Professor Grady Tripp (Michael Douglas) is a novelist who teaches creative writing at an unnamed Pittsburgh university (the movie was shot chiefly in and around Carnegie Mellon University). He is having an affair with the university chancellor, Sara Gaskell (Frances McDormand), whose husband, Walter, is the chairman of the English department in which Grady is a professor. Grady's third wife, Emily, has just left him, and he has failed to repeat the grand success of his first novel, published years earlier. He continues to labor on a second novel, but the more he tries to finish it the less able he finds himself to invent a satisfactory ending - the book runs to over two and a half thousand pages and is still far from finished. He spends his free time smoking marijuana.

• Michael Douglas
• Robert Downey, Jr.
• Frances McDormand
• Rip Torn
• Katie Holmes
• Tobey Maguire
• Robert Downey Jr

Genres:

Comedy, Drama

Release date:

2000-02-25

External links:

Wonder Boys at IMDB Wonder Boys at Wikipedia