Review – Pay It Forward

I don’t know what pained me more, sitting through such a brazen attempt to manipulate my emotions or watching it fail so miserably at even this simple task. The idea of selflessly doing good things for other people could use a good pop culture promotion, which is why it’s such a terrible shame that this production skews good impulses into a dumb scheme by a middle school kid (Hayley Joel Osment) to match his alcoholic mom (Helen Hunt) up with his civics teacher (Kevin Spacey). Wish I'd skipped it