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May 12, 2000 · "Wonder Boys" is the most accurate movie about campus life that I can remember. It is accurate, not because it captures intellectual debate or campus politics, but because it knows two things: (1) Students come and go, but the faculty actually lives there, and (2) many faculty members stay stuck in graduate-student mode for decades.
Rated: B Sep 2, 2022 Full Review Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review Wonder Boys reminds us that life is about putting one sentence after another, knowing when to start the next chapter,...
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Wonder Boys is a 2000 comedy-drama film directed by Curtis Hanson and written by Steve Kloves. An international co-production between the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Japan, it is based on the 1995 novel of the same name by Michael Chabon.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 16, 2021. Yasser Medina Cinefilia. A silly, anodyne, and terribly absurd comedy drama, packed with characters as flat as a freshly printed blank sheet ...
Feb 25, 2000 · Wonder Boys: Directed by Curtis Hanson. With Michael Douglas, Tobey Maguire, Frances McDormand, Robert Downey Jr.. 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.
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Wonder Boys (2000): Dir: Curtis Hanson / Cast: Michael Douglas, Tobey Mcguire, Frances McDormand, Katie Holmes, Robert Downey Jr.: Intelligent comedy about brilliant individuals overwhelmed with dread. Michael Douglas plays a professor with writer's block.
Feb 25, 2000 · This festival weekend, however, proves even worse than he could have imagined as he finds himself reeling from one misadventure to another in the company of a new wonder boy, his most gifted writing student James Leer (Maguire).
