A thief works with his father and son to forge a painting by Monet and steal the original. Together, they plan the heist of their lives. The Forger packs 3 really good performances by Christopher Plummer, Tye Sheridan and John Travolta and both the heist sequences and the drama really worked nicely and although it's about a bank heist it still has some emotion since a father is trying to connect with his son again but also his father and that worked really well for me. It's not one of Travolta's best it has problems and certain things could been better but as a whole it's a nice film and not a disappointment as i thought it was going to be.

We went to the cinema as we call it it in the UK last weekend to see a crash,bang , wallop movie, as nearly all films are these days. As the trailers were all for crash ,bang wallop movies as well. I It was a pleasure to see on TV an old fashioned type of film with a STORY line! I thought the characters played by the grand-father, father and son were moving and the drug addicted mother was shown empathy by her estranged family.I thought that Jon Travolta , Christopher Plummer and Tye Sheridan were very good. The scene where Travolta takes his son to the brothel ,was handled perfectly . The ending had a kind of Shawshank Redemption kind of quality about it. I like a film with a redemption! It makes me feel better and not miserable . And is it a bad thing to be entertained by a a film?

****SPOILERS****John Travolta as ex-convict Raymond J. Cutter sporting an artsy looking mini goatee is recruited by the man who framed him Keegan, Ason mount, to be part of a robbery of the famous Monet's "Woman with a passion" painting out of the Boston Art Museum. The big surprise in all this is that Cutter a master artist himself is to reproduce the work of art and replace it with that of the original! This whacked out scheme is payback to Keegan who paid off the judge in Cutter's case to release him 10 months earlier so he can spend some time with his terminally ill, with 4th stage brain cancer, 15 year old son Will, Tye Sheridan,before he passes away!Raymond also gets to have the dying Will to finally meet his estranged and pill popping mom Kim, Jennifer Ehle,to have an hamburger and fries with at a local Boston "Danney's". As well as have Will get to get-well you know what- or have a good time in the sack with his on and off girlfriend Melaine, Lyndon Smith, who he was too shy, until his dad stepped in, to ask out for a date.***SPOILERS*** It was Will's grandpa Joseph Cutter, Chris "The Plummer" Plummer, who in being a both master criminal as well as artist who set everything up for his son Raymond to succeed by not only reproducing the Monet work of art-"Woman with Passion"- but setting up Keegan, who framed Raymond and had him spend five years behind bars,in switching the painting and having him stuck with the phony one that he reproduced. Somewhat to complicated to follow but Travolta's performance as a father risking everything to make his son's last days on earth happy ones did hit a nerve in watching the movie. That in the tragedy that Travolta did in fact suffer in real life with his son passing away at an early age.

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.