![]() Walter's wife, Sara ( Frances McDormand), is the chancellor. His boss is Walter Gaskell ( Richard Thomas), the head of the English department. ![]() His wife (we never see her) has just left him. "Wonder Boys" follows him around a Pittsburgh campus in winter during a literary festival, as characters drift in and out of focus on his emotional viewfinder. He is a boy wonder long past his sell-by date, a 50-ish English professor named Grady Tripp who wrote a good novel seven years ago, and now, everyone believes, has writer's block. It is his best performance in years, muted, gentle and wondering. Michael Douglas plays a character like that. It is accurate, not because it captures intellectual debate or campus politics, but because it knows two things: (1) Students come and go, but the faculty actually lives there, and (2) many faculty members stay stuck in graduate-student mode for decades. ![]() ![]() "Wonder Boys" is the most accurate movie about campus life that I can remember. ![]()
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