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  • Details: 2000, Rest of the world, USA, Cert 15, 112 mins, Drama, Dir: Curtis Hanson

    With: Frances McDormand, Katie Holmes, Michael Douglas, Robert Downey Jr., Tobey Maguire

    Summary: College professor and author Grady Tripp (Douglas) has been working on the follow-up to his acclaimed first novel for seven years, and counting. His wife's just left him, and he's having an affair with the chancellor of his college, who's also the wife of a colleague. He's also developed a complex about one of his students (Maguire), a suicidal undergraduate and literary wunderkind.

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