Wonder Boys

2000

Action / Comedy / Drama

32
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 81% · 123 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 83% · 25K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.2/10 10 69356 69.4K

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Plot summary

Grady is a 50-ish English professor who hasn't had a thing published in years—not since he wrote his award winning 'Great American Novel' 7 years ago. This weekend proves even worse than he could imagine as he finds himself reeling from one misadventure to another in the company of a new wonder boy author.

Director

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Curtis Hanson

Top cast

Robert Downey Jr. Photo
Robert Downey Jr. as Terry Crabtree
Katie Holmes Photo
Katie Holmes as Hannah Green
John W. Iwanonkiw Photo
John W. Iwanonkiw as Father at Hospital
Tobey Maguire Photo
Tobey Maguire as James Leer
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1 hr 51 min
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1021.17 MB
1280*528
English 2.0
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Subtitles us  
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1 hr 51 min
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2.05 GB
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English 5.1
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1 hr 51 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Peter McGinn 9 / 10

I have to believe I saw this movie

I have to believe I saw this movie a year or two after it came out, but I had no feelings of deja vu as I watched it, so perhaps not. I usually have very little patience for movies about writers because I am one, and I get tired of them bringing up writers’ block, which I don’t believe exists, or else they have the character become wildly successful in record time. There are a lot of struggling actresses and musicians and waitresses in movies, but writers often get fast-track succes. Anyway, I wander off topic. I enjoyed the movie with its range of quirky characters, and minor plot twists. There are only a couple of two-dimensional characters; the rest are given depth, even a few who don’t have a lot of screen time. It shows what can be achieved with a good ensemble cast and a decent script.
Reviewed by CinemaSerf 7 / 10

Prof. Tripp" (Michael Douglas) hasn't his troubles to

"Prof. Tripp" (Michael Douglas) hasn't his troubles to seek. He hasn't been able to follow up on his first novel for almost seven years - much to the chagrin of his agent "Terry" (Robert Downey Jr); his third wife has left him and he is about to father a child with his (married) boss (Frances McDormand) at the university where he works. His writer's block isn't really much helped by the omnipresence of his star pupil "James" (Tobey Maguire) nor by his increasingly debilitating pot habit. It's the man's mid life crisis from hell, but can he navigate a way out of this and keep some semblance of his self respective and, maybe even his career! Meantime, his protégé is having a few issues of his own - not least because he accidentally shot the principal's dog and he is the object of the amorous attentions of the ambisextrous "Terry" too! There's quite a decent dynamic between Douglas and Maguire as both men have to come to terms with their own problems and with their growing reliance on and frustration of each other and there is plenty of witty dialogue that is more complexly structured and subtly potent at times. The narrative is quite tightly packed into just one weekend, and that helps keeps the momentum going as the characters develop in quite a plausible - and not always likeable - fashion. Luckily, the one-dimensional Katie Holmes appears only sparingly as the plot thickens to a nicely bubbling stew at the end. It's a decent reminder that Douglas could act, given a strong story and script, and he shows us that well here with this superior ensemble drama.
Reviewed by tmans713 7 / 10

It's slow, but I like it

A slice of life story following Grady Tripp, a professor and once accomplished author who is going through a bit of a rough patch. The story is messy like Grady's life, but the performances are great and there's a positive message about supporting your friends, through both the good and the bad.
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