Wonder Boys (2000) 8/10

Starring : Michael Douglas, Tobey Maguire, Frances McDormand, Robert Downey Jr, Katie Holmes
Director : Curtis Hanson
Running Time : 111 mins

College professor Grady Tripp (Douglas) is struggling to finish his follow up novel. It's been seven years since he started it and his editor Terry Crabtree (Downey) is hassling him for a draft to look over. To make life even more difficult, the woman he's having an affair with (McDormand) is pregnant with his child, his much younger third wife Hannah (Holmes) has left him, and to top it off he finds himself stuck on a bizarre roadtrip with one if his students (Maguire) who seems to be a compulsive liar.

This was a very subdued yet fun movie, with both Douglas and Maguire performing beautifully in the lead roles, each managing to keep their character simple yet complicated at the same time. Downey as usual puts in an interesting performance as Douglas's editor, and the remaining supporting cast, though they appear very infrequently, all make this an entertaining journey into the minds of a pothead writer and his fibbing student.

You’ll like this if you liked : Little Miss Sunshine