The Paper Chase (1973) [w/Commentary]

Director: James Bridges
Writers: John Jay Osborn Jr. (novel), James Bridges (screenplay)
Stars: Timothy Bottoms, Lindsay Wagner, John Houseman

As a first-year law student at Harvard, James Hart (Timothy Bottoms) knows he's got his work cut out for him. But things get harder than he anticipated when he runs afoul of the school's dreaded contracts professor, Charles W. Kingsfield Jr. (John Houseman). Wry and imposing, Kingsfield drives many of the lesser students to drop out, but James endures and, as if begging for more trouble, begins dating the professor's daughter, Susan (Lindsay Wagner).



Audio Commentary by Producer Robert C. Thompson

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