Sinopsis:
El despitado profesor Graddy Trip quien en medio de un festival literario deberá resolver su propia vida y la de aquellos que lo rodean. En medio de esta frenética odisea dos estudiantes desean poner en claro sus sentimientos hacia su profesor. Al mismo tiempo, se entera que su amante está embarazada y su agente esta desesperado por que escriba un nuevo libro.
Estudio: Paramount Pictures
Duración: 111 MIN
Director: Curtis Hanson
Con: Michael Douglas,Tobey Maguire,Katie Holmes,Robert Downey Jr.
Wonder Boys is one of those movies in which more twists and turns disrupt the life of the hero in one weekend than would bother most of us our whole lives. Professor Grady Tripp (Michael Douglas) is an aging one-novel wunderkind at a small Pittsburgh college who's laboring on his seven-years-in-the-making, 2000-plus page second opus with no end in sight. The morning of the college's literary lollapalooza, WordFest, Grady's wife leaves him; that evening, his mistress (Frances McDormand) announces she's pregnant (she's also the chancellor of the school, as well as the wife of Grady's boss). Grady's voracious editor (Robert Downey Jr.) is also in town, transvestite date in tow, determined to read the highly anticipated new book; there's also the nubile student (Katie Holmes), who seems more than willing to ease Grady's pain. And then there's James Leer (Tobey Maguire), the mordant and brilliant writing student who's the catalyst for Grady's lost weekend, which involves a soon-to-be-dead blind dog, a stolen car, and the jacket that Marilyn Monroe wore when she wed Joe DiMaggio.
Had enough flights of fancy? It's only the beginning, and in the hands of director Curtis Hanson (L.A. Confidential) and screenwriter Steve Kloves (The Fabulous Baker Boys), Wonder Boys will have you begging for more.
