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Wonder Boys

Philip Bosco (Actor), Robert Downey Jr. (Actor), Curtis Hanson (Director) Rated:

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A college professor who's been divorced three times and hasn't been able to overcome writer's block, gets his boss's wife, the college chancellor, pregnant.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 8-AUG-2006
Media Type: DVD

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Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.85:1
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ s_medR R (Restricted)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.25 x 4.25 x 0.5 inches; 4.8 Ounces
Item model number ‏ : ‎ 097363326144
Director ‏ : ‎ Curtis Hanson
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Multiple Formats, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Widescreen, NTSC
Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 47 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ March 13, 2001
Actors ‏ : ‎ Philip Bosco, Robert Downey Jr., Frances McDormand, Michael Douglas, Richard Thomas
Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ English, French
Studio ‏ : ‎ Paramount
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00003CXDJ
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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David Marker

A Tried and True Theory

Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2019

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My wife has this theory that I sometimes disregard at my own peril. Said theory states that when a movie has an all-star cast but is in theaters for a very limited time, there is a good reason. Wonder Boys is one such example. This was a terrible motion picture. The debate that raged in the household was something along the lines of "how long can we stick it out before turning it off." We figured it had to get better; that something had to happen that made it worth watching. The answers to those questions were 1) It didn't get better 2) Not happened that made it worth watching. We watched to the very end and regretted every minute of it. DON'T BE FOOLED BY THIS OUTSTANDING CAST! DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME! DON'T WATCH THIS FAILED ATTEMPT AT MOVIE MAKING.

Don't worry, I won't give you spoilers. If you take my advice, there is no reason to do that.

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Susan Guzman

A Cautionary Tale for creative Writing Majors....

Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2016

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Well, to be fair, the novel is a literary jewel, and the movie doesn't do it justice but.....I actually WAS a creative writing major like James Leer in Pittsburgh around the time of the novel's setting. The movie was filmed at my school, Carnegie Mellon, although in real life Michael Chabon studied at Pitt. If nothing else (although there IS so much else..) this novel is a true representation of the life of college writer wannabes and bes in the 70's, at least. The characters are true, and the plot is true. Every writing class had a James Leer and some of us were lucky enough to have a Grady Tripp as professor, and I'm pretty sure we all went to parties like the Saturday night blow-out at Grady's house and hung out at dives on the Hill.. So, while this is not a literary review (as an English major, I was not a particularly successful one) I just wanted to add my two thumbs up And if you've seen the movie, my role would have been played by the snide sarcastic girl with long red hair who calls James Leer an alien probe.

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George Goldberg

Comedy? Not a bit of it.

Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2021

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Incomprehensible, ugly, bizarre; I have run out of adjectives to describe this truly awful film, one of the worst I have ever seen, and I sat through more than an hour, a day-long hour, of it. Except for Frances McDormand, all the acting was pathetic, including, indeed especially by Michael Douglas. But the writing was immeasurably worse; nothing made any sense at all. I mean, the Douglas character has tenure in an English department and acts throughout like a total idiot, committing felonies right and left, from using illegal drugs to harboring a thief guilty of grand larceny and lying to the police about it, with barely a thought. As for comedy, nothing funny about any of it. Yuck!

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Charming, witty, great actors

Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2021

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*****[STOP! SPOILERS!!!]*****

This is the story of a college professor of English who for seven years has struggled to finish writing his second novel. The first was an unexpected success. During the last seven years, the professor has married and divorced more than once, and his current wife has just left him that morning. He is not devastated, however, because he has been having an affair with the married Chancellor of the university. Her husband is head of the English department. The Chancellor's husband has a blind dog named (of course) "Poe." Unlike his owner, Poe has sensed from "day one" that the professor is having an affair with the Chancellor. Championing his owner, Poe growls menacingly whenever the professor is present. Until, of course, he is shot and killed by one of the professor's students who acted to save the professor from attack.

Oh, and did I mention that in the course of that same evening, the student steals Marilyn Monroe's fur-trimmed jacket, collected and lovingly maintained by the Chancellor's husband? Or that the Chancellor is now pregnant? Or that the borrowed car the professor has been driving turns out to be a stolen vehicle? or that the professor's editor picks up a very tall transvestite during a plane ride to see the professor's second book?

