Rating: PG
Genre:
Drama
Release Date: 06/03/2003
SubTitles: English/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French/Espanol
Sound: DD2/DD1
Run Time: 112 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Adult Language
Distributor/Studio: 20th Century Fox
This filmization of
John Jay Osborn Jr.'s novel
Paper Chase ended up one of the surprise hits of the 1973-74 movie season.
Timothy Bottoms stars as the Minnesotan Hart, a brilliant but naive first-year student at the Harvard Law School. Like most of his fellow aspiring attorneys, Hart is in fearful awe of his demanding, ego-deflating instructor, Professor Kingsfield (
John Houseman). He is not so much intimidated by Kingsfield, however, as to resist falling in love with the professor's pretty daughter (
Lindsay Wagner). An eminent theatrical and film producer,
John Houseman won an Oscar for his first important film role (no, it wasn't his first film role ever; he'd played an unbilled cameo in 1964's
Seven Days in May), launching
Houseman on a latter-day acting career wherein he spent most of his time playing variations of Kingsfield.
Houseman also recreated the role for a
Paper Chase TV series, which first ran on
CBS, then on public television, then on the
Showtime pay cable service.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
