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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community Mar 28, 2001
Pros: Great cast, great script, great direction--great movie.
Cons: None large enough to mention.
Summary: Wonder Boys: Paramount Pictures
Rating: USA: R/ UK: 15
Somehow, I missed out on seeing director Curtis Hanson’s Wonder Boys in the theater. I remember seeing the ads for it on television, and thinking that it ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 3, 2005
Pros: Acting; Character Studies
Cons: Some dry spells in the plot
Summary: Since I had never before heard of Wonder Boys, my only motivation for watching it was it coming down to a choice of staying in my pajamas just a little bit longer, cuddling on the couch, or getting up to start the heavy duty pre-moving cleaning. ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 28, 2004
Pros: Funny and poignant. Offers a wry envisioning of the literary world.
Cons: Slow-paced (not necessarily a con for me).
Summary: Michael Douglas plays a writer named Grady Tripp, who once wrote a good book called The Arsonist's Daughter, and is now dealing with many problems in his life. His editor, played by Robert Downey Jr., has come to town and he is looking for a second ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 18, 2003
Pros: Michael Douglas doesn't do too bad here. Some great music.
Cons: An awful lot of typecasting here.
Summary: I'd heard a lot about this one when it was released. My friends who knew of my secret of writing gushed and told me I just had to see this one. Some years later, I finally did.
Taking the tale of a burnt out writer, Grady Tripp (Michael ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 3, 2003
Pros: nearly everything
Cons: not many. the DVD is truly grand.
Summary: This movie is, by all accounts, a great one. But nearly nobody has heard of it, and that really makes me sad. Maybe my passion for this movie comes from the fact that it takes place in Pittsburgh -- it's near where I live, I enjoy pointing out places I ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 8, 2003
Pros: The big trunk. Diverse age groups. Bob Dylan.
Cons: Hannah’s attraction to Grady.
Summary: An account of aging author Grady Tripp (Michael Douglas) who has managed to turn out one hit novel but can’t seem to recreate the magic on his second time around. It’s been seven years since the first and he is in the midst of attempting a ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 5, 2002
Pros: the comedy is great, very dark, so true to life's little problems.
Cons: none really,
Summary: I found "Wonder Boys" to be a refreshingly dark comedy that made me appreciate the job of a writer. It is so funny because this guy's life is like the worst parts of anyone's day all put together. The acting is great, I highly recommend that you get ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 5, 2002
Pros: Fine acting all around, I'm usually a sucker for movies about writers
Cons: Too much weirdness, not enough reality, useless voice over narration in first half
Summary: “Wonder Boys” purports to take place at a small university in Pittsburgh. Whatever. I’d have an easier time believing it took place on Mars, inhabited by a strange sub-species of humanity that has been lobotomized of any sense of sanity. Every ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 10, 2002
Pros: well acted, directed and scripted
Cons: a bit heavy on the drugs
Summary: I've enjoyed Michael Douglas for a long time - from his television days on Streets of San Francisco where most of what he had to offer was chiseled good looks and a butt-chin like his dad's to his current movie making where he actually shows that he is ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 9, 2002
Pros: Everything I had to say, I said in my review.
Cons: Everything I had to say, I said in my review.
Summary: I just finished scrubbing and polishing up the Cannes with my kid sister. My grandmammy and grandpappy are coming to visit. I ask her," Did you ever hear of dismemberment?" A shake of the head. "It's a very peculiar disease that old people get. Their ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 3, 2002
Pros: All the performances, the script, the directing, and the pacing
Cons: Not a one
Summary: After seeing a great film, one can only fully appreciate its brilliance after time and dissection. Many great films seem superior at face value and then are understood to be even better after time. Curtis Hanson’s (L.A. Confidential) new movie Wonder ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 1, 2002
Pros: Fine performances and story lines
Cons: Not exactly politically correct
Summary: Wonder Boys, the 2000 release starring Michael Douglas and Frances McDormand, has an unusual history. In its original release, it did poorly and quickly disappeared. Those involved with the movie, believed in its appeal, and convinced the studio ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 21, 2001
Pros: Great cast with a quirky sense of humor.
Cons: Requires a patient audience since it needs a build.
Summary: Wonder Boys is one of those rare Hollywood movies that comes along and makes you wonder why the movie industry actually made it. Not because it's bad, mind you, but because it's just so well crafted and doesn't pander to the "Independence Day"-oriented ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 13, 2001
Pros: Curtis Hanson's best film. An east coast literary author's novel put to celluloid.
Cons: The winter scenes make me cold and pink robes are just creepy.
Summary: Grady Tripp’s (Michael Douglas) been cursed with success. How can anyone be cursed with success, you may ask? Ask Grady.
For starters he’s a wonder boy. His first novel was a critical triumph awarded accolades o’plenty. Success has ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 16, 2001
Pros: Uniformly excellent performances, led by an astounding anti-star turn by Michael Douglas
Cons: Meandering narrative may be too slow for some viewers.
Summary: Grady Tripp (Michael Douglas) is having a bad weekend. His wife has left him. His mistress (Frances McDormand), the chancellor of the school where he teaches, is pregnant. His student boarder, Hannah (Katie Holmes), has a crush on him. His prize ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 15, 2001
Pros: screenplay, direction, acting and overall feel are all right on the mark.
Cons: I can't think of any.
Summary: Here's the deal - I was going to make the object of my next epinion Danny Boyle's _The Beach_... until I realized, that would involve spending far too much time thinking about a movie which I really, really hate. So instead I am going to gratuitously ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 15, 2001
Pros: Great movie, inventive story and characters. A joy to watch.
Cons: NONE
Summary: Just go watch this movie its so good that if your reading this and haven’t seen it I want to beg you to see it, plead with you go see it, you are really missing out not seeing it. This movie has everything you could possibly ask for and which recent ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 11, 2001
Pros: The Best Movie of 2000!! Hands Down......
Cons: Damn the Academy!
Summary: Maybe I'm nostalgic already for my college days, but "Wonder Boys" makes me wish I were a student all over again...
As much as college is supposed to be a positive experience, one has to go through many hurdles throughout 4 or more years to reap the ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 9, 2001
Pros: Terrific performances by all involved; Quirky, charming and intelligent
Cons: No obvious ones
Summary: A Quirky Little Gem
Every once-in-a-while you unearth a perfectly odd, perfectly satisfying film from the bowels of Blockbuster. I can think of a couple of great little films that fit that description that we've seen in the last few ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 4, 2001
Pros: Great cast, wonderful dialogue, surprisingly engrossing
Cons: Bogs a little until you pick up the beat
Summary: I was hooked on this movie as the opening song blasted from the upright speakers! Bob Dylan! Takes me back...and since my first college was in a small town near Pittsburgh, the whole movie became so familiar it was almost like being there! How could I ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 30, 2001
Pros: Great story, captures authors very well, consistant language, excellent characters.
Cons: Can't think of anything.
Summary: Wonder Boys is probably a definitive dark comedy. You won't find anything even remotely touching upon the sledgehammer like comedy of Adam Sandler, though if it comes in threes, even this type of comedy can be funny. Instead we get the stiletto like wit ... read more
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Release Date: 2001-08-07, Rating: R (Restricted)
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