Wonder Boys
Undependable. Unpredictable. Unforgettable.
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' 7 years ago.This weekend proves even worse than he could imagine as he finds himself reeling from one misadventure to another in the company of a new wonder boy author.
- Director
- Curtis Hanson
- Signature
- Craft · Humour · Drama
- Worldwide
- $33M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
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Movie DNA
How Wonder Boys actually feels to watch, measured on the twelve traits our editors track across every Nutevio title.
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Story overview
What It's About
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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' 7 years ago. This weekend proves even worse than he could imagine as he finds himself reeling from one misadventure to another in the company of a new wonder boy author.
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The numbers
Box Office & Release
Wonder Boys returned 1.0× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $35M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $33M
- Release date
- Feb 22, 2000
- Runtime
- 1h 47m
- MPAA rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- Germany, United Kingdom
Figures from the verified production record. Fields we cannot source are left blank rather than estimated.
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