Michael Douglas
Grady Tripp
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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.
- $55 million
- Christopher Young
- February 25, 2000
Feb 25, 2000 · Wonder Boys: Directed by Curtis Hanson. 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.
- Curtis Hanson
- 371
- 2 min
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
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- Michael Douglas
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May 12, 2000 · Michael Douglas plays a character like that. It is his best performance in years, muted, gentle and wondering. He is a boy wonder long past his sell-by date, a 50-ish English professor named Grady Tripp who wrote a good novel seven years ago, and now, everyone believes, has writer's block.
Plot summary. Pittsburgh professor and author Grady Tripp is working on an unwieldy 2,611-page manuscript that is meant to be the follow-up to his successful, award-winning novel The Land Downstairs, which was published seven years earlier. On the eve of a college-sponsored writers' and publishers' weekend called WordFest, Tripp's wife walks ...
- Michael Chabon
- 368 pp (first edition, hardback)
- 1995
- March 14, 1995
Summaries. 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. Grady Tripp is a professor/writer living in Pittsburgh who is struggling with writer's block.
