Friday, September 8, 2023

WONDER BOYS (2000)
























Directed by: Curtis Hanson
Based on the novel by: Michael Chabon
Starring: Michael Douglas, Tobey Maguire, Frances McDormand, Katie Holmes, Robert Downey Jr, Rip Torn, Richard Thomas, Richard Knox, Jane Adams, Alan Tudyk, George Grizzard, Kelly Bishop, Philip Bosco, Michael Cavadias

111 minutes
(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, drug content)

PLOT:
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?

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