Directed by:
Curtis HansonScreenplay:
Steve KlovesCinematography:
Dante SpinottiComposer:
Christopher YoungCast:
Michael Douglas, Tobey Maguire, Frances McDormand, Robert Downey Jr., Katie Holmes, Rip Torn, Richard Thomas, Alan Tudyk, Philip Bosco, Kelly Bishop (more)Plots(1)
A college professor who's been divorced three times and hasn't been able to overcome writer's block, gets his boss's wife, the college chancellor, pregnant. (official distributor synopsis)
Reviews (1)
A film in which formally everything works as it should, yet it didn't get close to my heart. Douglas's deliciously played stoner professor Tripp is a thoroughly likeable character, as is the setting; even the cloudy weather aptly corresponds with Tripp's feelings, and some situations are hilariously absurd, but plot-wise it is just average. In the same way that editor Crabtree "improvises" at the end of the film, it seems to me that the screenwriter improvises at times to make his child at least a little more interesting.
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