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Mood:
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- Writer's LifeRedemptionTeachers and StudentsMidlife CrisisArtists and ShowbizHopesMind and SoulUnfulfillment more...
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- DramaComedy
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century90s
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- PittsburghUSASuburbs
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- Award WinnerCritically AcclaimedOscar WinnerPrestigious Awards
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- Talky
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- Based on Book
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- Rock
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Wonder Boys, 2000
English
UK, Germany, USA, Japan
Profile of Wonder Boys
Wonder Boys can be described as clever, contemplative, and touching. The plot revolves around a midlife crisis, the life of a writer, and teachers and students. The main genres are drama and comedy. In terms of style, Wonder Boys is talky. In approach, it is realistic. The storytelling is slow paced. Wonder Boys is set, at least in part, in the suburbs. It is located in Pittsburgh. It takes place in the 1990s. The soundtrack of Wonder Boys is rock. It is based on a book. The movie has received attention for being critically acclaimed and an Oscar winner. Note that Wonder Boys involves drugs/alcohol, sexual content, and profanity.
Summary of Wonder Boys
In Curtis Hanson's Wonder Boys, based on the novel by Michael Chabon, Michael Douglas delivers one of his most compelling performances as Grady Tripp, a disheveled, perpetually adolescent English professor amiably coasting toward a midlife crisis. On the inaugural day of his university's literary festival, Grady's third wife leaves him, and his mistress, university chancellor Sara Gaskell (Frances McDormand), announces that she's pregnant with their child. To further complicate matters, Grady's reckless editor, Terry Crabtree (Robert Downey Jr.), desperate to revive his flaccid career, arrives to pick up Grady's far-from-finished seven-years-in-the-making follow-up to his critically acclaimed first book. As if that weren't enough to keep him reeling, Grady soon becomes an unwilling accomplice to a canine homicide and the heist of a rare jacket once worn by Marilyn Monroe, both committed by his brightest student--the languid, slightly pathological James Leer (Tobey Maguire). Dressed in a ratty pink bathrobe and driving a stolen car with a dead dog in the trunk, Grady must now find a way to return Marilyn's coat, write the great American novel, nurture James's literary talents, discourage the advances of an amorous coed (Katie Holmes), avoid the wrath of a tiny James Brown look-alike (Richard Knox), and reconcile with Sara...all before the weekend is over.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | UK, Germany, USA, Japan |
| Release date: | 22 February 2000 |
| Runtime: | 107 min |
| Awards: | Academy Awards |
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Cast and Crew
as Prof. Grady Tripp
as James Leer
as Dean Sara Gaskell
as Terry Crabtree
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Film.com
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- by: John Hartl
Chicago Tribune
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- by: Michael Wilmington
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