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Title: Really dull
Review: I love the actors in this movie and was very excited to watch it. Unfortunately I found the plot dull. Maybe it was too "deep" for me. I thought the Michael Douglas Katie Holms student teacher thing would be more of a factor... but it was mostly about the Michael Douglas character (a successful writer who's teaching at a school and hasn't published a book in a long time) trying to help a very dark student writer (Tobey McGuire) who is very manipulative... Michael Douglas's publisher (Robert downey) shows up and is somewhat entertaining... but the relationships between the characters were just too odd for me to relate to. All the characters had such severe character flaws that they were just depressing to watch... there was no hero or heroine or any character I could remotely relate to. An aspiring writer might like this movie, but it was too strange for me.
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