Feb 22, 2000
111 min
Full-HD

Wonder Boys (2000)

Grady 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.

Category

Comedy Drama

Country

Germany Japan United Kingdom United States of America

Companies

Paramount Mutual Film Company Scott Rudin Productions Curtis Hanson Productions BBC Marubeni TOHO-TOWA Tele München MFF Feature Film Productions

Michael Douglas

Grady Tripp

Tobey Maguire

James Leer

Frances McDormand

Sara Gaskell

Robert Downey Jr.

Terry Crabtree

Katie Holmes

Hannah Green

Rip Torn

Q

Richard Knox

Vernon Hardapple

Jane Adams

Oola

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