An Unfinished novel, a stolen car, a murdered pet an unstable student, a fed wife, a pregnant lover. It's safe to say that Grady Tripp has a number of issues to deal with weekend. Grady is a 50-ish years English professor who hasn't had a thing published in years not  since he wrote his award winning  Great  American Novel 7 years ago. Its 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 © 2000 Paramount Pictures 

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Curtis Hanson

Michael Chabon - novel 
Steven Kloves   - script

Drama / Comedy

1hr 48min

Rated R for language and drug content.

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score = 65
65-This movie lacked the drive of Douglas's Wall St or American President.It was Mr McGoo the writer.Always a new problem to leap but no comic relief,sentiment,or rush.Mash potatos w/o the salt.