Kevin plays a social studies teacher who gives an assignment to his junior high school class. "How would you go about making the world a better place to live?" Haley is a young student who decides on the act of "paying forward" favors.
The student puts his idea into motion by changing the life of his struggling single mother (Hunt) and unknowingly, the lives of people around the country. It becomes a national phenomenon.
Tagline: #1 It has to be something that really helps people. #2 Something they can't do by themselves. #3 I do it for them, they do it for three other people. These are the rules when you pay it forward on October 20th, 2000.
Based on the book by Catherine Ryan Hyde, Directed by Mimi Leder.