Finding Forrester (2000)

the last time the world heard of william forrester was when, forty years before, he had written a pulitzer prize winning novel. ore lives like a lone wolf in a run-down apartment in the bronx, and when jamal wallace, an exuberant sixteen-year-old of color who dreams of becoming a writer despite his talent for basketball, breaks into his hermit life, the eccentric novelist rediscovers all the fire long since dormant in his soul, thus re-emerging from his exile.