The Paper Chase (1973)

No Description Available
No Track Information Available
Media Type: DVD
Artist: HOUSEMAN/BOTTOMS/WAGNER
Title: PAPER CHASE
Street Release Date: 09/05/2006
Domestic
Genre: DRAMA Product Description

Strictly for undergraduates and lawyers

Some intelligent youngsters study law. Not just anywhere, no, but in Harvard!! This movie tells a coming of age story that made me feel rather uncomfortable. The reason: bright kids are depicted as snooty and the same time impressionable. Their being undergraduates is a stage they are going through, but the thought about where they were headed made my hairs stand on end. They do not seem to have a shred of idealism left at the start (could be a reason to study law, theoretically) and it does not look like they will get it back the rest of their lives. They try to impress a pompous lecturer whose sole purpose seems to consist in intimidating undergraduates. The main character beds the lecturer's daughter who, besides, seems to do nothing but wait for her divorce to get through - her dad's handling it, "of course". The movie is beautiful, but the world in it rather ugly. Strangely, the only likeable person in it is the wife of the most interesting and best constructed character of the movie, the undergraduate with a photographic memory who is intelligent enough to know that he will not make the grade in Harvard. Non lawyers will not like lawyers more after having seen this movie. July 2, 2008

Almost accurate...but

This is a great movie, and gives a realistic portrayal about life in law school. It touches on everything: the pressure to succeed; what students you can trust and what others to run like hell from; and, of course, the professor everyone fears. My Kingsfield (or Perini from the book One L) was in Constitutional Law.

The one scene I found plainly unbelievable was the finale where Hart folds his grades into a paper airplane without looking at them. That just doesn't happen. If nothing else, the typical law student HAS to know how he did after going through what he went through during the year.

That said, however, this is still a great movie. June 15, 2008

Paper Chase - movie

The movie was good, but not as good as the series. I can't wait until the show comes out on DVD May 12, 2008

Unbox problem! ???

I couldn't stop and restart, or fast forward, or drag the slider ahead with this Unbox version. Other Unbox movies/TV shows on my PC were okay doing this. It would hang and I would need to drag the slider to the beginning. Pretty much the same with using Windows Media Player (which Unbox is based on) to play directly.

Did you know the Unbox people can reach out and delete your files, rename them, and presumably retrieve copies of logs? January 25, 2008

its really about chasing little pieces of paper not the professors

You overachievers- chasing papers that will instantiate you. Its an endless cycle but they dont mean anything. Thats what this film is about. Not professors, not kingsfield, not the love interest and not even harvard. Marriage papers, diplomas, grades are all meaningless papers that when you know you can have them, and know how to achieve them, suddenly dont mean anything. One of the best films ever January 9, 2008

More reviews at Amazon.com ...