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  • 2000
  • R
  • Paramount Pictures
  • 1 h 47 m
  • 2000
  • R
  • Paramount Pictures
  • 1 h 47 m

Summary Grady Tripp (Douglas) is a 50-ish English professor who hasn't had a thing published in years -- not since he wrote his award-winning Great American Novel seven years ago. It's hardly surprising, then that his college's annual literary festival fills the former wonder boy with more than his usual quota of self-doubt and anxiety. This f...

Directed By: Curtis Hanson

Written By: Michael Chabon, Steve Kloves

  • 2000
  • R
  • Paramount Pictures
  • 1 h 47 m
  • 2000
  • R
  • Paramount Pictures
  • 1 h 47 m

Wonder Boys

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 36 Critic Reviews
74
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 48 User Ratings
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Summary Grady Tripp (Douglas) is a 50-ish English professor who hasn't had a thing published in years -- not since he wrote his award-winning Great American Novel seven years ago. It's hardly surprising, then that his college's annual literary festival fills the former wonder boy with more than his usual quota of self-doubt and anxiety. This f...

Directed By: Curtis Hanson

Written By: Michael Chabon, Steve Kloves

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 36 Critic Reviews
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78% Positive
28 Reviews
22% Mixed
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Generally Favorable Based on 36 Critic Reviews
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100
Downey, who radiates more energy doing nothing discernible than most other actors do when they let it all hang out, takes the film to another level.
By Amy Taubin FULL REVIEW
90
Well-crafted scenes that carry a bracingly grown-up tang: unhurried, played in a low key, with plenty of time to savor the details of character and place.
By Robert Horton FULL REVIEW

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4% Negative
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[Douglas] is a superb (and underused) comic actor, one who knows that the secret of being funny is never begging for a laugh.
By David Ansen FULL REVIEW
75
Among the movie's oddball treats are Robert Downey Jr. as Grady's flamboyant editor and Rip Torn as a pedantic author and sermonizer known only as Q.
By Jami Bernard FULL REVIEW
75
See Wonder Boys for the acting, particularly McDormand and Maguire, but use the goofy moments to get popcorn refills.
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58
Sweet, flaky, and more than a little aimless.
By Owen Gleiberman FULL REVIEW
40
The sad truth is that Wonder Boys is little more than a sentimentalized encomium to the disheveled, childish life it ascribes to writers.
By Stephen Hunter FULL REVIEW
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Production Company Mutual Film Company, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Marubeni, Toho-Towa, Tele München Fernseh Produktionsgesellschaft (TMG), Paramount Pictures, Scott Rudin Productions, H2L Media Group, MFF Feature Film Productions
Release Date Feb 25, 2000
Duration 1 h 47 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline A weekend from hell became the time of his life.
Website https://www.filmymen.us/2022/11/wonder-boys-movie-wonder-boys-full.html
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Awards

Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Win & 4 Nominations
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
Online Film & Television Association
• 1 Win & 7 Nominations

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