Written by Michael Chabon, Steven KlovesDirected by Curtis HansonRunning Time: 112 minutes (approx)Production Year: 2000Rating: 18 CertificateProduction Country: UK/Germany/USA/JapanFilmed in ColourThrice-wed Grady Tripp (Michael Douglas), is a college professor come writer who lives in Pittsburgh and is suffering from a severe case of writer's block. In fact he hasn't written anything since his award winning Great American Novel 7 years previously. Not only is he struggling with this trauma he has also managed to get Sara Gaskell (Frances McDormand), the chancellor, pregnant. His wife is fed-up to the back teeth with him. In the meantime, he and a college student, James Leer (Tobey Maguire) are trying to find a rare jacket once owned by Marilyn Monroe, and a college girl, Hannah Green (Katie Holmes) boarding with Grady has a bit of a crush on him. It's hardly surprising, then, that his college's annual literary festival fills the former wonder boy with more than his usual quota of self-doubt and anxiety. This festival weekend, however, proves even worse than he could have imagined as he finds himself reeling from one misadventure to another in the company of a new wonder boy, James Leer. He's Grady's most gifted writing student. He's also a fluent liar whose peculiar behaviour launches the professor on apicaresque odyssey of self-discovery. Click to see when Wonder Boys is coming up on TV: UK Cast
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Wonder Boys is a Film programme that first aired in 2000 and has been rated 18. Wonder Boys is a 4 star programme.
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