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An unfinished novel, a stolen car, a murdered pet, an unstable student, a fed-up wife, a pregnant lover--it's safe to say that Grady Tripp has a number of issues to deal with this weekend. 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 seven years ago. It's 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.
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| Production Status: |
Released |
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| Logline: |
An over-the-hill writer rediscovers life when he meets a young writing prodigy in his lecture. |
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| Genres: |
Comedy, Drama, Romance and Adaptation |
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| Running Time: |
1 hr. 52 min. |
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| Release Date: |
November 8, 2000 Re-Release; February 23, 2000 NY/LA/CHI |
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| MPAA Rating: |
R for language and drug content. |
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| Distributors: |
Paramount Pictures
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| Production Co.: |
Scott Rudin Productions
MFF Feature Film Productions, BBC (Main Listing), Marubeni, Toho-Towa Company, TeleMunchen Group (TMG)
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| Studios: |
(USA): Paramount Pictures
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| U.S. Box Office: |
$19,389,454 |
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| Filming Locations: |
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Friendship, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Pittsburgh International Airport, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Hill District, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
The Modern Cafe, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Modern Cafe, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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| Produced in: |
United States |
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