Wonder Boys
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Short description
Grady Tripp is an English professor whose life has stalled. His celebrated first novel appeared years ago, and the long-promised second one remains unfinished. Over a single chaotic weekend, his wife leaves him, his editor arrives demanding the manuscript, and he becomes entangled with James Leer, a gifted but troubled student, while also navigating an affair with the university chancellor, who is pregnant and married to his superior. A series of mishaps, including a stolen car and a dead dog, sends the weekend further off course.
Wonder Boys was directed by Curtis Hanson, the eighth of the thirteen films he directed, following L.A. Confidential and preceding 8 Mile. Steve Kloves wrote the screenplay, and Hanson produced with Scott Rudin. Michael Douglas plays Grady, with Tobey Maguire as James, Frances McDormand as Sara Gaskell, Robert Downey Jr. as the editor Terry Crabtree, Katie Holmes and Rip Torn among the credited cast of thirty-nine.
Released in 2000, the film runs 107 minutes and mixes comedy with drama. It had a budget of 55 million dollars and took about 33 million worldwide, a shortfall against its cost. On IMDb it holds 7.2 from roughly 69,000 votes, and on TMDB 6.8 from a much smaller sample. A critics' rating of 7.7 from 123 reviews places it slightly above the audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- James also mentions that actress Carol Landis overdosed on pills, but can't remember when it happened. Landis committed suicide on July 5, 1948.
- The sporting goods store in the film is actually a bowling alley where the Farrelly brothers filmed their movie "Kingpin" (1996).
- James Leer describes paradise as one large greenhouse. This is a reference to John Boorman’s film "Zardoz" (1974), in which the inhabitants of a utopian society wore white robes and lived in crystal houses.
- The manuscript that Grady pulled from James’ backpack is actually the handwritten opening of Michael Chabon’s novel "Mysteries of Pittsburgh".
- The filming proceeded sequentially, scene by scene – as they appear in the film.
- On James's table are books – Albert Camus' "The Plague," Truman Capote's "Answered Prayers," and Kenneth Anger's "Hollywood Babylon."
- James contemplates the suicide of actor Joseph Saunders. Later, footage of Saunders from the film "The Picture of Dorian Gray" (1945) flashes on television.
- The list of famous suicides is a list compiled by Kenneth Anger in his book "Hollywood Babylon".
- Among the guests at the head of the English department’s house, you can spot writer James Ellroy. Ellroy is the author of "L.A. Confidential", which Curtis Hanson adapted into a film of the same name in 1997.
- James states that his parents live in the town of Carvel. This is a fictional town where Andy Hardy and his family, the heroes of a popular 1930-40s series, lived.
- Monroe's jacket is hidden in a locked cabinet, which can be opened by entering the code 5641. This refers to the 56 winning games of baseball player Joe DiMaggio, one of Marilyn Monroe's husbands, and 41, i.e., 1941, the year it happened.
- One of the bridges of Pittsburgh appears in all the key scenes of the film.
- Most of the scenes were filmed at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
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