Wonderboys

ChildCare Action Project: Christian Analysis of American Culture (CAP)

SUMMARY / COMMENTARY:

*Wonder Boys* (R) -- LOTS of drug use.

In a story of an aging drug-saturated professor in an adulterous relationship with his chancellor (who is pregnant with his child), a teen student is introduced to drugs, crime, adultery, booze, and homosexuality.

Grady Tripp (Michael Douglas), English professor and ex-hippie tires to recapture glory from his first successful novel by writing another one of 2561 pages. And intermixed into the fray of ill-defined trips to cinematic nowhere is a quite attractive and overly affectionate room-renter student of his, Hannah Greene (Katie Holmes), a quite morbid student of his James Leer (Tobey Maguire) obsessed with people who have committed suicide, and a quite blind persnickety pooch with a single-minded fixation to get Tripp.