Forger" from 2014 stars John Travolta, Christopher Plummer, Tye Sheridan, Jennifer Ehle, Abigail Spencer, and Anson Mount.Travolta plays Raymond Cutter, an art forger in prison for five years. Ten months before he's due to be released, he insists that his attorney "call Keegan." Keegan is part of a crime syndicate, and bribes a judge with $50,000 to get an early release for him.Cutter wants the early release because his teenage son (Tye Sheridan) has stage IV brain cancer, and Cutter wants as much time with him as he can get. But in order for Keegan to do that, Cutter had to agree to forge a Monet painting and switch it with the real one in a museum.The terrific performances really make this movie. John Travolta is excellent as a man trying to forge a relationship with his son. Christopher Plummer steals the show as Travolta's retired crook dad, abrasive with a loving heart beneath all the gruff. Tye Sheridan (Will) does a beautiful job as a kid who has moments of fear, knows his fate, and at first resents his father, and then realizes his father's talent and love for him. Very touching film, with some great Boston locations. It has a few problems - the forgery/heist story is a little sketchy, but as a family drama it really works. A great rental.

Highly Emotional Family bonding and Dramatics engage this Tear-Jerker with a good trio of lead Actors John Travolta, Tye Sheridan, and Christopher Plummer. Not a Heist-Film, per-se, as advertised, but a slice of Tragic Life with a Terminal Teenage cancer Victim the Centerpiece.The Family involved here are Criminals and Druggies. The Teen Boy is confronted with mostly Certain Death and handles it well. Travolta is Sensitive trying to Comfort and Reconnect with his Son, the Heart of Film, and while not breaking any New Ground the Movie is at best with the Warm Involvement of the Characters.The Heist angle is ridiculously Staged and is the Weakest part of the two part Story. If You can forgive the Contrivances in the Con, what is left is Human Drama handled with just enough Gravitas to hold the thing together and make it Worth a Watch.It's a Story that has been Done Many Times but is Essential and Important for the plight of People whose Lives are filled with Suffering brought about by their own makings and the makings of a World and Universe filled with Pain and the way our Species must Deal and Cope.The part of Life that Demands from all in this "House of Pain" the Courage and Determination to Overcome the Obstacles Roadblocking the Journey for all of Life's Participants.

A curious mix of family drama and crime thriller that never even begins to threaten to become a good cohesive mix, Philip Martin's The Forger is one of countless other films in years past that has potential yet fails to realise it due to lacklustre acting, scripting and some quite dire direction.Starring the now long time mojo-less John Travolta, The Forger gives the near unrecognisable 70's/80's icon a chance to shine as art loving forger (and proud goatee sporting) Raymond Cutter who just wants to spend some quality time with his dying son Will played by Tree of Life's Tye Sheridan but gets caught up with some mean old baddies who want him to do one last job but Travolta fails to bring anything to the table other than a torrid hairdo and while his interplay with Sheridan can be at times humorous and almost affecting, it doesn't work enough to make up for the Forger's shoddily handled storytelling.Every man, women, child and all those in between love a good heist movie, the tension of the set-up, the plans and the execution can make for white knuckle thrills but the Forger, to its detriment, never bothers to raise so much as a slight pulse and by the films so called finale, you'll be wondering if you've in fact been conned into "one last score" that just doesn't payoff. We could've done with double the dose of planning and making paint and far less meandering father/son relationship drama and for all the films effort to make us care for both Raymond and Will, by the end we frankly couldn't care less about their plight even though the film's final scene shows us just what could've been.Wasting a ripe story, industry vet Christopher Plummer and generally wasting our time with a movie that promises something yet delivers nothing, The Forger is a direct to DVD effort than you can stay well away from and is another nail in the increasingly shut coffin lid that now lays almost perfectly flush over the casket of John Travolta's slowly dying career.1 ½ uneven soul patches out of 5