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Overview

User Rating:
7.5/10   29,718 votes
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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Michael Chabon (novel)
Steve Kloves (screenplay)
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Release Date:
25 February 2000 (USA) more
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Undependable. Unpredictable. Unforgettable.
Plot:
An English Professor tries to deal with his wife leaving him, the arrival of his editor who has been waiting for his book for seven years, and the various problems that his friends and associates involve him in. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
Won Oscar. Another 14 wins & 32 nominations more
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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Michael Douglas ... Prof. Grady Tripp

Tobey Maguire ... James Leer

Frances McDormand ... Dean Sara Gaskell

Robert Downey Jr. ... Terry Crabtree

Katie Holmes ... Hannah Green

Rip Torn ... Quentin 'Q' Morewood
Richard Knox ... Vernon Hardapple
Jane Adams ... Oola

Michael Cavadias ... Miss Antonia 'Tony' Sloviak
Richard Thomas ... Walter Gaskell

Alan Tudyk ... Sam Traxler
Philip Bosco ... Emily's Father
George Grizzard ... Fred Leer

Kelly Bishop ... Amanda Leer
Bill Velin ... Officer Pupcik
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Cudowni chlopcy (Poland) [pl]
Fin de semana de locos (Argentina) [es]
Jóvenes prodigiosos (Spain) [es]
Zlatni momci (Serbia) [sr]
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MPAA:
Rated R for language and drug content.
Runtime:
111 min
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Trivia:
In the theatrical version James Leer included Alan Ladd's death in his list of celebrity suicides. After complaints from Ladd's family, Paramount removed the offending line in all future releases of the film, including home video. VHS and DVD releases carry a disclaimer, shown before the feature, warning that the film has been edited for content. more
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Continuity: When Grady is being attacked by the chancellor's dog, in one shot the doorway behind Grady is empty, and in the next shot James stands in the doorway with the cap gun. more
Quotes:
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Grady Tripp: "The young girl sat perfectly still in the confessional listening to her father's boots scrape like chalk on the ancient steps of the church, then grow faint, then disappear altogether. She could sense the priest beyond the grate...” On that particular Friday afternoon, last February, I was reading a story to my Advanced Writers' Workshop by one James Leer, Junior Lit major and sole inhabitant of his own gloomy gulag.
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Movie Connections:
References All Fall Down (1962) more
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Shooting Star more

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16 out of 21 people found the following comment useful.
Long Live Vernon Hardapple, 1 February 2002
9/10
Author: Tony Lopez (fushnicken69) from Chicago

Michael Douglas has always been one of my favorite actors. He deserved his Oscar for Wall Street, commanded every second of screen time he had in Falling Down, and has given some of the most underrated comic performances in history in Romancing the Stone and War of the Roses. But I'd have to give his performance in Wonder Boys as his best. His turn as stoner college professor Grady Tripp is the model for the laid back, totally likeable and loveable protaginist. He's the kind of professor I dream of having in real life.

After watching this movie, I seriously wanted to go and write a book. For any of you blocked writers out there, just pop in Wonder Boys and you have your muse.

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