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Wonder Boys (2000)
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Ratings: 7.5/10 from 39,209 users
Metascore:
73/100
Reviews: 320 user | 167 critic | 36 from Metacritic.com 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. Director:Curtis Hanson |
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Vernon Hardapple
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Walter Gaskell
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Fred Leer
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Amanda Leer
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Storyline
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 student, James Leer are trying to find a rare jacket once owned by Marilyn Monroe, and a college girl, Hannah Green boarding with Grady has a bit of a crush on him. Written by Dave Lean <davelean@hotmail.com>
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Undependable. Unpredictable. Unforgettable.Parents Guide:
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Budget:
$35,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$5,808,919 (USA) (27 February 2000) (1253 Screens)Gross:
$19,389,454 (USA) (28 January 2001)Company Credits
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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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Books on James Leer's desk include Albert Camus's "The Plague", Truman Capote's "Answered Prayers", and Kenneth Anger's infamous "Hollywood Babylon". See more »Goofs
Continuity: Tripp is (not) wearing glasses when he talks to his in-laws. See more »Quotes
[first lines]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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