=============== Images: Promotional Pics DVD Caps E! Behind the Scenes Videos: Movie Trailer - Quicktime: Low (2.9mb) / High (10.4mb) News Page: Wonder Boys News (Updated 3/13/01) Purchase Wonder Boys DVD, video or poster =============== Links: Official Website IMDb Greg's Preview - Yahoo! Movies Reviews: Rotten Tomatoes =============== Synopsis (from Hollywood.com) : An unfinished novel, a stolen car, a murdered pet, an unstable student, a fed-up wife, a pregnant lover--it's safe to say that Grady Tripp has a number of issues to deal with this weekend. 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 seven years ago. 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 behavior launches the professor on a picaresque odyssey of self-discovery. Wonder Boys Cast (Info from IMDb and other sources) : 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 Michael Cavadias: Miss Sloviak Richard Thomas: Walter Gaskell Alan Tudyk: Traxler Philip Bosco: Emily's father George Grizzard: Fred Leer Kelly Bishop: Amanda Leer Director: Curtis Hanson Writing Credits Michael Chabon (novel) Steven Kloves (screenplay) Produced By Curtis Hanson: producer Scott Rudin: producer Adam Schroeder: executive producer Lisa Grundy: executive producer Production Companies Curtis Hanson Productions MFF Feature Film Productions Mutual Film Company Paramount Pictures Scott Rusin Productions U.S. Distributors Paramount Pictures U.S. Theater Release Date: 2/25/2000 U.S. Theater Rerelease Date: 11/8/2000 U.S. DVD Release Date: 3/13/2001 MPAA Rating: R Runtime: 111 minutes Filming Locations: Beaver; Pittsburgh; Rochester; Rostraver Township, Pennsylvania, USA