I loved this movie. I laughed out loud at multiple spots in the movie. Great actors who seemed to be having fun playing their roles. A fun watch for an evening in.

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Christine N. Bush

A Comedy Full of Wit and Wonder

Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2016

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WONDER BOYS (2000) is a brilliant, witty, fun movie based on Michael Chabon's Wonder Boys: A Novel with an ensemble of excellent actors who each bring memorable performances to their offbeat and all-too-human characters. Hijinks slowly accumulate into profound postmodern absurdity. One marvels at the synchronicity of the casting that finds (the future) Iron Man attempting to seduce (the future) Spider Man. Also look for familiar faces from: Fargo, Firefly, Men in Black, and The Waltons television series. Semiotic mischief abounds. Michael Douglas’s eccentric stoner, Professor Grady “Tripp,” is an academic Ulysses navigating through much of the film in a vintage 1966 maroon Ford Galaxy 500 automobile that his calculating young protégé observes has a trunk that "holds a tuba, a suitcase, a dead dog, and a garment bag almost perfectly." Mix in drugs, an unregistered firearm, a transvestite, some vintage cultural Americana, a bedraggled pink bathrobe, and a soundtrack featuring Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Neil Young, and Leonard Cohen and a movie just doesn't get much more delicious than this. (Source: http://ideaspeak.us/2016/01/25/wonder-boys/)

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Downbear

Comedy? Really?

Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2019

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The only reason I started watching this movie was because I love the soundtrack album, but you won't hear much of that music. Then I kept watching wondering if there was some kind of inside joke, as in The Emperor's New Clothes. "If you don't see it, you're too low class." But I'll say this, the Emperor has no clothes. I actually heard this was a comedy, but it's self-serious, scattered, smug ... and a lot of other things that seem to pervade any movie I've seen with Michael Douglas. Avoid.

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A. Clarke

Excellent performances

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 22, 2018

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As a slightly older University professor, this film prompted by 12 year old to ask if this was true to life! I convinced him that not all colleges or professors are like Michael Douglas!

IAN

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 30, 2014

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Didn't work on my machines here in Canada

Reviewed in Canada on November 28, 2019

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I love this movie and wanted to buy it as a gift for my father, who loved it too. I read the reviews, and also the product specifications, which says it plays in German and English.
The movie is very well-priced and arrived very quickly, well-packaged,
Unfortunately, every time I placed it in my Samsung Blu-Ray DVD player, it spit it right back out. Then we tried to play it on the computer, but it would only play in German :(
The company approved my return, but then I realized that to buy a padded envelope to mail it would have cost almost as much as I would have gotten back, so we just tossed it.
I do think it's a great movie, and the company that sells it seems good, but I just wanted to warn people that it might not work in their DVD players (in Canada, at least).

K8 Wolf

Herrlicher Film

Reviewed in Germany on June 4, 2016

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Einer meiner absoulten Lieblingsfilme!
Ich habe diesen Film irgendwann vor Jahren nachts im Fernsehen gesehen und war absolut angetan. Professor der Literatur, der einen Bestseller hatte und versucht, trotz aller Widerstände an diesem Erfolg anzuknüpfen. Es gelingt aber nicht. Michael Douglas spielt natürlich auch diese Rolle hervorragend und sie steht ihm auch. Er ist glaubwürdig und man kann sich sehr leicht in ihn hineinversetzen. Robert Downy Jr. und Tobey Maguire, aber auch die anderen nicht unbekannten Schauspieler bereichern die Qualität des Film. Jeder Literaturinteressierte, der diverse Erfahrungen gemacht hat, wird diesen Film lieben. Er ist einfach so unkonventionell erfrischend!

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dr george pollard

A great film ...

Reviewed in Canada on February 15, 2019

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"Wonder Boys" is a remarkable story, both the film and the novel on which the film is based. The film is remarkably well-cast, well directed and, especially, well acted. The story, albeit containing some funny, in a bizarre way, is compelling. This is one of my top ten all time films. Best performance in the career of Michael Douglas. I'm eager for you watch "Wonder Boys." I can't recommend the film too highly. dgp

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