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Wonder Boys (2000)
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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.)...
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The writer's journey sometimes involves Marilyn Monroe's coat, a dead dog and a transvestite in love with Robert Downey Jr.
This movie and all its actors take huge risks, all with faith in director Curtis Hanson, and it pays off.
Michael Douglas has never been so refreshingly fallen as in this movie. He spends most of...
(complete Wonder Boys review by Jessica Film Junkie)
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