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Wonder Boys
2000
College Professor and novelist, Grady Tripp, is suffering from writer's block which causes him to be be filled with self doubt. Based on the novel by Michael Chabon. Read more
| Starring | Michael Douglas, Tobey Maguire, Frances McDormand, Robert Downey Jr. |
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| Director | Curtis Hanson |
| Genres | Drama |
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Wonder Boys
College Professor and novelist, Grady Tripp, is suffering from writer's block which causes him to be be filled with self doubt. Based on the novel by Michael Chabon.
| Starring | Michael Douglas, Tobey Maguire, Frances McDormand, Robert Downey Jr., Katie Holmes, Rip Torn, Richard Thomas, Alan Tudyk |
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| Director | Curtis Hanson |
| Studio | UCA |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 48 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Collections | 100 must-see movies |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | English |
| Released | DVD: 03 Sep 2001 Production year: 2000 |
| Format | DVD |
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18 out of 21 people found this review helpful
A funny, entertaining and at times poignant study of a talented writer's mid-life crisis. Michael Douglas surprises by giving quite easily his best performance since "Falling Down" and Tobey Maguire again proves why he is one the best actors of his generation. Robert Downey Jr, Katie Holmes and others give this film further class. Defintely worth a couple of hours of your time.
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Having first encountered Tobey Maguire in Spiderman (I) and thought he couldn't act for toffee, a friend suggested I try some of his - till then, anyway - more typical films. I stand corrected (and why were his skills wasted in Spidey?) - he does oddballs to <i>perfection</i>, and this film is no exception.
<br><br>Michael Douglas and Robert Downey Jr are both a delight in their different ways, and the dryness of the humour is almost British.
<br><br>Wonder Boys is a bit of a weird film - not an enormous amount of action, and all about having a midlife crisis and being a social misfit - but very well-observed and screamingly funny in a dark kind of way. I love it so much, I've bought my own copy. -
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- 12 May 2008
Lawrence (a bearded and tweedy Dennis Quaid) is a professor of literature and a pompous ass. Maybe the death of his wife made him that way - maybe he always had it in him, but he's organized his life in such a way that no one else gets much of a look in. Not his pissed off teenage son, James (Ashton Holmes); not his colleagues on the faculty; certainly not his poor students; and least of all his own ne'er do well brother Chuck (Thomas Haden Church). The only one who genuinely likes Lawrence is Read more
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Wonder Boys
College Professor and novelist, Grady Tripp, is suffering from writer's block which causes him to be be filled with self doubt. Based on the novel by Michael Chabon....
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