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Release Date: 1973

Cast: Blair Brown, David Clennon, Edward Herrmann, Lindsay Wagner, Regina Baff, Graham Beckel, Bob Lydiard, Lenny Baker, James Naughton, Timothy Bottoms, Craig Richard Nelson, John Houseman

Categories: Movies, Ensemble Film, Coming of age, Film adaptation, Legal drama, Romantic drama, Romance Film

The Paper Chase is a 1973 film starring Timothy Bottoms, Lindsay Wagner, and John Houseman and directed by James Bridges. Based on John Jay Osborn, Jr.'s 1970 novel, The Paper Chase, the film tells the story of Hart, a first-year law student at Harvard Law School, and his experiences with Professor Charles Kingsfield (played by John Houseman), the brilliant, demanding contracts instructor whom he both idolizes and finds incredibly intimidating. Houseman later reprised his role in a TV series of the same name that lasted four seasons. Expecting only the basic pressures of attending Harvard... MORE

The Paper Chase is a 1973 film starring Timothy Bottoms, Lindsay Wagner, and John Houseman and directed by James Bridges. Based on John Jay Osborn, Jr.'s 1970 novel, The Paper Chase, the film tells the story of Hart, a first-year law student at Harvard Law School, and his experiences with Professor Charles Kingsfield (played by John Houseman), the brilliant, demanding contracts instructor whom he both idolizes and finds incredibly intimidating. Houseman later reprised his role in a TV series of the same name that lasted four seasons. Expecting only the basic pressures of attending Harvard Law School, a serious, hard-working student named James Hart (Timothy Bottoms), a recent graduate of the University of Minnesota, finds himself the fearful adversary of the school's most imperious, sardonic contracts professor, Charles W. Kingsfield Jr. (John Houseman). Their relationship grows even more complex when the young man discovers that the woman he is dating, Susan Fields (Lindsay Wagner), is his professor's daughter. Graham Beckel, Edward Herrmann, and James Naughton co-star as other law students. The film is an extremely faithful adaptation of the novel, but it adds two revelations not LESS