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The Paper Chase is a american film of genre Drama directed by James Bridges released in USA on 16 october 1973 with Timothy Bottoms
The Paper Chase (1973)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 16 october 1973
Length 1h51
Directed by James Bridges
OriginUSA
Themes Films about education
Rating71%
The Paper Chase is a 1973 film starring Timothy Bottoms, Lindsay Wagner, and John Houseman, directed by James Bridges.
Based on John Jay Osborn, Jr.'s 1970 novel, The Paper Chase, it tells the story of James Hart, a first-year law student at Harvard Law School, his experiences with Professor Charles Kingsfield (played by Houseman in an Academy Award-winning performance), a brilliant, demanding contract law instructor, and Hart's relationship with Kingsfield's daughter. Houseman later reprised his role in a TV series of the same name that lasted four seasons.
Synopsis
James Hart (Timothy Bottoms) starts his first year at Harvard Law School in a very bad way. In his contract law course with Professor Charles W. Kingsfield Jr. (John Houseman), he assumes the first class will be an outline of the course. When Kingsfield immediately delves into the material using the Socratic method and asks Hart the first question, he is totally unprepared and feels so utterly humiliated that, after class, he throws up in the bathroom.Actors
Timothy Bottoms
(James T. Hart)
Lindsay Wagner
(Susan Fields)
John Houseman
(Charles W. Kingsfield Jr.)
James Naughton
(Kevin Brooks)
Graham Beckel
(Franklin Ford III)
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