Wonder Boys
starring: Philip Bosco, Robert Downey Jr., Frances McDormand, Michael Douglas, Richard Thomas
directed by: Curtis Hanson
directed by: Curtis Hanson
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: DOUGLAS,MICHAEL
EAN: 9780792165149
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792165144
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 13, 2001
Running Time: 111 minutes
Sales Rank: 4639
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: 2000
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
A college professor who's been divorced three times and hasn't been able to overcome writer's block, gets his boss's wife, the college chancellor, pregnant.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 8-AUG-2006
Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com:
Wonder Boys is one of those movies in which more twists and turns disrupt the life of the hero in one weekend than would bother most of us our whole lives. Professor Grady Tripp (Michael Douglas) is an aging one-novel wunderkind at a small Pittsburgh college who's laboring on his seven-years-in-the-making, 2000-plus page second opus with no end in sight. The morning of the college's literary lollapalooza, WordFest, Grady's wife leaves him; that evening, his mistress (Frances McDormand) announces she's pregnant (she's also the chancellor of the school, as well as the wife of Grady's boss). Grady's voracious editor (Robert Downey Jr.) is also in town, transvestite date in tow, determined to read the highly anticipated new book; there's also the nubile student (Katie Holmes), who seems more than willing to ease Grady's pain. And then there's James Leer (Tobey Maguire), the mordant and brilliant writing student who's the catalyst for Grady's lost weekend, which involves a soon-to-be-dead blind dog, a stolen car, and the jacket that Marilyn Monroe wore when she wed Joe DiMaggio.
Had enough flights of fancy? It's only the beginning, and in the hands of director Curtis Hanson (L.A. Confidential) and screenwriter Steve Kloves (The Fabulous Baker Boys), Wonder Boys will have you begging for more. Adroitly adapting Michael Chabon's novel and distilling it to its droll, melancholy essence, Kloves and Hanson have fashioned a briskly unsentimental and darkly funny tale; these characters may be down on their luck, but they sure don't feel sorry for themselves. Douglas, by turns dryly sarcastic and sincerely heartfelt, single-handedly makes up for years of alpha-male posturing as the passive pothead Tripp, and whoever thought of pairing him with the resilient McDormand is brilliant--they convey the complexities and history of their relationship in a single glance or movement. And under Hanson's guidance, the rest of the cast is truly exceptional, with Maguire in a breakthrough performance and Downey at his manic best. The ending of Wonder Boys may feel a little too pat, but after everything these characters have been through, a happy ending seems a just reward. --Mark Englehart
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- Wonder BoysThis is one of my favorite movies. These are the best characters I've ever seen Michael Douglas and ... Read More
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- Great movie. Pleasant surprise.I thought I'd seen some quirky comedies, but this one has become my favorite of them all. Michael Douglas, ... Read More
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- Great Performances By All"Wonder Boys" is a sweetly-serious "dramedy" about Grady, a middle-aged academic and author (Michael Douglas), ... Read More
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- Excellent movie.......I loved this movie! It was hilarious with an amazing cast!
The movie has been out for awhile, but ... Read More
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- Wonderful "Wonder Boys""Wonder Boys" isn't quite a masterwork like Curtis Hanson's previous film, "L.A. Confidential," but it's excellent ... Read More
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