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Plot:
Grady Tripp is a professor/writer living in Pittsburgh who is struggling with writer's block. Whilst doing this, he also manages to get the chancellor pregnant. In the meantime, he and a college stude...( read more 
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MCT:September 28, 2008Absolutely magnificent. Brilliant and outstanding. A wonderful and enjoyablely entertaining movie. It's a hilarious piece of work. Written, directed and performed wounderously. Director, Curtis Hansons best film since L.A Confidential. He truly understands the comedy and the drama of the film and knows how to place them nicely. Perfect performances. Michael Douglas is terrific. It's his most charasmatic and remarkable performance ever. Tobey Maguire is subtle and great, a charming and ethusiastic young talent. Robert Downey Jr. acts with great comic flair.
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MCT:June 14, 2008Interested
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MCT:May 8, 2008
Grady Tripp (Michael Douglas) is a middle-aged professor of English, and is writing his second novel, `The Wonder Boys'. However, this character is not a stereotypical teacher but a fantastically original creation emphasized by Douglas' winning performance. He smokes weed and lives with a student of his (Katie Holmes), he is in the midst of his third divorce and is in love with his married boss, Sara Gaskell (Frances McDormand), and that second novel is forever incomplete, and has been for seven years. One of his pupils is James Leer, played to perfection by Tobey Maguire, who writes amazingly obtuse stories and is obsessed with the death of film stars. James and Grady become partners in crime when they shoot Sara's blind dog and steal the coat Marilyn Monroe was married in. From here on in we are absorbed into the life of Grady and those around him, from his publisher terry Crabtree (Downey jr) to his writer rival, Q. we see lives slowly fall apart, relationships blossom, a novel disappear into the wind and a black dude who refuses to be called Vernon Hardapple, all in one weekend. The acting is flawless, with at least two superb supporting roles. Robert Downey jr sparkles in his greatest role since Chaplin, but it is Tobey Maguire who makes us feel he has always been that awkward, deadpan student that is James Leer. Douglas is a revelation as a bonafide movie-star allowing the actor he's always had inside by allowing to de-glam his persona of a slick, lady-killing cocksure swaggardly handsome devil and here allow himself to be absorbed by a lumpy, pot-smoking, hazy for the future shlump who discovers the truth lies within. "Wonder Boys" was a very pleasant surprise, its light tone and funny dark humor.
James Leer: "It's just... for good luck. Some people carry rabbits' feet... "
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MCT:February 8, 2008
from what i remember of watching it a night or two ago (and towards the end i was feeling really tired) it was mildly amusing. it was almost like easy listening music... just easy viewing instead. frances mcdormand was good in her part... and the rest of the cast weren't bad either. yeh, it was interesting and fun... i don't think it'll ever win any awards though. maybe i could do with watching it again when i'm not so desperately tired. i found the part with the dead dog quite comical. bit of the black comedy element to it too!
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MCT:January 22, 2008Smart, charming and funny. It's about finding the right inspiration and making the right choices. A film that emphasizes character over story, successfully integrating the idiosyncracies of its main characters - with a hilarious, awsome performance by Michael Douglas - into the more fundamental issues with which they struggle. It's always very rare and refreshing to see a film that celebrates writing and intelligence.
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MCT:October 13, 2008
Starting out somewhat slow and uncertain where it wants to go, this movie about an author / professor with writer's block while discovering a writing talent, gets better by the minute with a really quirky humor and characters. The acting is good (there is Robert Downey Jr. involved, duh!), but I wasn't entirely sure what the film was trying to say for a pretty long time. That didn't keep me from being amused, especially by the second half.
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