| Field | Details |
|---|---|
| Movie Name | WONDER BOYS (2000) |
| Director | Curtis Hanson |
| Writer | Michael Chabon, Steve Kloves |
| Lead Actor | Michael Douglas |
| Cast | Michael Douglas, Tobey Maguire, Frances McDormand |
| Genre | Comedy, Drama |
| Release Date | February 25, 2000 (United States) |
| Duration | 1h 47m(107 min) |
| Budget | $55 million |
| Language | English |
| IMDB Rating | 7.2/10 |
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WONDER BOYS got good secular reviews but not here On Fmovies. There’s some smartness and grown up appeal, but these are characters basically going nowhere important. The world of college English majors and profs is not a whole lot morally better than the suburban confusion on display in American Beauty.
This set in Pittsburgh comedy is from writer Steve Kloves (The Fabulous Baker Boys), who has refreshing sympathy for artists with low octane talents. It begins in a writing workshop where prof Grady Tripp (Michael Douglas) is a one novel wonder boy with writer’s block, or maybe lack of block. His second book is up to 2,611 pages with no end in sight. He’s too fond of addictive substances.
Grady has other problems, too. His wife has just left him. He’s having an affair with the chancellor (Frances McDormand), who also happens to be his department head’s wife, and she has just become pregnant. One of Grady’s few achievements has been to inspire a fragile student, James (Tobey Maguire).
The film covers a boozy, druggie weekend of college parties, rushing about aimlessly, talking and enduring odd events. Eventually, Grady passes James on to his gay editor from New York (Robert Downey, Jr.), who urgently needs a new writing star to save his own career.
These folks are not great fun to be with, and their weaknesses are obviously the butt of the dark humor. Writing seems important to them but we don’t know why. We don’t hear what they write or learn anything new about what makes writing good. At least Kloves and director Curtis Hanson (L.A. Confidential) show compassion, and end up with a meandering satire of academic and book business pretensions. Adult material, not especially recommended.
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