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112 minutes
Rated: R
Country: US
Studio: Paramount
Cast: Michael Douglas, Tobey
Maguire, Frances McDormand, Robert
Downey, Jr., Katie Holmes, Rip Torn,
Richard Thomas, Philip Bosco
Director: Curtis Hanson
Screenwriter: Steven Kloves |
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On the inaugural day of his
university's literary festival,
Grady Tripp's third wife leaves him,
and his mistress, university
chancellor Sara Gaskell (Frances
McDormand), announces that she's
pregnant with their child. To
further complicate matters, Grady's
reckless gay editor, Terry Crabtree
(Robert Downey Jr.), desperate to
revive his flaccid career, arrives
to pick up Grady's far-from-finished
seven-years-in-the-making follow-up
to his critically acclaimed first
book. As if that weren't enough to
keep him reeling, Grady soon becomes
an unwilling accomplice to a canine
homicide and the heist of a rare
jacket once worn by Marilyn Monroe,
both committed by his brightest
student--the languid, slightly
pathological James Leer (Tobey
Maguire), who also happens to be
gay. Dressed in a ratty pink
bathrobe and driving a stolen car
with a dead dog in the trunk, Grady
must now find a way to return
Marilyn's coat, write the great
American novel, nurture James's
literary talents, discourage the
advances of an amorous coed (Katie
Holmes), avoid the wrath of a tiny
James Brown look-alike (Richard
Knox), and reconcile with Sara...all
before the weekend is over. Based on
the book by Michael Chabon. |
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