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United States. Language. English. Box office. $3.6 million [1] The Paper Chase is a 1973 American comedy-drama film starring Timothy Bottoms, Lindsay Wagner, and John Houseman, and directed by James Bridges . Based on John Jay Osborn Jr. 's 1971 novel The Paper Chase, it tells the story of James Hart, a first-year law student at Harvard Law ...
Oct 16, 1973 · The Paper Chase: Directed by James Bridges. With Timothy Bottoms, Lindsay Wagner, John Houseman, Graham Beckel. A first-year law student at Harvard Law School struggles with balancing his coursework and a woman, unaware that she has a connection that affects their relationship.
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- Comedy, Drama
- James Bridges
- 1973-10-16
The Paper Chase: Created by James Bridges. With John Houseman, James Stephens, Tom Fitzsimmons, James Keane. The trials of a group of law students under the tutelage of a strict professor.
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- 1978-09-09
- Drama
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Dec 15, 2023 · Remembering the Oscar-winning ‘The Paper Chase’ and John Houseman - GoldDerby. In honor of ‘The Holdovers’: Remembering the Oscar-winning ‘The Paper Chase’. Susan King. December 15,...
Kingsfield is really the movie's central character, even though John Houseman gets supporting billing for the role. Everything centers around his absolute dictatorship in the classroom and his icy reserve at all other times.
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John Houseman. Charles W. Kingsfield Jr. Lindsay Wagner. Susan Fields. Graham Beckel. Franklin Ford III. Edward Herrmann. Thomas Craig Anderson. Watchlist. In Theaters At Home TV Shows....
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John Houseman. Actor: The Paper Chase. Academy Award-winning actor John Houseman's main contribution to American culture was not his own performances on film but rather, his role as a midwife to one of the greatest actor-directors-cinematic geniuses his adopted country ever produced (Orson Welles) and as a midwife to a whole generation of ...