Movie
Wonder Boys
Overview
Grady 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' 7 years ago. This weekend proves even worse than he could imagine as he finds himself reeling from one misadventure to another in the company of a new wonder boy author.
Details
- Release date
- 2000-02-22
- Runtime
- 107 min
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Paramount Pictures, Mutual Film Company, Scott Rudin Productions, Curtis Hanson Productions, BBC, Marubeni, TOHO-TOWA, Tele München, MFF Feature Film Productions
- Country
- Germany, Japan, United Kingdom, United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Michael Douglas as Grady Tripp
- Tobey Maguire as James Leer
- Frances McDormand as Sara Gaskell
- Robert Downey Jr. as Terry Crabtree
- Katie Holmes as Hannah Green
- Rip Torn as Q
- Richard Knox as Vernon Hardapple
- Jane Adams as Oola
- Michael Cavadias as Miss Sloviak
- Richard Thomas as Walter Gaskell
- Alan Tudyk as Sam Traxler
- Philip Bosco as Emily's Father
Crew
- Curtis Hanson - Director
- Steve Kloves - Screenplay
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