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College Professor and novelist, Grady Tripp, is suffering from writer's block which causes him to be be filled with self doubt. Based on the novel by Michael Chabon.
Product Identifiers
ProducerScott Rudin, Curtis Hanson, Lisa Grundy
EAN0044007846827
eBay Product ID (ePID)3945753
Product Key Features
ActorRichard Hidlebird, Tobey Maguire, Rob Mcelhenney, Elisabeth Granli, Rip Torn, Katie Holmes, Frances Mcdormand, Michael Douglas, Bill Velin, Jane Adams, Patricia Cray, Katherine Sweeney, Victor Quinaz, Tracey D. Turner, Richard Knox, June Hildreth, James Kisicki, Lenora Nemetz, Robert Downey Jr, Philip Bosco, Michael Cavadias, Kevin Bishop, James Ellroy, Marita Golden, Screamer, Anika Bobb, Alan Tudyk, Bingo O'malley, Charis Michelsen, Yusuf Gatewood, George Grizzard, Richard Thomas
Film/TV TitleWonder Boys
DirectorCurtis Hanson
LanguageEnglish
Run Time108 Mins
Release Year2005
FormatDVD
FeaturesProduction Interviews - 1. Cast & Crew\Music Video - 1. Bob Dylan\Featurette - 1. Wonder Boys Singer\Songwriters\Scene Access\Interactive Tour - Location Map
GenreDrama, General
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
Certificate15
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America
ComposerChristopher Young
Executive ProducerAdam Schroeder
Costume DesignerBeatrix Aruna Pasztor
Sound sourceDolby Digital 5.1
Director of PhotographyDante Spinotti
CastingMali Finn
Production DesignerJeannine Claudia Oppewall
Additional InformationIn Curtis Hanson's WONDER BOYS, based on the novel by Michael Chabon, Michael Douglas delivers one of his most compelling performances as Grady Tripp, a disheveled, perpetually adolescent English professor amiably coasting toward a midlife crisis. On the inaugural day of his university's literary festival, Grady's third wife leaves him, and his mistress, university chancellor Sara Gaskell (Frances McDormand), announces that she's pregnant with their child. To further complicate matters, Grady's reckless editor, Terry Crabtree (Robert Downey Jr.), desperate to revive his flaccid career, arrives to pick up Grady's far-from-finished seven-years-in-the-making follow-up to his critically acclaimed first book. As if that weren't enough to keep him reeling, Grady soon becomes an unwilling accomplice to a canine homicide and the heist of a rare jacket once worn by Marilyn Monroe, both committed by his brightest student--the languid, slightly pathological James Leer (Tobey Maguire). Dressed in a ratty pink bathrobe and driving a stolen car with a dead dog in the trunk, Grady must now find a way to return Marilyn's coat, write the great American novel, nurture James's literary talents, discourage the advances of an amorous coed (Katie Holmes), avoid the wrath of a tiny James Brown look-alike (Richard Knox), and reconcile with Sara...all before the weekend is over.
ReviewsVariety - Witty and sophisticated....A gratifying entertainment of leisurely elegance and delicious nastiness, Box Office - WONDER BOYS is an intelligent movie about real people. It has serious points to make but makes them in a witty and engaging way. What more could you ask?, Entertainment Weekly - Ranked #8 in Entertainment Weekly's "Lisa Schwarzbaum's BEST MOVIES OF 2000", Rolling Stone - Michael Douglas digs deep and delivers one of the best performances in WONDER BOYS--a comic dazzler of roguish wit and touching gravity..., Los Angeles Times - The film's Pittsburgh settings gleam like an eccentric urban fantasy. Hanson has also orchestrated uniformly excellent performances from his cast, Rolling Stones Magazine - Michael Douglas digs deep and delivers one of the best performances in WONDER BOYS--a comic dazzler of roguish wit and touching gravity