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Wonder Boys

2000

Curtis Hanson

Michael Douglas, Tobey Maguire, Frances McDormand, Katie Holmes ...

6.3

10,912

Comedy On the day his third wife leaves him and his literary agent arrives to pressure him to finish a novel seven years in the writing, Carnegie Mellon professor, Grady Tripp, also learns that his married mistress is pregnant. Seven years before, with his first novel, he was a wonder boy. So was his agent. Both now need something. Over the weekend, instead of making choices, he vacillates in a pot-induced haze. One of his students, James ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"'Wonder Boys' is the most accurate movie about campus life that I can remember (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"
		Colin Kennedy Empire	"Wonderful (...) It is a rich, complex broth which steams slowly into your senses and leaves you with a warm, lasting glow (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"
		A. O. Scott The New York Times	"'Wonder Boys'' is like a George Cukor movie with a bad head cold -- slow, muffled and vague."
		Emanuel Levy Variety	"Witty and sophisticated (...) Michael Douglas gives the best performance of his career"
		Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune	"It's an often-wondrous comedy, just as rich and surprising as L.A. Confidential but considerably less dark"
		Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"I’d have liked 'Wonder Boys' better if it weren’t so whimsical and precious — a series of conceits posing as characters."
		Mick LaSalle SFGATE	"An emotionally dishonest movie about emotionally dishonest people."

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