Wonder Boys is about characters and interactions; it's about one of our most talented
screenwriters, Steve Kloves (The Fabulous Baker Boys, Flesh and Bone), working at the absolute top of his profession; and it's about a cast so very sublime and dead solid perfect that wondering what will happen
next doesn't drive the film so much as hoping that whatever it is takes its sweet
time: We want these people to stay put.
The
next owners on the dog's tour include a pathologically struggling
screenwriter (Danny DeVito) and a resentful, ailing woman (Ellen Burstyn, brilliant) who wears giant sunglasses to hide the light of truth that she has wasted her
time on Earth.