Prof Grady Tripp (Michael Douglas) once wrote a great, award winning novel; but now, at 50
odd, he is having a mid obsession turning-point thrust upon him as his wife leaves him, his mistress,
Sara Gaskell [Chancellor of the University] (Frances McDormand) tells him she’s fraught,
and his brightest writing student, James Leer (Tobey Macguire) goes off the rails.
Meanwhile, his weirdie editor, Terry Crabtree (Robert Downey jnr) is in community for the
annual Wordfest and is pressing Tripp in spite of the manuscript of his next publication - which Tripp
has managed not to finish representing years.
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