Continuity mistake: At one point late in the movie, Arlene McKinney is at the kitchen sink. If you look through the window it is daylight out. She then goes outside and it is night.
Pay it Forward (2000)
Plot summary
Directed by: Mimi Leder
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Helen Hunt, Haley Joel Osment, Jay Mohr, James Caviezel, Jon Bon Jovi
A young boy is assigned a project to "change the world" by a new Social Studies teacher. He comes up with the "Pay it Forward", a system where he does 3 really good deeds for 3 different people and these people have to do 3 other good deeds for 3 other people.
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Eugene: Jesus Arlene, he doesn't have to. All he has to do is not love him.
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Chosen answer: The one who stabbed him was not. The others were there because they did not mean for Trevor to get stabbed and killed so now they feel guilty. They were showing Arlene they were sorry.
They were sorry for killing him.
Only one of the bullies killed him. The others were bullying, but didn't think the other would kill him. However, they still had remorse and were showing that remorse to the mother.