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Synopsis:
In Curtis Hanson's WONDER BOYS, based on the novel
by Michael Chabon, Michael Douglas delivers one of his
most compelling performances as Grady Tripp, a disheveled,
perpetually adolescent English professor amiably coasting
toward a midlife crisis. On the inaugural day of his
university's literary festival, Grady's third wife leaves
him, and his mistress, university chancellor Sara Gaskell
(Frances McDormand), announces that she's pregnant with
their child. To further complicate matters, Grady's
reckless editor, Terry Crabtree (Robert Downey Jr.),
desperate to revive his flaccid career, arrives to pick up
Grady's far-from-finished seven-years-in-the-making
follow-up to his critically acclaimed first book. As if
that weren't enough to keep him reeling, Grady soon
becomes an unwilling accomplice to a canine homicide and
the heist of a rare jacket once worn by Marilyn Monroe,
both committed by his brightest student--the languid,
slightly pathological James Leer (Tobey Maguire). Dressed
in a ratty pink bathrobe and driving a stolen car with a
dead dog in the trunk, Grady must now find a way to return
Marilyn's coat, write the great American novel, nurture
James's literary talents, discourage the advances of an
amorous coed (Katie Holmes), avoid the wrath of a tiny
James Brown look-alike (Richard Knox), and reconcile with
Sara...all before the weekend is over.
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