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MPAA Rating: PG Content Advisory: Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Adult Language Movie Release: 1973 DVD Release: 06/03/2003 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV Audio Tracks: English, French, Spanish Subtitles: English, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 52 mins Studio: 20th Century Fox Members Wishing: 6 Genres: Drama, Coming-of-Age, Ensemble Film

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

Timothy Bottoms - Hart
Lindsay Wagner - Susan
John Houseman - Kingsfield
Graham Beckel - Ford
Edward Herrmann - Anderson

A dedicated Harvard Law School student's higher education is endlessly complicated when he makes an adversary in the form of the toughest professor on campus in this acclaimed film based on the novel by author John Jay Osborn Jr. The feature is presented in 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen, with accompanying audio rendered in English Dolby Digital Stereo. In addition to alternate English, Spanish, and French Dolby Digital Mono tracks, this disc offers optional English and Spanish subtitles. Bonus features include audio commentary by producer Robert C. Thompson. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide