Wonder Boys
2000 · Movie · 112 min. · United States
On the day his third wife leaves him and his literary agent arrives to pressure him to finish a novel seven years in the writing, Carnegie Mellon professor, Grady Tripp, also learns that his married mistress is pregnant. Seven years before, with his first novel, he was a wonder boy. So was his agent. Both now need something. Over the weekend, instead of making choices, he vacillates in a pot-induced haze. One of his students, James Leer, perhaps stirs paternal feelings in Grady and raises homo-erotic urges in the agent. Academic politics complicate things: Grady's mistress is the college chancellor, her husband chairs Grady's department, James has just shot the husband's dog. What to do?
Direction Curtis Hanson
Cast Michael Douglas · Tobey Maguire · Frances McDormand · Katie Holmes · Robert Downey Jr. · Rip Torn · Philip Bosco · Richard Thomas · Michael Cavadias · Jane Adams · Kelly Bishop
Soundtrack Christopher Young · Bob Dylan
Screenplay Steve Kloves · Michael Chabon
Cinematography Dante Spinotti
Original title Wonder Boys
6.3
11K votes (FilmAffinity)
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