Pay It Forward

It isn't a very good idea to dream small dreams in Hollywood. But if you are the kind of director that knows that small is the way a lot of things turn out, and that the world can be as disappointing as it can be beautiful and as painful as it can be joyous, then you get stuck between big and small in a big way and can't quite decide which way your movie should go. And audiences do not like their directors standing on shaky ground.

The secret of all good movies is that they believe in themselves (remember Forrest Gump?). Pay It Forward seems to oscillate wildly between naï....