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The Paper Chase
Directed by
James Bridges
PG
1973
1h 53m
Comedy
,
Drama
7.2
78%
72%
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A first-year law student at Harvard Law School struggles with balancing his coursework and a woman, unaware that she has a connection that affects their relationship.
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Cast of The Paper Chase
Timothy Bottoms
James T. Hart
Lindsay Wagner
Susan Fields
John Houseman
Charles W. Kingsfield Jr.
Graham Beckel
Franklin Ford III
James Naughton
Kevin Brooks
Edward Herrmann
Thomas Craig Anderson
Craig Richard Nelson
Willis Bell
Robert Lydiard
O'Connor
Lenny Baker
William Moss
David Clennon
Toombs
Regina Baff
Asheley Brooks
Irma Hurley
Mrs. Weasal
Bill Moher
Philip Fields
Blair Brown
Miss Farranti
Richard Whelan
Pruit
Alan Kwinter
Sanders
Nicholas Olah
Knight
David B. Johns
Fisher
Tony Silverthorne
Hotel Manager
John Bethune
Hotel Clerk
Jan Campbell
1st Hotel Maid
Dora Dainton
2nd Hotel Maid
Ronald Mlodzik
Law Student (uncredited)
The Paper Chase Ratings & Reviews
Filmcritic.com
Christopher Null
Houseman owns you whenever he's on camera.
New York Times
Vincent Canby
By the end it has melted into a blob of clichs.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Houseman is able to project subtleties of character even while appearing stiff and unrelenting; it's a performance of Academy Award quality, and resulted in an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.
Kansas City Kansan
Steve Crum
Frightening drama of life in law school. Houseman is terrific.
eFilmCritic.com
Scott Weinberg
Solid (if dated) college-years drama.
Variety
Variety Staff
The Paper Chase has some great performances, literate screenwriting, sensitive direction and handsome production.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
James Bridges manages to do a fair job with the semihokey material.
Backseat Mafia
Rob Aldam
An impressive American drama which delves into the competitive and stressful world of academia.
Reel Film Reviews
David Nusair
...a fairly routine drama that never feels as though it's building to anything significant or even interesting...
The New Yorker
Pauline Kael
The Paper Chase isn't a terrible movie, but its preconceptions are all wrong: it's about an un-situation and un-people.
Los Angeles Free Press
Dick Lochte
The love-hate relationship between student and teacher are all captured with splendid accuracy.
Common Sense Media
S. Jhoanna Robledo
The love of learning is tops in classic law school tale.
Esquire Magazine
John Simon
Back in 1926, Virginia Woolf wrote that at the movies, "as smoke pours from Vesuvius, we should be able to see thought in its wildness, in its beauty, in its oddity..." The Paper Chase fails to make thought visible.
TV Guide
Essentially, this is a military school plot with a change of venue.
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