Wonder Boys

Set in a college, a writing teacher and author struggles to come to terms with his inability to produce a worthy followup to his first bestseller. He helps out one of his best students, and tensions increase as he tries to get the kid out of a legal mess while dealing with the fact that the boy has written his first novel, and it's good...

111 minutes.
No persons under 16 .
Comedy, Drama, Male conflict & bonding

Oh fame! how fickle and fay thou art...

Credits

Cast	Michael Douglas, Tobey Maguire, Frances McDormand, Robert Downey Jr, Katie Holmes, Rip Torn
Director	Curtis Hanson
Screenplay	Steven Kloves, from the novel by Michael Chabon
Music	Christopher Young, Bob Dylan
Cinematography	Dante Spinotti
Sound formats	Dolby Digital, DTS
Soundtrack	Available
Made in	2000
Produced by	BBC, Curtis Hanson Productions, MFF, Marubeni, Mutual Film Company, Paramount Pictures, Scott Rudin Productions, TMG, Toho-Towa

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Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
What the Critics say
Movies for Africa Ian Douglas	10
Cape Argus Gary van Dyk	10
The Cape Times Gordon Glyn-Jones	15
The Star Janine Walker	18
Die Burger Herman Wasserman	15
Sunday Times Barry Ronge	15
Beeld Marius Jooste	12
SA City Life Tony Jackman	15
SAfm Screen & Co Alan Swerdlow	15
eye Weekly Alex Patterson	15
Box Office Mike Kerrigan	15
Rough Cut Sarah Raskin	16
Total Film Kevin Harley	10
Film Review James Mottram	15
What the People say
Internet 1459 Netizens	15
Average .. 70%	14

Visitor Comments

Ian Douglas: I see my opinion differs from that of the overseas critics, so maybe I missed something. The storyline is too in love with its environment, and loses sight of where it wants to go. Some good performances though.

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Wonder Boys

Credits

Ratings

What the Critics say

What the People say

Average .. 70%

Visitor Comments