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Antihero for the ages 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 it wandering around in a pink bathrobe, the last remembrance of a marriage fallen apart. He is drenched in his own failure, but with a little help from an oddball student, he begins to climb his way out. Tobey Maguire is bizarre as Douglas' student who is obsessed with celebrity deaths and is coming to terms with his own sexuality (by way of a publisher played by Robert Downey Jr). Maguire gives the character a studied stillness that allows him to seem a voyeur of all the craziness occuring, while also being a large part of it. Katie Holmes exudes sexuality as the student with red cowboy boots. She tries to seduce Douglas time and time again, seeing him as a sort of God among men, but alas he is only a man. Finally, Frances McDormand is as good as always as the Dean of the University who is having an affair with Douglas' writer/professor. She is the head of a world run so often by men, but she is also weak in her love for this imperfect man. One of the great antiheroes, he finds his redemption, but it is atypical and only after a long journey into the land of confusion. email this review to a friend
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