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Wonder Boys is a 2000 comedy-drama film directed by Curtis Hanson and written by Steve Kloves. An international co-production between the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Japan, it is based on the 1995 novel of the same name by Michael Chabon.
Feb 25, 2000 · With Michael Douglas, Tobey Maguire, Frances McDormand, Robert Downey Jr.. An English Professor tries to deal with his wife leaving him, the arrival of his editor who has been waiting for his book for seven years, and the various problems that his friends and associates involve him in.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Curtis Hanson
- 2000-02-25
Michael Douglas and Tobey Maguire do wonders in this clever dark comedy. Grady (Michael Douglas) is a 50-ish English professor who hasn't had a thing published in years -- not since he wrote his ...
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- Curtis Hanson
- R
- Michael Douglas
May 12, 2000 · "Wonder Boys" is the most accurate movie about campus life that I can remember. It is accurate, not because it captures intellectual debate or campus politics, but because it knows two things: (1) Students come and go, but the faculty actually lives there, and (2) many faculty members stay stuck in graduate-student mode for decades.
Wonder Boys is a 1995 novel by the American writer Michael Chabon. It was adapted into a film with the same title in 2000.
- Michael Chabon
- 1995
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Synopsis. Professor Grady Tripp (Michael Douglas) is a novelist who teaches creative writing at an unnamed Pittsburgh university (the movie was shot chiefly in and around Carnegie Mellon University).
Wonder Boys. About. In this comedy, a middle-aged man juggles his problems with women, literature, and a career, while a younger man chases the artifact of his dreams.
