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Michael Douglas and Tobey Maguire do wonders in this clever dark comedy. Read critic reviews
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Movie Info
Grady (Michael Douglas) 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.
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Rating: R (Language|Drug Content)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Original Language: English
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Director: Curtis Hanson
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Producer: Curtis Hanson, Scott Rudin
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Writer: Michael Chabon, Steve Kloves
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Release Date (Theaters): wide
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Box Office (Gross USA): $19.4M
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Distributor: Paramount Pictures
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Production Co: Marubeni Corporation, Curtis Hanson Productions, Mutual Film Company, Scott Rudin Productions, MFF, Paramount Pictures, BBC
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Sound Mix: Dolby Digital, DTS, Surround
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Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)
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A superb performance from Michael Douglas. Exceedingly enjoyable and well acted. Not sure why I had not seen this until now.
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It's a wonder that so many people enjoyed this film. I found it to be a hodgepodge of rubbish all wrapped up with a silly little soundtrack and grand claims that Douglas had given the performance of a lifestyle. Rubbish!
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I'm not really sure how I felt about this picture. Michael Douglas plays this teacher/writer who is trying to fix his personal problems while finding a way to get his novel published. The Douglas character befriends a young student who is a gifted writer named James Leer played by Tobey McGuire but he is seen as rather dark, lifeless, and an enigma. The film also shows a lot about the campus lifestyle and well to be honest I never went to a university or went to any prestigious seminars, so it was all very alienating to me and overall the film didn't really touched me as I thought it would. The best performance imo goes to Michael Douglas as the teacher/writer Prof. Grady Tripp who is seen as someone going through a crisis in his life, who hasn't gotten out of the hippie life and enjoys blazing a joint or two. Tripp's salvation is his upcoming novel and his mistress (later on woman to be) Sara Gaskell played by Frances McDormand.
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It's perfectly fine. I don't really buy anybody's character though. Michael Douglas, a depressive writer? Tobey Maguire, a psychopath? Katie Holmes, a writing ingenue? No, no, and no.
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