Wonder Boys
Undependable. Unpredictable. Unforgettable.
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DVD-R Details
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: September 22, 2020
- Originally Released: 2000
- Label: Paramount
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Michael Douglas, Tobey Maguire, Frances McDormand, Katie Holmes & Robert Downey Jr. | |
Performer: | Rip Torn, Richard Knox, Jane Adams, Richard Thomas, Alan Tudyk, Philip Bosco, George Grizzard, Yusuf Gatewood & Kelly Bishop | |
Directed by | Curtis Hanson | |
Edited by | Dede Allen & Craig Kitson | |
Music by | Bob Dylan | |
Screenwriting by | Steve Kloves | |
Composition by | Christopher Young | |
Produced by | Curtis Hanson & Scott Rudin | |
Director of Photography: | Dante Spinotti | |
Executive Production by | Adam Schroeder & Ned Dowd |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 2000 -
Best Original Song: Bob Dylan
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
Writer Steven Kloves and director Curtis Hanson turn Michael Chabon's novel into a quirky goofball pleasure.
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Sacramento News & Review
...The film's Pittsburgh settings gleam like an eccentric urban fantasy. Hanson has also orchestrated uniformly excellent performances from his cast...
Los Angeles Times
Rating: 3/4 --
With vivid characters, an ironic voice-over narrative, and a solidly written screenplay, Wonder Boys provides its share of small pleasures...
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ReelViews
Rating: 2/4 --
One of those films where the term 'character study' is used to excuse the fact that there's nothing of real interest in the story.
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TheMovieReport.com
...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'... -- 4 out of 5 stars
Box Office
Michael Douglas digs deep and delivers one of the best performances in WONDER BOYS--a comic dazzler of roguish wit and touching gravity...
Rolling Stone
Rating: 4/5 --
This grand mess of a movie has many pleasures.
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Common Sense Media
Product Description:
In 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.
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- Sales Rank: 74,388
- UPC: 032429347343
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