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Overview

User Rating:
7.5/10   29,663 votes
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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Michael Chabon (novel)
Steve Kloves (screenplay)
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Release Date:
25 February 2000 (USA) more
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Tagline:
Undependable. Unpredictable. Unforgettable.
Plot:
An English Professor tries to deal with his wife leaving him, the arrival of his editor who has been waiting for his book for seven years, and the various problems that his friends and associates involve him in. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
Won Oscar. Another 14 wins & 32 nominations more
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(56 articles)
Decade in Review: 2000 Top Ten
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10 Most Overrated Young Actors
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User Comments:
A Brilliant Film more (313 total)
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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Michael Douglas ... Prof. Grady Tripp

Tobey Maguire ... James Leer

Frances McDormand ... Dean Sara Gaskell

Robert Downey Jr. ... Terry Crabtree

Katie Holmes ... Hannah Green

Rip Torn ... Quentin 'Q' Morewood
Richard Knox ... Vernon Hardapple
Jane Adams ... Oola

Michael Cavadias ... Miss Antonia 'Tony' Sloviak
Richard Thomas ... Walter Gaskell

Alan Tudyk ... Sam Traxler
Philip Bosco ... Emily's Father
George Grizzard ... Fred Leer

Kelly Bishop ... Amanda Leer
Bill Velin ... Officer Pupcik
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MPAA:
Rated R for language and drug content.
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111 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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In the theatrical version James Leer included Alan Ladd's death in his list of celebrity suicides. After complaints from Ladd's family, Paramount removed the offending line in all future releases of the film, including home video. VHS and DVD releases carry a disclaimer, shown before the feature, warning that the film has been edited for content. more
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Continuity: The first time James smokes pot in Tripp's car, in one shot the joint is close to his mouth and when the camera cuts in for a close-up the joint is farther away. more
Quotes:
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Grady Tripp: "The young girl sat perfectly still in the confessional listening to her father's boots scrape like chalk on the ancient steps of the church, then grow faint, then disappear altogether. She could sense the priest beyond the grate...” On that particular Friday afternoon, last February, I was reading a story to my Advanced Writers' Workshop by one James Leer, Junior Lit major and sole inhabitant of his own gloomy gulag.
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Referenced in Sense Memory (2006) more
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Need Your Love So Bad more

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25 out of 27 people found the following comment useful.
A Brilliant Film, 30 January 2005
10/10
Author: RobertF87 from Scotland

I really love this film. Based on a novel by Michael Chabron, the film is set in a university over the course of a week-end long writing festival. The story concerns Professor Grady Tripp (Michael Douglas) who's first novel was a huge success and has been struggling with the follow-up novel for years. When the film begins, Grady's young wife has just left him and his lover (who is married to the head of the English Department) is pregnant. Also, Grady's editor (Robert Downey Jr.) has arrived to see his (still unfinished) novel. To add to Grady's woes he has to cope with a brilliant, but deeply odd, student (Tobey Maguire).

The film has some very strong and witty dialogue, and benefits from great performances all around. Probably writers and aspiring writers will like this film for it's portrayal of the literary life. Anyone though will enjoy the humour, heart and fun of this inspirational movie.

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